Graduate Students - PhD

	Peter Beal Peter.Beal@Colorado.edu Peter is planning on exploring the relationship between depictions of landscape in art and literature in the Italian Renaissance. He received his MA in Art History from the University of Colorado. His interests include the Italian Renaissance, Renaissance and Baroque art theory, and the historiography of history and art history.

	Lili Fan Lili.Fan@Colorado.edu A short biography will be posted soon.

	Alex Fobes Alexander.Fobes@Colorado.edu Alex Fobes received his B.A. in English at the University of California at Berkeley and his M.A. in English from the University of New Hampshire. He works in Spanish, French and German. His research interests are Aesthetics, Mimesis, Modernism and the Avant-Garde.

	Sarah Jane Gray Sarah.Gray@colorado.edu A short biography will be posted soon.

	Dragan Ilic Dragan Ilic@Colorado.edu Dragan Ilic received his BA in Literature from the University of Nis, Serbia. His interests include English, Russian, 19th and 20th century novel, 20th century literary theories, mainly Russian Formalism, Deconstruction as well as Marxism and Cultural Materialism. He is interested in the phenomena that are usually described as intertextual or transtextual, particularly in literary parody and its historical, ideological, cultural and intertextual foundations.

	Petra Landfester Petra.Landfester@Colorado.edu A short biography will be posted soon.

	Angela Polidori-Scordo Apolidor@Du.edu Angela Polidori-Scordo received her B.A. in French, Spanish, and Italian from Loretto Heights College. She has an M.A. in Education with an emphasis on Gifted and Talented Education from the University of Denver and an M.A. in twentieth-century Spanish Literature. Her areas of study are nineteenth-century and late sixteenth-century Italian literature and psychoanalytic theory. Her dissertation topic is The Third Woman. Angela is a Senior Adjunct professor at the University of Denver where she co-directs the Italian program.

	Ljudmila Popovich Ljudmila.Labudovic@Colorado.edu Ljudmila Popovich received her B.A. in English Language and Literature in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and her M.A. in English Literature and Film Studies from the University of Colorado at Denver. Her M.A. thesis was titled Cinemagic Realism (Magic Realism in International Cinema). Her areas of study are English/American and Serbo-Croatian Literature with interests in international cinema, women's studies, literary theory, aesthetics and politics.

	Katina Rogers Katina.Rogers@Colorado.edu Katina Rogers received her B.A. in French from Wheaton College and her M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She studies French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. Her areas of interest are experimental literature, postcolonial literatures, modernism and postmodernism.

	Christina Rudosky Christina.Rudosky@Colorado.edu Christina received her MA at the Universite de Paris IV Sorbonne. Her interests are European and French Literature and critical methodologies blending theory and cultural studies.

	Jerilyn Sambrooke Jerilyn.Sambrooke@Colorado.edu Jerilyn is Canadian and comes to the department most recently from Istanbul, Turkey where she taught English Literature at Fatih University. Prior to teaching there, she taught at LCC International University in Klaipeda, Lithuania. Her research interests focus on the intersections of globalization theory and postcolonialism, including how post-communist literature may be read through a postcolonial lens. Jerilyn completed her BA in English at Trinity Western University (Canada) and her MA in Literature, Philosophy, and Religion at the University of Sussex (UK).

	Galina Siarheichyk Galina.Siarheichyk@Colorado.edu A short biography will be posted soon.

	Donna stockton Donna.Stockton@Colorado.edu Donna Stockton received her B.A. in Humanities and her M.A. in Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The focus of her studies is 19th & 20th century British and Scandinavian literature, as well as literary translation. Her foreign languages are Norwegian, Danish and Swedish. Her dissertation will focus on the writings of the 19th century Norwegian feminist Camilla Collett.

	Math Mark Albrey Trafton II Math.Trafton@Colorado.edu Math Trafton received a B.A. in Computer Science, a B.A. and M.A. in Creative Writing, and an M.A. in comparative Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is interested in film, its consequences and limitations. Math teaches Intro to Film at CU and Composition for Colorado Community Colleges Online.

	Tonja Van Helden Tonja.Vanhelden@Colorado.edu Tonja van Helden received her B.A. in Communications from the University of New Hampshire and her M.A. in German Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Currently pursuing her Ph.D., her areas of focus are modern aesthetics, philosophical and political theory in addition to performance art. She has taught beginning through advanced levels of German and operates a business in German translation and tutoring.

	Meghan Vicks Meghan.Vicks@Colorado.edu Meghan will pursue work in Russian literature and cultural studies, postmodernism/postcommunism, gender and race studies, and film theory. Meghan received her MA in Comparative Literature from CU-Boulder May 2007. Her MA thesis analyzed the relationship between abjection and carnival in the postmodern condition, and especially in Victor Pelevin's novel Homo Zapiens.

	Jim Voss Fred.Voss@Colorado.edu Jim Voss graduated from CU with a B.A. in International Relations and then went on to receive an M.A. in Liberal Arts and another M.A. in Eastern Classics from St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM. His academic interests in the Ph.D. program revolve around non-rational, non-linear/mosaic, and digressive thought. Put another way, madness, the emotional, and the unconscious. Jim is also interested in mourning, tragedy, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, identity, and memory, particularly as they relate to the question of what it means to be human.

Graduate Students - MA

	Sarah DeBell Sarah.DeBell@colorado.edu Sarah received her BA from the University of Oregon in Comparative Literature and Russian Studies in 2003. She is interested in Soviet underground literature, war memoir and exile writing. She hopes to explore the effects of spousal editing on the traditional feminine archetype.

	Mack Eason Mackenzie.Eason@Colorado.edu Mack Eason received a BA. in Philosophy and Humanities from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Mack is interested in the convergence of Philosophy and Literary Theory focusing on subjects such as the ethical dimensions of modern and postmodern theory, the application of "Critical History" as explored by Nietzsche and Benjamin to literary analysis, and the use of narrative in educational philosophy.

	Rachel Ferguson Rachel.Ferguson@Colorado.edu Rachel is pursuing work in Postcolonial Literature, Film Studies, Political Theory and French. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her interests include culture (literature, film, music) as political dissent/rebellion, literature of developing nations and intercultural studies.

	Darin Graber Darin.Graber@colorado.edu Darin Graber has received a BA from Wabash College in English and German and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame. He plans to focus on English and German literature from the early 20th century and is interested in the representation and significance of bodies in literature. Darin is also interested in German to English translation, both of contemporary writers and of those already in translation.

	Kathryn Hillis Kathryn.Hillis@Colorado.edu Kathryn graduated from the University of Central Florida with a BA in English literature. She is interested in English, French, Scandinavian, and German literature, with a focus on identity, memory, and political thought.

	Trey Lykins Trey.Lykins@Colorado.edu Trey received his BA in English from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in May 2008. He is interested in theories of the postmodern, cultural studies, film, and the ways in which media (particularly new media) influence and define society.

	Brandon Pelcher Brandon.Pelcher@Colorado.edu Brandon received his BA in Mathematics from CU Colorado Springs, and worked on his graduate degree in Abstract Algebra at CU Denver before dropping out, working at a local bookstore and finally moving to France. Over time, he became enamored with Proust, Joyce and the role of the Joycean epiphany in Modernism. He plans to extend this infatuation Northeast via German, Russian, and Scandinavian literatures.

	Joanna Peluso Joanna.Peluso@Colorado.edu Joanna received a B.A. in English from Point Loma Nazarene University and then in May 2007 earned a second B.A. in Humanities from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Her interests include German, French, 19th and 20th century literature, and Literary Criticism, primarily deconstruction and structuralism as well as semiotics. Along with continued study in her languages and literatures, she intends to pursue the relationship between art and literature as applied to imagery and the concept of semiotics.

	Michelle Sambrano Michelle.Sambrano@Colorado.edu Michelle Sambrano double majored in philosophy and film theory/criticism at the University of Colorado at Denver. In philosophy her concentration was/is in phenomenology, focusing on Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. Currently she is interested in how and why phenomenologists turn to literature as a way of approaching questions of being. In film her concentration was the representation of history and memory as seen in the genre of Westerns. Currently she is interested in African film and how the political works to shape its aesthetic.

	Eric Schuck Eric.Schuck@Colorado.edu Eric received a BA in History from Montana State University and a MA in Religious Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is interested in Russian and Latin American Literatures of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, specifically as these literatures relate to Russian Orthodox Christianity, Latin American Catholicism, and monastic traditions.

	Kristie Soares Kristie.Soares@Colorado.edu Kristie studies twentieth century Brazilian poetry, Latin American literature and globalization, and gender studies. She received her BA in English and Women's Studies from the University of Florida. Her other areas of interest include poetry, performance art, and theory.

	Nicole White Nicole.S.White@Colorado.edu Nicole White received her B.A. in Environmental Studies and Russian Studies from the University of Colorado at Denver and her M.A. in Russian Language and Literature from the University of Denver. She has a broad background in Slavic folk culture and Russian Literature. Her specific areas of interest are Slavic, Germanic and Scandinavian, and Celtic folk traditions and tales. Outside of academics she is a high school teacher and privately teaches Russian and English.

	Min Yang min.yang@Colorado.edu A short biography will be posted soon.