Alumni stories
Arshy Azizi
Arshy's interests are in Continental philosophy and aesthetics, poetry and politics. His research projects are Plato, Proust, and the relationship between love and truth.
Alba Elliot
Alba's interests are Modernity, French surrealist poetry, feminism, contemporary French autobiographical writings. She is researching female surrealist poets in Europe (France, German, Spain).
Marcus Mamourian
His interests are science and literature (German and French), language and philosophy, and paranoia. His research projects are Rainald Goetz's punk novels and their relationship to economic imaginaries.
Yibea Qian
Her interests are English Literature, Literature of friendship, literature and philosophy, "world literature", East-West relationships.
Stephen Sudia
Stephen's interests are Latin American Literature, Borges, place and movement, utopias and heterotopias. He is researching the role of censorship in Russia and Cuba (Shklovsky and Cabrera Infante).
Abdalla Taha
His interests are 20th Century Arabic Literature, Modernity and Modernism, Psychoanalysis, Marxism and Islamic theology. Abdalla's researching the meaning of modernity and its modernisms for 20th Arab philosophers and intellectuals (Laroui, Abdurrahman, Tarabishi, among others).