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Graduate Students

Mus’ab Abdul Salam

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  • Affiliation: graduate employee, graduate student
  • Title: Comparative Literature Graduate Student
  • Phone: 541-346-0529
  • Office: 216 PLC

Hessam Abedini

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  • Affiliation: graduate employee, gtf
  • Title: Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ ENG GE
  • Phone: 541.346.2243
  • Office: 316 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter Term: TR 2-3:30pm
  • Adviser: Prof. Leah Middlebrook
  • Interests: Indo-European Epic; Translation Studies and Philology; Orientalism; Classical Persian Poetry; Nineteenth-Century English Literature

Seema Amin

  • Affiliation: graduate student
  • Title: Graduate Student, Department of Comparative Literature
  • Office: 310 Villard
  • Office Hours: Spring 2023 Office Hours: Wednesdays 2pm-3pm

Mushira Habib

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  • Affiliation: gtf
  • Title: Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
  • Phone: 541-346-0934
  • Office: 313B Villard Hall
  • Affiliated Departments: American English Institute, English
  • Interests: Memoirs and Autobiographies, Memory Studies, Postcolonial Literatures in English (with a special interest in SouthAsian Literatures), Postcolonial Studies, Women & Gender Studies, Media Studies (especially Popular & Social Media), Creative Nonfiction, Lin

Matthias Kramer

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  • Title: Comparative Literature Graduate Student
  • Phone: 541-346-0934
  • Interests: Speculative Thought, Japanese and Anglophone Literature, Translated Literature and Literary Translation, Queer Theories and Theories of Deconstruction

Pearl Lee

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  • Title: Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
  • Phone: 541-346-0934
  • Office: 313B Villard Hall
  • Office Hours: Sprig Term: Mondays 1:30p-3:30p
  • Interests: Biopolitics; Neo-Marxism; 20th- and 21st- century East Asian and Latin American literatures engaging with neoliberalism; Asian diasporic literature; film, animation and comic studies

Yei Won Lim

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  • Title: Comparative Literature Graduate Student
  • Phone: 541-346-1307
  • Office: 215 PLC

Chutong Liu

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  • Affiliation: gtf
  • Title: Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ ENG GE
  • Office: 21 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter Term: MW 10-10:50am & by appt.
  • Interests: Russian literature and ballet in the second half of the 19th-century, Silver Age of Russian poetry, 20th-century Soviet and Chinese Socialist Realism

Kit McDunn

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  • Affiliation: graduate employee
  • Title: Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ ENG GE
  • Phone: 541-346-0934
  • Office: 313B Villard Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter Term: Wednesday 12pm-3pm
  • Affiliated Departments: English
  • Programs, Research and Outreach: Composition
  • Teaching Level: Undergraduate
  • Adviser: Jenifer Presto
  • Interests: climate fiction and the environmental humanities, literature in the nuclear age, disaster and revolution, Soviet literature, post-Soviet literature, Russian literature, Ukrainian literature

Mariam Nadeem

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  • Affiliation: gtf
  • Title: Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ ENG GE
  • Additional Title: Raymund Fellow
  • Phone: 541-346-0934
  • Office: 310 Villard Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter Term: TR 2-4pm
  • Interests: De-colonial and feminist poetics in English, Urdu and Arabic literature, narrative identity and subject-formation, religion and secularism, existentialism, phenomenology and critical theory

Amanda Powell

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  • Affiliation: graduate employee, gtf
  • Title: Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ ENG GE
  • Phone: 541-346-0050
  • Office: 269 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter Term: M 2:15-3:15pm, W 1:15-3:15pm
  • Interests: Postcolonial studies, Victorian literature, post-modernism, modern Latin American literature, 20th century British and American literature, rhetoric, lo real maravilloso, literary theory and criticism, mad studies

Feba Rasheed

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  • Affiliation: graduate student
  • Title: Comparative Literature Graduate Student
  • Phone: 541-346-0934
  • Office: 310 Villard Hall
  • Interests: Ethnography; World literature; Partition Studies; Tradition, Law and Feminism in India

Untara Rayeesa

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  • Affiliation: gtf
  • Title: Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ ENG GE
  • Phone: 541-346-0934
  • Office: 310 Villard Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter Term: MW 12-1:30pm
  • Interests: Critical Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Anglophone Postcolonial Literature, South Asian Literature and Popular Culture, Women's Writing, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Jean-Baptiste Simonnet

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  • Title: Comparative Literature Graduate Student
  • Phone: 541-346-0054
  • Office: 234 PLC

Devina Sindhu

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  • Affiliation: student
  • Title: Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
  • Phone: 541-346-0937
  • Office: 215 Villard Hall
  • Interests: Writing by and about women, global anglophone literature, feminist philosophy, phenomenology, decoloniality, decolonial feminism, world literature, philosophy and literature, ethics, postcolonial thought, South Asian literature and diaspora

Ryan Walker

  • Affiliation: graduate student
  • Title: Graduate Student, Department of Comparative Literature
  • Office: 313 Villard Hall
  • City: Eugene
  • Office Hours: Thursdays 12:00-1:00 PM
  • Interests: Ancient Greek & Latin literatures; English & German Romanticism; Mythology, Philosophy, & Literature; Classical Reception; Poetics; Criticism & Theory; Epics, "National Epics"; Literature of Empire; Secularization; magic and (dis)enchantment in modernity

Nick Wirtz

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  • Title: Comparative Literature Graduate Student
  • Additional Title: English Department GE
  • Phone: 541-346-0050
  • Office: 269 PLC
  • Interests: Realisms and countervisuality, reference and materiality, comics, photography, history and autobiography, visual rhetoric, visual culture, media genealogy.