Recent Tisch Library Arts and Humanities Graduate Fellows

The Tisch Library Graduate Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities provides a source of funding for MA, MFA, and PhD students conducting research over the summer for their qualifying paper, thesis, or dissertation research. 

Under each heading below, you will find recent fellows with descriptions of their research projects or final thesis/dissertation titles that were supported by the fellowship. 

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)

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)

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)

Rebekah Waalkes (PhD, English)

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)

Hannah Herndon (PhD, English)

Lee Nevitt (PhD, English)

Sophia Cocozza (MA, Music)

Cat Rosch (MA, History)

Tathagata Dutta (PhD, History)

Asha Tall (PhD, English)

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)

Ashley Wilcox (PhD, English)

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

  • Research for MFA thesis exhibition project: RePresent

Jennifer Horwitz (PhD, English)

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

Kelsey Petersen (MA, History of Art and Architecture)