I am a scholar of comparative medieval and early modern literature, with a particular focus on the emergence of the novella form, its reception, translation, and proliferation in early print culture, as well as theories of reading and their connections with premodern medicine and psychology. My dissertation, Textually Transmitted Diseases:…
Laurens (Lars) Boomsma is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature at Princeton University. In his dissertation, titled “A Grammar of Thought: Herder, Humboldt, Hegel and the Bildung of a Philosophical Language,” he argues that turn of the 19th century German philosophy of language is underpinned by a belief in the…
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…
Research Interests: Aesthetics, Continental Philosophy, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Media Studies.
Florian Endres joined the Department of Comparative Literature in 2020. He is also a Graduate Affiliate of Princeton’s Program in European Cultural Studies. His academic research and writing practice spans the fields of…
Nathaniel Gallant is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He holds a BA in both Comparative Literature and South Asian Studies, and an MA in Japanese Studies from the University of Michigan. His interests include the intersection of religious and literary modernity, theories of aesthetics, and post…
Salwa Halloway is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature, and is additionally affiliated with the Department of African American Studies. She is mainly interested in cultural formations and the circulation of knowledge and artistry in the Black Atlantic world. Her dissertation centers on goombay, a music and dance…
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 and an Interdisciplinary Fellow in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is interested in the literary and visual histories of Classical mythology in Italy, Greece, and the Black Atlantic. Her…
Languages: Spanish and French
Wyatt Leaf is a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature, specializing in Hispanic and French Literature with an expertise in Mexico and France during the 19th and 20th centuries. His interests include poetics, Avant-Garde poetry and narrative, Hispanic Modernism (Modernismo), Parnassianism and Decadence.
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,…
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…
Aliya Ram is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton. Her work explores the relationships between aesthetic innovation, subject formation and coercive social bonds, and she is writing her dissertation on experiments with literary address in twentieth century fiction and…
Xita Rubert is a Spanish writer and a PhD candidate in comparative literature. She is the author of the novels…
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…
Chloe Wheeler is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature. Her dissertation project Dangerous Readers, Found(ational) Texts: A Study of Early Modern Spanish Imaginaries of Literacy traces a cultural history of the representations of readable spaces and literate individuals in territories under the control of…