Dissertation Writing Group Archive

Gender Crossings: Queer, Feminist, and Decolonial Perspectives in the Spanish Speaking World
Eliana Hernández Pachón (Romance Studies), Heftzi Vázquez (Medieval Studies, Romance Studies), Carlota Aguilar González (Music), Kelly Moore (Romance Studies), Juliana Torres (Romance Studies)

Listening to the Voiceless: The Ethics and Politics of Psychoanalysis
Marie Lambert (Comparative Literature), John Un (Comparative Literature), Romain Pasquer (Romance Studies), Soren Larsen (German Studies)

Politics of Production
Pauline Limbu (Anthropology), Shiyi Li (Natural Resources), Jinglin Piao (Anthropology), Annie Sheng (Anthropology), Nari Yoon (Asian Studies)

Resistance at Scale: Remapping the Politics of Black Aesthetics
Kevin Quinn (Africana Studies), Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu (English), Jessica Rodriguez (English), Sadé Ayorinde (History of Art & Visual Studies)

Temporal(izing) Narratives: Time as technology in making state and nation
Rebekah Ciribassi (Anthropology), Geethika Dharmasinghe (Asian Studies), Simon Posner (Anthropology), Xisai Song (Anthropology)

Where archaeology meets STEM: Rethinking the interpretation of archaeological science data for the human past and present
Rebecca Gerdes (Classics), Amanda Domingues (STS), Annapaola Passerini (Anthropology), Alice Wolf (Medieval Studies)

Worldmaking at the periphery: transit, translation, and the politics of intimate knowledge
Ani Chen (Government), Mary Danisi (Classics), Mary Jane Dempsey (Romance Studies), Laura Leddy (Anthropology)

Constructing Community in the Early Middle Ages: Authority, Belief, and Belonging 
Sam Barber (Organizer, Medieval Studies), Patrick Naeve (Medieval Studies), Abigail Sprenkle (Medieval Studies), Paul Vinhage (Medieval Studies), Tyler Wolford (Medieval Studies)

Writing (r)urban narratives: the production of space 
Martin Abbott (Organizer, Science & Technology Studies), Anna Ozaki (City & Regional Planning), Seema Singh (City & Regional Planning), Dylan Stevenson (City & Regional Planning), Nidhi Subramanyam (City & Regional Planning)

(In)comparable Difference: Race, Coloniality, and Culture in Translation 
Kun Huang (Organizer, Comparative Literature), Shu-mei Lin (Comparative Literature), Afifa Ltifi (Africana Studies), Nitzan Tal (Comparative Literature)

Language and World from Medieval to Modern Literature
Ryan Lawrence (Organizer, Medieval Studies), Olivia Milroy Evans (English), Sophia D'Ignazio (Medieval Studies), Austin Lillywhite (English), Seth Strickland (English)

Crisis of Representation and Representations of Crisis in the 20th Century
Sophia Léonard (Organizer, German Studies), Matthias Müller (German Studies), Daniel Zimmer (Government), Daniel Binswanger Friedman (German Studies), William Cameron (Government)

Challenging the Human/Non-Human Divide
Jacqueline Tackett (Organizer, German Studies), Eliana Hernández Pachón (Romance Studies), Mariaenrica Giannuzzi (German Studies), Matías Borg Oviedo (Romance Studies), Philippa Chun (English)

Insiders and Outsiders: Crossing Borders Across Time and Space
Sam Wesner (Organizer, History),  Benedetta Carnaghi (History), Ani Chen (Government), Mary Jane Dempsey (Romance Studies), Kelsey Utne (History)

Liminal Spaces, Production, and Geography in the Global South
Joshua Savala (History, organizer), Youjin Chung (Development Sociology), Elena Guzman (Anthropology), Kyle Harvey (History), Emily Hong (Anthropology)

Play, Map, Coin and Poem: Reading for Authority in the Media of the Long Medieval Period
John Wyatt Greenlee (Medieval Studies, organizer), Mandy Albert (Medieval Studies), Sam Barber (Medieval Studies), Anna Fore Waymack (Medieval Studies)

Please, Do Make a Scene: Seeing, Thinking, and Writing with Disruptive Images
Emiko Stock (Anthropology, organizer), Yagna Nag Chowdhuri (Asian Studies), Natalie Nesvaderani (Anthropology), Chairat Polmuk (Asian Studies), Elizabeth Wijaya (Comparative Literature)

Sites of Negotiation: The Histories, Ethics and Aesthetics of Labor
Michaela Brangan (English, organizer), Mike Maffie (ILR), Asli Menevse (History of Art), Kwelina Thompson (History), Lauren van Haaften-Schick (History)

Stop Motion: Aesthetics of a Corrupt Present
Katryn Evinson (Romance Studies, organizer), Lara Fresko (History of Art), Janet Hendrickson (Romance Studies), Keiji Kunigami (Asian Studies), Bret Leraul (Comparative Literature)

Analyzing Cold War and Post-Cold War Geopolitical and Aesthetic Shifts through the Lenses of Performance Studies
Arina Rotaru (German Studies), Minhwa Ahn (Asian Studies), Samuel Dwinell (Music), Walter Jen-Hao Hsu (Theatre, Film and Dance)

Engaging the Environment, Science and Technology
Hronn Brynjarsdottir (Information Science), Megan Halpern (Communication), Laura Rickard (Communication), Benjamin Wang (Science and Technology Studies)

Classics
Erica Bexley (Classics), Catherine Kearns (Classics), Samuel Kurland (Classics), Lindsay Sears (Classics)

After the End and After: Art and Politics in Contemporary Latin America
Karen Benezra (Romance Studies), Zac Zimmer (Romance Studies), Kyong-Min Son (Government), Osvaldo de la Torre (Romance Studies)

Historicist Literature and Literary History: Creating and Transgressing Boundaries in Medieval England
Melissa Winders (English), Sarah Harlan-Haughey (Medieval Literature), Thomas McSweeney (History), Eliza Buhrer (Medieval Studies)

Common Goal: Understanding a past which continues to escape historians' attempts to tie it down
Erik Kenyon (Classics), Jeffrey Leon (Classical Archaeology), Aaron Pelttari (Classics), Zachary Yuzwa (Classics/Medieval Studies)

Through the Disciplinary Glass: Imagining the Present, Imagining the Past
Mari Crabtree (History), Sarah Ensor (English), Melissa Gniadek (English), Peter Lavelle (History), Deagan Miller (History) 

Common Focus: Grappling with modern dialectics
Cecily Swanson (English), Sarah Pickle (Comparative Literature), Ari Linden (German Studies), Onur Ulas Ince (Government), Carl Gelderloos (German Studies)

Border Thinking
Marcus Braham (English), Danielle Haque (English), Virginia Kennedy (English/American Indian Studies), Mukti Lakhi (English)

Discursive Resistances
Chad Bennett (organizer, English), Sarah L. Cote (English), Corinna Lee (English), Jessica Metzler (English), Anthony Reed (English)

Engaging Language, Engaging History
Andrew Alwood (Philosophy), Kristen A. Inglis (Philosophy), Brent G. Kyle (Philosophy), Colin P. McLear (Philosophy), Scott O'Conner (Philosophy)

Internal debates of literary history
Ben Glaser (organizer, English), Alexis C. Briley (Comparative Literature), Adam Joseph Grener (English), Douglas McQueen-Thompson (English)

Re-encountering America
Melissa Gniadek (organizer, English), Dianne W. Cappiello (History), Brigitte Nicole Fielder (English), Deagan Ryan Miller (History), Jonathan William Senchyne (English)

The Long Eighteenth Century
Jess Keiser (organizer, English), Stephanie Degooyer (English), Bradley Depew (English), Sarah Eron (English)
Grace Yvette-Gemmell (German Studies)

Transgressing Borders
Seok-Won Lee (organizer, History), Lisa Onaga (Science & Technology Studies), InYoung Bong (Asian Studies), Noriaki Hoshino (History), Akiko Ishii (History)

Psychoanalysis Writing Group
Daniel Edward Wilson (organizer, English), Shanna Carlson (Romance Studies), Rebecca Colesworthy (English), Carissa Sims (Comparative Literature) 

Materiality, Form, Knowledge, and Contingency
Douglas McQueen-Thompson (organizer, English), Bradley Depew (English), Aaron Hodges (Comparative Literature), Alan Young-Bryant (English)

Knowledge Production, Formation and Circulation of Discourse, Politics of Representation, and War and Society
Christopher Ahn (organizer, Asian Studies), Akiko Ishii (History), Samson Lim (History), Hajima Masuda (History), Honghong Tinn (Science & Technology Studies)

Queer Theory
Jessica Metzler (organizer, English), Peter Bailey (English), Chad Bennett (English), Sarah Cote (English), Lindsay Cummings (Theatre, Film & Dance), Diana Looser (Theatre, Film & Dance)

Screens: Film and Other Forms of Visual Media
Katherine Groo (organizer, Comparative Literature), Lauren Beeley (Romance Studies), Ryan Platt (Theatre, Film & Dance)