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2007 Incoming Graduate Students

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Note: Incoming and prospective graduate students can find useful information on the Resources page in the "About Us" menu, and on the Progress to the Degree page under "Programs."

Nadia Alahmad

Nadia is joining our MA program and will be funded with a Teaching Assistantship. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Birzeit in Israel. She was born in Tanzania, spent her childhood in Russia, then was raised in Jordan and Ukraine. She returned to her father’s homeland, Palestine, at age 17.

Lara Curtis

Lara is joining our PhD program. She received her MA degree from the French Program at UMass at Amherst. Lara’s specialization is French Literature.

Erik Perez

Erik will be funded as a Teaching Assistant. Erik received his BA degree from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez campus. Erik’s specialization will be cross-cultural studies.

Luca Prada Gonzalez

Luca will be funded as a Teaching Assistant by the Translation Center. She joins our MA program in Translation Studies. She received her BA from the University of Oviedo, Spain. Her major was English Philology.

Scott Salus

Scott Salus is joining our MA/PhD program, funded by a Teaching Assistantship. He received his BA in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University in 2005. His interests include, but are not limited to: Corporeal, Post-Structuralist, and Second Wave Feminisms, Queer Theory, African American, Francophone, and Latin American Literatures, Modern Poetics, Surrealism, Postcolonial Studies, Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and Deleuze. He is rigorously devoted to politicizing disciplines; as such, his projects include theorizing oppressions, war, illness, and masculinities. Scott is delighted at the privilege of working with graduate students who come from many places in the world - he learns endlessly from his peers.

Anna Strowe

Anna is joining our PhD program. She received her BA in Italian from Smith College. Her specialization is translation studies.

 

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