Recent Tisch Library Arts and Humanities Graduate Fellows

Kyung Seo Chung (PhD, English)

• Chung's dissertation examines London’s living body throughout the long eighteenth century and she will explore texts that are connected to or make significant reference to the city, such as Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), Tobias Smollett’s The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), and Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad (1728).

Jordan Green (PhD, English)

• Green's dissertation explores the ways early English novels experiment with excessive singularity or “obsessive” empiricism as a means of characterization which plays upon the possibilities of accumulating experiences to individuate characters or flatten them into “types.”

Kate Haggarty (MA, History of Art and Architecture)

• Haggarty's thesis project explores the Symbolist and psychological ideologies of the late 1800s, using Alfred Maury and Hervey de Saint-Denys’s early conceptualization of the dream state as a framework for understanding Odilon Redon’s lithographic series Dans le rêve.

Artur Vllahiu (MA, Philosophy)

• Vllahiu's thesis project examines the relationship between rigorous ordinary mathematical proofs written in natural language and their counterpart proofs written as computer-checkable derivations in formal languages.

Sam Norcross (PhD, English)

• Norcross' research draws upon poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theories of language to examine the biological discourses of speciation and the genetic code, exploring how literature deconstructs the scientific codification of our universe and how the language of science shapes our perception of the natural world.

Wenxuan Xue (PhD, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies)

• Xue's research highlights how Asian North American artists mythologize and fabulate their diasporic lineage, ancestral spirits, and place-based relations through contemporary performance, ritual, and storytelling practices.

Anahit Gasparyan (MA, History of Art and Architecture)

• Gasparyan's thesis research examines the connections between the medieval Etchmiadzin Gospel, the Church of Bgheno-Noravankʻ, located in the Syunikʻ province of Armenia, and the larger countryside of the region.

William Roush (MA, Philosophy)

• Roush's thesis project involves creating a new, open access digital edition of Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism. This new digital edition will provide researchers with a much-needed machine actionable bases for researching an important but neglected text in the history of philosophy.

Jenny Henderson (PhD, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies)

• Research for dissertation: Listening Incommensurably: Reckoning With Sexual Violence Through Critical Geographic Performance in the Contemporary U.S. and Canada.

Manjari Mukherjee (PhD, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies)

• Research for dissertation: Yahudi Ki Ladki (Daughter of a Jew): Jews on the Indian Stage and Screen from the 1920s to the 1950s.

Emily Palermo (PhD, English)

• Research for dissertation: How to Feel Southern: Mapping Affective Geographies of the American South.

Nicola Solly (PhD, English)

• Solly's dissertation project focuses on the therapeutic potential of "psychotic literature" in the twentieth century showing that inventive literary work can function as a form of therapy for the writer precisely because of its psychotic features.

Stephanie Engel (PhD, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies)

• Research for dissertation: "Enough of This I'm-Not-Latino-Enough Bullshit" Eroticism and Afro-Latinx Celebrities in U.S. Pop Culture.

Rebekah Waalkes (PhD, English)

• Research for dissertation: Simultaneous Fictions: Reading Form and Attention in the Contemporary Novel.

Shruti Paladugu (MA, History of Art and Architecture)

• Research for thesis: Reading "the Grammar" in Ornament: Owen Jones and the Theoretical Framing of "Indian Ornament".

Fiza Shahzad (MA, History)

• Research for thesis: Public Perception vs. Practice: Tracing Muslim Women’s (Dis)Inheritance in Punjab, 1526-Present.

Hannah Herndon (PhD, English)

• Research for dissertation: Listening to Survivors: Multiethnic American Women’s Writing About Sexual Violence 1797-2019.

Lee Nevitt (PhD, English)

• Research for dissertation: The Fluid Transmission of Tradition: A Look Askew at Queer and Racial Politics.

Sophia Cocozza (MA, Music)

• Research for thesis: Listening Otherwise.

Cat Rosch (MA, History)

• Research for thesis: Gynecology for Jumbos: Activism, Women's Health, and Birth Control on Tufts Campus from 1970-1972.

Tathagata Dutta (PhD, History)

• Research for dissertation: Strategic Reserves of the Empire: Governance at the Margins in Deltaic Bengal, Assam, and Burma, 1760s-1950s.

Asha Tall (PhD, English)

• Research for dissertation: “Hosanna! We Buil’ Back We House”: Sylvia Wynter’s Dramatic Restorying, for Human’s Sake.

Alonso Nichols (MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts)

• Nichols' MFA thesis project explores issues of identity, masculinity, and community.

Andrew Alquesta (PhD, English)

• Research for dissertation: Populism at the Limit: Mass Politics in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature.

Ashley Wilcox (PhD, English)

• Research for dissertation: Making a Killing: The Commodification of Murder in Victorian England.

Marla McLeod (MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts)

• Research for MFA thesis exhibition project: RePresent

Jennifer Horwitz (PhD, English)

• Research for dissertation: Relearning the Earth: Place-Based Educations in American Literature.

Emma Futhey (PhD, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies)

• Research for dissertation: "Born for Universal Sway:" Women and Performance Culture in Boston, 1785-1861.

Kelsey Petersen (MA, History of Art and Architecture)

• Research for thesis: Intervening the Canon: Susan Vogel and the Museum for African Art.