Placement Record of Former Graduate Students
| Name | Ph.D. Received | Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Salo, Anne |
2009 |
TBA |
| Bistue, Belen |
2009 |
Researcher, Centro de Literatura Comparada, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina |
| Nie, Jing |
June 2009 |
TBA |
| Yamamoto, Wendy |
June 2009 |
TBA |
| Christensen, Rune |
March 2009 |
TBA |
| Gong, Haomin |
September 2008 |
Asst. Professor, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Maryland |
| Wing-Paz, Elizabeth | September 2007 |
Berkeley City College, Berkeley, CA | Perez, Vanessa |
March 2007 |
Asst. Professor, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY |
| Matt, Andrew |
December 2006 |
Teaching Fellow, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA |
| Comfort, Kelly | June 2005 |
Asst. Professor of Spanish, Georgia Tech Univ. |
| Trouilloud, Lise-Helene | June 2005 |
Asst. Professor, Cal-Poly Pomona |
| Stuchebrukhov, Olga | September 2004 | Asst. Professor of Russian, UC Davis |
| Zhou, Gang | September 2003 | Asst. Professor of Chinese, Louisiana State Univ. |
| Schmitz, Gabriele | June 2003 | Unknown |
| Wisotsky, Meriel | June 2002 | Part-time Lecturer, Columbia Community College |
| Wiley (Gerbrandt), Amy | June 2002 | Lecturer in the Dept. of English, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo |
| Mi, Jia-yan | June 2002 | Asst. Professor (Tenured), College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey |
| Nielsen, Wendy | September 2001 | Asst Professor of English, Montclair State Univ, Montclair, New Jersey |
| Kaladiouk, Anna | September 2001 | Assoc. Professor, Keene State College, New Hampshire |
| Klimek, Julia | June 2001 | Asst. Professor of English, Coker College, Hartsville, South Carolina |
| Develter, Suzanne | December 2000 | Lecturer, Sacramento City College and part-time Lecturer in COM, UC Davis |
| Abarca, Meredith | December 2000 | Asst. Professor of English, Univ of Texas, El Paso |
| Vincent, Patrick | September 2000 | Professor, Univ of Neufchâtel, Switzerland |
| Shinbrot, Victoria | September 2000 | Asst Professor of Hum, CSU Sacramento |
| Johnson, Erica C. | September 2000 | Asst. Professor of English, Wagner College, Staten Island NY |
| Flury, Angela | September 2000 | Asst. Professor (tenure track), DePauw University, Greencastle, IN |
| Carl, David | June 2000 | Tenured Tutor (Professor) of Humanties, St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Nelson, Julian | September 1999 | Professor of German, Clark College, Vancouver, WA. |
| Clark, Dan | December 1998 | Instructor of English, Riverside Comm College, Moreno Valley |
| Sharkey, Emmet Joe | March 1998 | Assoc. Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, Univ of Washington at Tacoma. |
| Fahey, Mary Frances | June 1997 | Lecturer, American River College, Humanities Lecturer, Sierra College, English Dept. |
| Wager, Jans | June 1997 | Associate Professor, Utah Valley State College, Dept of English & Literature |
| Goldman, Amy | September 1996 | Univ of Memphis in Shenzhen, China (Resident Director of China Program); Asst. Prof, Fudan Univ, Shanghai |
| Fleck, Maria | December 1995 | Lecturer & Coordinator of First-Year Spanish, CA State Univ., San Bernardino, Dept of Foreign Langs |
| Chen, Jian'guo | June 1995 | Asst. Professor, Univ of Delaware, Newark Delaware |
| Walker, Joyce | June 1995 | Instructor (tenured) & English Dept Chair, Everett Comm. College, Dept of English & World Langs |
| Zitelli, Maila | September 1992 | Assoc. Professor, Minot State Univ., German Program |
| Treiber, Jeanette | June 1992 | Evaluation Assosciate, Tobacco Control Evaluation Center, UC Davis. |
| Jen, Jung (Yong, Ren) | June 1991 | Asst. Professor, San Francisco State Univ., Chinese Department (formerly) |
| Simas, Rosa | June 1990 | Asst. Professor, Univ of Azores, Modern Languages & Literature |
| Matthews, Elizabeth | June 1990 | Assoc. Professor, University of N.Arizona, Dept of Comparative Literature |
| Jha, Pabhakara | June 1989 | Unknown |
| Allosso, Salvatore | March 1987 | Continuing Lecturer, UC Davis, Comparative Literature (Retired June 2002) |
| Morrow, Nancy | September 1985 | Continuing Lecturer, UC Davis, English |
Books Published by former Graduate Students
Nation as Invisible Protagonist in Dickens and Dostoevsky: Uncovering Hidden Social Forces within the Text.
Olga Stuchebrukov, 2007.
Other Renaissances: A New Approach to World Literature
Brenda Deen Deen Schildgen (Editor), Sander L. Gilman (Editor), Zhou Gang (Editor), 2006.
Voices in the Kitchen: Views of Food and the World from Working-Class Mexican and Mexican American Women.
Meredith E. Abarca, 2006.
Dames in the Driver's Seat: Rereading Film Noir
Jans B. Wager, 2005
Self-Fashioning and Reflexive Modernity in Modern Chinese Poetry, 1919-1949.
Jia-Yan Mi, 2004.
The Romantic Poetess: European Culture, Politics, and Gender, 1820-1840.
Patrick H. Vincent, 2004.
Home, Maison, Casa: The Politics of Location in Works by Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Erminia Dell'Oro
Erica L. Johnson, 2003.
Dangerous Dames: Women and Representation in the Weimar Street Film and Film Noir.
Jans B. Wager, 1999
Currents of Inquiry: Readings for Academic Writing
Nancy Morrow, Marlene B. Clarke, 1997.
Dreadful Games: The Play of Desire in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Nancy Morrow, 1988.
Circularity and Visions of the New World in William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Osman Lins
Rosa Simas, 1993.
Graduate Student Biographies
Masha Boston
M.A. in Russian Literature and Linguistics from Moscow State University, 2002.
Languages
Russian - English - French
Areas of teaching and research interest
Film studies, particularly American and Russian silent cinema, connections between modernist film and literature, modernist studies. Courses taught: COM 3,4,5,6,7; Russian 3-5, 101 (B,C); Russian Composition 102.
Brian Davisson
B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature with a German minor from North Carolina State University where I also did coursework for an M.A. work before transferring to UC-Davis.
Areas of teaching and research interest
Contemporary narrative from Latin America (particularly Central America) and the Iberian Peninsula, with respect to historiography and the manner in which narratives are read from distinct national perspectives - Critical Theory and Marxism
I have taught courses in introductory and intermediate Spanish, and will be teaching in Comparative Literature for the next few years. I have studied or done research in Vitoria, Spain; Tubingen and Mannheim, Germany and in Costa Rica.
D Dayton
B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, Friends World Program - Long Island University, 2001.
M.A. in Chinese Studies, University of Sydney, Australia, 2006.
Master's Thesis: Chinese Ethnic Minority Poetry in China's Southwest.
Interests
Ethnic Minority / Native literatures in world languages; translation; modern / contemporary Chinese literature; Native American literature in English; 20th century Russian literature; Marxism and Postcolonial theory; the intersection of ethno-poetics and ethno-politics in the Third and Fourth Worlds.
Shawn Doubiago
B.A. in Comparative Literature from the American University of Paris - M.A. in Comparative Literature from San Francisco State University. - Her dissertation entitled, "Writing Wrongs: Representation and Resistance in Twentieth Century Women's Writing on War and Conflict" (in progress) for the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at UC Davis.
Areas of teaching and research interest
The study of French/Francophone and Italian literature. She has studied Arabic. Her designated emphases include; Gender and Women's Studies and Critical Theory, with a special interest in postcolonialism, psychoanalysis (trauma theory), gender, race, aesthetics, and film. She has taught the COM 1-4 course series as well as Humanities courses. Shawn received the 2006-2007 UC Davis Dissertation Year Fellowship, the 2006-2007 UC Davis Humanities Research Grant, and the 2006 Consortium for Women and Research Grant.
Michael Graziano
B.A. in Philosophy and in Asian and Middle-Eastern Studies from Dartmouth College
Languages
English - Japanese - Spanish
Interests
Twentieth-century Japanese, American, and Latin American literature.
Elisabeth Lore
Elisabeth Lore holds a B.A. in Liberal Studies and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from San Francisco State University.
Areas of teaching and research interest
Here at UC Davis, she is currently working on a double PhD in Comparative Literature and French, specializing in French, Caribbean and Multilingual Literatures. Her current Comparative Literature research project explores the role language, literature and music play in racial reconciliation between descendants of those involved in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Her French Department research project attempts to trace the process in which information about the Atlantic Slave Trade was disseminated among the French population between the 18th and 19th centuries and how that process is reflected in the literature of those times.
Giovanna Montenegro
BFA in Photography, San Francisco Art Institute - MA in Comparative Literature, San Francisco State University.
Languages
Spanish - German - French - Italian - Int. Russian
Areas of teaching and research interest
Early twentieth- century prose and lyric from Germany and Latin America focusing on gender, domestic and urban space, as well as social class.
Critical Theory especially psychoanalysis. Transatlantic Avant-Garde encounters between Latin America and Germany, France, Italy, and Russia as evidenced in literature and visual and performing arts.
Confession as genre, particularly memoirs of prostitution.
She is also interested in second language acquisition and the pains of language learning as displayed in multilingual literature and immigration memoirs.
Daphne Potts
B.A. in Art History - B.A. in Comparative Literature from UC Irvine.
Areas of teaching and research interest
My interests include notions of space and time, identity and issues of nationalism, imperialism, colonialism, postcolonialism and spaces of cultural contact, particularly as relates to African literature, film, cultural media, and the African diaspora. I have taught COM 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
Monica Powers Keane
MA in Italian Studies, McGill University, Montreal, 2006. Thesis: Developing a Poetics of Ordinariness: Language, Literature and Communication in Gianni Celati's 1970s Novels. BA in English and Italian Studies, UC Davis, 2003. I also studied for a year at the University of Bologna in Italy with EAP.
Areas of teaching and research interest
My areas of interest and research include Italian and English literature, especially the novella, the development of the novel and translation.
Nick Sanchez
BA in Literature, Claremont Mckenna College, 2001.
Interests
Literature of the Southern Cone; 20th Century US literature; essay and intellectual traditions in the Americas; Marxism in Latin America; the convergence of science, literature, and liberation during the Popular Unity period in Chile.
Christina Schiesari-Van Den Abbeele
BA from San Francisco State University with a major in Theatre Arts 1997; MBA from Sacramento State University, 2002.
Languages
English - French - Italian
Interests
In 2004 Christina began her doctoral candidacy at UC Davis in Performance Studies. Her transfer to Comparative Literature in 2005 coincides with her research interests in Early Modern and 17th century dramatic literature, focusing on gender, class, and the theatre itself as a "revolutionary", cultural phenomenon, and a space (both textual and performative) in which questions of identity are both dramatized and localized. In addition to these research interests, Christina has taught drama and humanities courses, where she enjoys unfolding the intricacies of Shakespeare and other historical dramatists to her students.
Elena Shapiro
B.A. in English & French from Stanford University, 2000 - M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Mills College, 2006.
Languages
English - French - Spanish
Interests
The Romantic novel, depictions of the ineffable, secrecy, apophasis, translation. DE in Critical Theory. Courses taught: COM 2, 3, 4
Publications
Her novel, 13 Rue Thérèse, is forthcoming from Little, Brown.
Zoya Stanchits Popova
Ph.D. from Saint Petersburg State University, 2005.
Languages
Russian - English - Chinese - some German - some Japanese
Interests
My dissertation from Saint Petersburg was written on Modern Chinese Writer Shen Congwen (1902-1978). I studied the 20th century Chinese literature and Influence of Russian Literature on Chinese writers. In 2005 I entered University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Comparative Literature and Humanities. In 2007, I transferred to UC Davis. Currently, I am studying the memories of Soviet Union in works by contemporary Chinese authors.
Natalie Strobach
B.A. in English, Languages and Literature, and Women's Studies from New Mexico State University, 2006.
Undergraduate McNair Thesis: "Decomposed Theory: Cixous' Re-Pairing of the Aporia Between Idea and Theory."
Languages
French - English - German
Areas of teaching and research interest
Natalie's interests center around 20th century French, German, and U.S. Literature and Theory. This includes: The Frankfurt School, feminist theory, authorship, aesthetics, trauma studies, and the representation of the working-class in literature. In particular, she is interested in less traditional theoretical contributions or compositions and their relationship to the working class.
Chris Tong
B.S. in Mathematics, Stanford University, 2001.
M.F.A. in Creative Writing, San Francisco State University.
Languages
Chinese - German - French - English - Beginning Japanese
Interests
Film and architecture in China; poetry and the environment; spatial theory; critical theory; comparative philosophy.
Co-founded the Research Cluster on Space and Spatiality at the Davis Humanities Institute.
Joshua Waggoner
BA Comparative Literature, UC Davis, 2000. MA Humanities and Social Thought, New York University, 2004.
Master's thesis
The connection of irony to trauma in Tasso, Woolf, and Barker.
Languages
Italian - Spanish
Interests
Renaissance Italian Literature and 20th Century British and American Literature emphasizing war literature and trauma theory. Irony and theories of the comic