Name	Profiles
Sage Anderson	sagejanderson@yahoo.com
Christopher Apap	ccapap@hotmail.com
Margali Armillas-Tisyera	magarmtis@yahoo.com Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, PhD Candidate Received her B.A. in English and Creative Writing from The George Washington University (2005), where her thesis research centered on practices of colonial education and mid-twentieth century Anglophone Caribbean literature. At NYU, Magali has been on the organizing committee for two graduate student conferences: “Making Friendship: Bonds, Boundaries, Becomings” (2006) and “Foreclosure and Forgiveness: Tracing Debt in Literature and Culture (2007). Her M.A. thesis work focused on Lucio V. Mansilla’s Una excursión a los indios ranqueles and theories of travel, heterogeneity in the archive, and the consolidation/contestation of State authority. In the spring of 2007, Magali was awarded the NYU-Cambridge Mainzer fellowship. The fellowship funded a visiting studentship at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, where she began a project on the “travel,” or return, narratives of Flora Tristan and the Condesa de Merlin. Current research interests include: - Gender studies and critical theory - Latin American literature in the 19th century - Writing in/on Africa in the 19th century and 20th century African literatures - Theorizing the archive
Haytham Bahoora	hab224@nyu.edu
Carrie Barker	cqb1344@nyu.edu
Reinelda Baucic	rbaucic@nyc.rr.com, rmb52@cornell.edu
Elizabeth Bearden	ebb216@nyu.edu
Katie Benward	klb280@nyu.edu
Maria Blanco	mdb227@nyu.edu
Linda Bonvini	linda.bonvini@nyu.edu
Michiel Bot	mtb250@nyu.edu
Anna Brigido-Corachan	abc236@nyu.edu
Andre Cardoso	andrecac@uol.com.br, acc236@nyu.edu
Jennifer Cayer	jennifercayer@yahoo.com
Ipek Celik	iac212@nyu.edu Ipek A. Celik received her BA in Political Science and International Relations from Bogazici University (Istanbul) and her MA in Cultural Studies at The Ohio State University. She is a Phd candidate working on her dissertation. Her project explores literary and filmic representations of migration and violence in France, Germany and Greece.
Jieun Chang	giljolsan@hotmail.com
Heather Cleary	hmc236@nyu.edu, hmcleary77@hotmail.com
Lori Cole	lori.cole@nyu.edu
Trudi Connolly	tec217@nyu.edu
Robyn Creswell	rsc249@nyu.edu
Carli Cutchin	carli.cutchin@gmail.com Carli Cutchin comes to NYU with a BA in English literature and a master's degree in theology. Before entering the PhD program in 2007, she worked as a journalist and in university fundraising. Her interests (in their as-yet generalized, amorphous forms) include philosophy and literature; moral philosophies of the 18th and 19th centuries; theory of the novel; British Romanticism; and psychoanalysis. Of late, she is preoccupied with literary and philosophical renderings of the idea of "sympathy."
Igor Czernecki	igorczernecki@gmail.com
Suzanne Daniels	suzannecarol@hotmail.com
Iavora Daraktchieva-Dohn	iavora@nyu.edu
Akiva Daube	ad582@nyu.edu
Brad Engelstein	bengelstein@hotmail.com
Jonathan Fine	jbf248@nyu.edu
Alberto Gabriele	ag356@nyu.edu
Patrick Gallagher	pwg211@nyu.edu
David Georgi	dqg9252@nyu.edu
Belkis Gonzalez	bg242@nyu.edu
Manuel Gonzalez	mg1853@nyu.edu
Bregtje Hartendorf-Wallach	bregtje@creationrebel.com
Kate Hawkins	kh262@nyu.edu
Ellen Xiang He	hexiangmm@hotmail.com, xh230@nyu.edu
Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz	dhs5000@yahoo.com
Nicole Hughes	nth204@nyu.edu
Lucy Ives	lucy.ives@gmail.com B.A. English, Harvard (2003); M.F.A. Poetry, University of Iowa (2005). Lucy Ives' research interests include American, European, and Japanese poetry written after the Second World War and early modern European literature. Her work has appeared in The Colorado Review, Fence, n+1 online, Ploughshares, Verse, and other journals.
RJ Jenkins	rjj223@nyu.edu
Hui Jiang	jiang3hui1@hotmail.com
Birgit Kaiser	bmk214@nyu.edu
Jennifer Kaplan	jk624@nyu.edu
Madu Kaza	mhk4@nyu.edu
Sina Khajeh-Najafi	sqk0606@nyu.edu
Mary Helen Kolisnyk	mqk3971@nyu.edu
Monica Kowinska	mak248@nyu.edu
Anna Krakus	annakrakus@yahoo.com
Micaela Kramer	micakramer@yahoo.com
John Patrick Leary	jp.leary@nyu.edu
Patricia Lopez	pl751@nyu.edu
Aaron Michael Love	aml307@nyu.edu
Daniel Lukes	lukesdnt@hotmail.com
Susan Matthias	sam4749@nyu.edu
Kristy McMorris	km49@nyu.edu
Claudia Mendez Arriaza	claudiama@mac.com
Tara Mendola	taramendola@gmail.com
Melissa Myambo	penga1@rocketmail.com
Soo-Young Nam	syn201@nyu.edu
Brian Norton	Bmn471@aol.com
Lydia Oram	lmo2002@columbia.edu, lmo222@nyu.edu
Anastasiya Osipova	osipova.anastasiya@gmail.com
Fernando Perez	fp323@nyu.edu Fernando Pérez Villalón obtained his licenciatura in Hispanic literature and Linguistics in The Universidad Católica of Santiago, Chile, and then an MA in Comparative Literature in the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has taught in several Chilean universities, published two books of poetry in Spanish (voces versos movimientos, 2003; Pasajes, 2007), numerous translations of poetry from various languages, and is part of the editorial team of Chile-based literary reviews Vértebra and www.letrasenlinea.cl. His current research interests include translation theory, history, and practice; Brazilian concrete poetry, relations between auditory and visual materials in poetry across history, travel literature, and modernism in the Americas.
Yaakov Perry	yaakovperry@yahoo.com
Hugo Pezzini	mono@hugopezzini.com
Katharina Piechocki	knp227@nyu.edu Katharina Natalia Piechocki, PhD. candidate since fall 2005 She holds a M.A. from the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (University of Vienna) as well as from the Department of Comparative Literature (NYU). In her dissertation she is focusing on 15th-century European feasts and public spectacles (mostly in Italy, France, and Poland) where she is exploring the borders and limits of early modern "spectacularity." Katharina is also finishing another doctorate at the University of Vienna entitled "Processus générateurs, productions significatives. Textualité et sexualité de l'opéra baroque en France et en Italie de 1638 à 1674". She has published articles and book chapters on baroque opera and oratorios, as well as on early modern and contemporary French and Italian female writers, in Italian, British, Estonian, German, and Austrian books and journals. Ongoing projects include an article on "The Rhetoric of the Peacock in 16th-century Italy"; "Spectacular Lack: Celebrating the Vanishing Self in 17th-Century Medici Florence"; and an essay collection on "Debt in Literature and Culture", which she is co-editing with colleagues from the CompLit department. She has received various grants and fellowships, most recently the NYU Global Fellowship for NYU-in-Florence (summer 2008). She loves tango and chicken liver paté.
Beata Potocki	bf200@nyu.edu
Raya Raitcheva	rraitcheva@prestel-usa.com
Jen Rappaport	jar9882@nyu.edu
David Ranghelli	david.ranghelli@nyu.edu
Jen Rappaport	jar9882@nyu.edu
Mariano Siskind	ms1365@nyu.edu
Dan Slager	daniel_slager@milkweed.org
Yi Sun	sunyi7907@hotmail.com
Brad Tabas	bradtabas@hotmail.com
Maria Alejandra Uslenghi	mau207@nyu.edu
Carlos Velosodasilva	cv14@nyu.edu
Joshua Vidich	joshuaviditch@hotmail.com
Christopher Vitale	chris962x@aol.com
Sabrina Waldron	sabrina_213@hotmail.com
Pu Wang	pw555@nyu.edu
Erica Weitzman	ericaweitzman@yahoo.com Joined the program in 2004. She received her B.A. in English and French literature from the College of William and Mary (1997); an M.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Boston University (1999); and an M.A. in Liberal Studies from the New School for Social Research at New School University, with the master's thesis: "The Abject Imagination: Studies in the Grotesque" (2003). Participant in the NYU Poetics and Theory program and guest at the Graduiertenkolleg Lebensformen + Lebenswissen at Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). Has taught in France and the United States. Worked in Kosovo from 2000-2001 with the international humanitarian organization Balkan Sunflowers. Has published translations from French and Albanian; a book-length translation of Albanian poetry is forthcoming in Spring 2008. Research interests include: Central and Eastern European literature (particularly pre-1945); theories of sovereignty, right, and the nation-state; theories of irony, comedy, humor, and jokes; contemporary Albanian literature; aesthetics and politics; constructions of the legal subject; philosophies of history; critical theory and hermeneutics; various combinations of all of the above.
Sonia Werner	saw343@nyu.edu; werner.sa@gmail.com
Matthew Wilkins	mjw297@nyu.edu
Lorraine Wong	cmw336@nyu.edu
Daphne Ypsilanti	daphne.ypsilanti@gmail.com