Friederike Ach holds bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature, Classics, Theology, and Modern languages from the Universities of Exeter and Oxford. Her PhD dissertation, provisionally titled "Textually transmitted diseases: Literature, Contagion and Early Modern Circulation," focuses on a number of early modern novellas, novels,…
Periods: 17th and 18th centuries
Languages: French, English, Spanish, Latin, Italian
Research interests: History of Media, Magic, Literature and Ethics
Alexander Brock is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature specializing in early modern…
Research interests: Mexico in the 20th and 21st centuries, Violence and Representation, Literary Realism, Documentation and the Archive, Theories of the Contemporary, Memory Studies, State and Nation.
Languages: Spanish (native), German (fluent), English (fluent), Russian (Good command), Ancient Greek…
Liam received his BA in Classics at Johns Hopkins University in 2018. Unperturbed by concerns over meta-narratives, he now primarily studies a cluster of related concepts – temporality, historical consciousness, recognition, and responsibility – as they have been variously taken up in German Idealist philosophy, in modernization theory since…
Research Interests: Marxism, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, (Post-)Structuralism, Continental Philosophy
Languages: German, French, Spanish, Latin
Florian Endres received his M.A. in Philosophy from Humboldt University Berlin and his B.A. in Culture and Technology / Philosophy from…
My practice is imprinted by the implosion of the USSR and molded in immigration across borders, media and languages. I work comparatively between Chinese and Russian contexts. My dissertation - titled, “The Indigestible Body - performative post-socialisms and the post-Cold War regime of representation” - focuses…
Salwa Halloway is a PhD student who focuses on the Lebanese Diaspora in sub-Saharan Africa. Her research interests include the intersection between the Africa-based Lebanese Diaspora, colonialism and the trans-Saharan Slave Trade; Afro-Lebanese populations; and African responses to auxiliary diasporas. She presented a paper on Lebanese…
Antonio is PhD candidate in his fourth year of study, currently writing on the turn from semantic to aesthetic relations in the prose of Henry James, Willa Cather and Nathaniel Hawthorne. An Americanist, he is concerned more generally with aesthetic theory in Auerbach, Hegel, Kant, Lessing, Adorno and others. He holds a B.A. in Latin American…
Caresse Jackson-Alger is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature. She is interested in the cultural history of classicism in Italy, Greece, and the Black Atlantic. Her dissertation examines the interrelation of literary and artistic classicisms in the depiction of the Black body through the gendered…
Research interests: Modernist and Avant-Garde poetry and prose, Mexican Modernism, Parnasse, Decadentism, Symbolism, Pan-Hispanism, Experimental fiction
Languages: Spanish and French
Wyatt Leaf is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, specializing in French and Hispanic literature with an emphasis in the nineteenth…
Peter Makhlouf holds a B.A. in Classics (Latin and Greek) from Brown University and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Princeton. At present his two primary areas of research are 1) the German tradition from c. 1800 onward and 2) Platonism and Aristotelianism from the classical period through into late antiquity, the Arabic Middle Ages, and…
Periods: 20th-21st century
Research interests: Psychoanalysis, Comparative Poetics, Critical Theory, Border Studies, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Gender Theory, Philosophy of Language, Art History.
Languages: Spanish, English, French,…
Apolline is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature. She is interested in Utopian literature and architecture, with a focus on French, English, German and Ancient Greek traditions.
Apolline received a MA in English from Sorbonne University, Paris and majored in Classics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure.
…Periods: Modern and Contemporary
Languages: Russian, French, German
Research interests: the intersection of literature and the visual arts; genre theory; film theory and history; critical theory and cultural studies
Jacob Plagmann received his B.A. in Comparative Literature and Russian from the University of Oregon…
Research interests: Modernisms, realisms, poetics, drama, decolonisation and postcolonial theory, translation, South Asian, Caribbean and East Asian literature, critical theory
Languages: English, Hindi, French, Chinese (advanced), Spanish (intermediate),…
Before joining the department, Xita studied philosophy and literature in England and France. At Princeton, she is working to expand the ideas explored in her undergraduate thesis: “How (and why) not to be yourself: Literature and Impersonality in Proust and Borges.” She is interested in how impersonality –or the ability to be another– can often…
Research Interests: the 19th century English novel, Critical Theory, comparative history of philosophy, realism and sexual violence
Marie works at the juncture of the English philosophical and literary tradition and the German critical tradition…
Fay Slakey is a second-year graduate student in the department of Comparative Literature. Before coming to Princeton, she earned her BA in Modern Literature at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest, France. She holds two masters’ degrees from the same university, the first in Medieval Celtic Languages and the second in Medieval…
Fields/Periods: Japanese, French/Francophone, and English literary and cultural studies from late nineteenth-century to twenty-first century, avant-garde movements, modernism, post-modernism, spatial theory, eco-criticism, and animal studies.
Tomoko Takeuchi Slutsky is a Ph.D candidate in Comparative Literature…
Research interests: Postcolonial Studies; Decolonial Thought; Marxism, Socialism, and Nationalism; Feminist and Queer Theory; Aesthetics and Politics; History and Theory of the Novel; Modernism and Realism
Languages: English, French, Arabic, Slovenian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
Grega Ulen…
Chloe Wheeler is a second-year graduate student in Comparative Literature. Before starting her Ph.D., she was awarded a 2019-2020 Fulbright Spain (Galicia) ETA Fellowship as well as a 2021-2022 Fulbright Spain Predoctoral Research Fellowship. She holds a B.A. in Spanish and Comparative Literature from Occidental College (2019) and a Post…