Doctoral Oral Exams for Oct. 5–9

The Graduate Dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates. All exams will be held via video conferencing. Contact the department for online meeting information.

Final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates are scheduled as follows:

Alexander Ponomareff, Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 1 p.m. Dissertation: “Salvage Media: A Materialist Inquiry into the Limits of Visual, Aural, and Textual Clarity.” Jim Hicks, chr.

Brandon Prickett, Ph.D., Linguistics, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 1 p.m. Dissertation: “Learning Phonology with Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Networks.” Gaja Jarosz and Joe Pater, co-chrs.