Congratulations to 2013 Ph.D.s
UCI’s brilliant Comp Lit graduates are traveling across the country and to Canada to accept positions next fall, including three tenure-track positions. Joining faculties as Assistant Professors are Michelle Cho, East Asian Studies at McGill University; Abraham Romney, Department of Humanities at Michigan Tech; and, Duy Nguyen, Modern and Classical Languages/World Cultures and Literatures Program, University of Houston. Erin Huang will join the Department of East Asian Studies at New York University as Visiting Assistant Professor, and Vuslat Demirkoparan accepts a Visiting Assistant Professor position in Rhetoric and Composition/Manager of the Writing Center at Soka University. Eddie Pinuelas will become a Thompson Writing Program Fellow at Duke University, and two of our recent PhDs have accepted teaching positions closer to home: Brook Haley will teach French at The Bishop's School in La Jolla, CA, and Tim Wong will join the Pacific Ridge School in Carlsbad, CA, to teach English. We’re delighted to recognize a number of awards to our graduate students, including two prestigious post-doctoral appointments: Duy Nguyen will be studying at the Pembroke Center, Brown University, next year before joining U. of Houston for his tenure-track job. And Erin Obodiac has been invited to continue her post-doctoral studies in Cornell’s Department of Comparative Literature. Our continuing graduate students have earned a number of awards as well: Dan Costello, Donald and Dorothy Strauss Dissertation Award for 2013-14; James Goebel was supported by the School of Humanities to attend the Cornell University School of Theory and Criticism this summer. James will also be traveling to Paris in the fall to participate in the Nanterre Exchange Fellowship in 2013-14. Alexander Jabbari was awarded the Humanities Dean’s Gateway Award in Persian Studies for Summer 2013; Kim Icreverzi earned the Brython David Fellowship (Spring 2013), and Tamara Beauchamp won the Hayman Dissertation Fellowship offered by the UC Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consoritum for Summer 2013. For receiving various travel and dissertation study grants, we also recognize Karen Jallatyan, C.J. Gordon, Mark Pangilinan, Ameeth Vijay, Sarah Kessler, and Ghada Mourad. Poems by Kirsty Singer were featured in the PEN America online Poetry Series, March 2013 : http://www.pen.org/poetry/two-poems-kirsty-singer. Ali Meghdadi served as Pedagogical Fellow for 2012-13, and Denise Spampinato completed her degree. Congratulations to all! |
Grads host conferences
Our energetic students hosted three major conferences this year, starting with an October 2012 gathering: "Urban Speculation and Contested Georgraphies," featuring a keynote by Karen Tongson (English and Gender Studies, USC). C.J. Gordon and Ameeth Vijay were the conveners. The Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference (March 2013) addressed "The Laboring Body" and brought Nathan Brown from UC, Davis, to deliver a timely keynote titled "The Proletariat." Organizers included Philip Anselmo, Jen Gutierrez, Alexander Jabbari, and Jamie Rogers. C. J. Gordan also contributed organizing efforts to the Early Cultures Sixth Annual Graduate Student Conference, held in April 2013, and featuring Drew Daniel from Johns Hopkins. Drawing participants from across the campus, region, and country, these events create stimulating exchange around questions of pressing critical, theoretical, and cultural significance.
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