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  • Charles Pletcher

    August 1, 2013

    Charles Pletcher comes to Dartmouth by way of Deep Springs College and Brown University (B.A. Classics and Comparative Literature). Broadly, his work focuses on the 20th-century Latin American reception of ancient Greek literature and philosophy. This year, his master's thesis develops the notion of the Aristotelian mean through a reading of Griselda Gambaro's Antígona furiosa and Sophocles' Antigone. This winter, he is TA-ing a course on Latino/a American theater, and in the fall he worked with the Classics department on revising their Latin curriculum.

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  • Jessica Resvick

    August 1, 2013

    Before coming to Dartmouth, Jessica completed her undergraduate work at Brown University and the Humboldt University in Berlin, graduating with an Sc.B. in German Studies and Neuroscience. Her honors thesis focused on issues of language and translation in two short stories by the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann. Following graduation, she spent a year teaching English at two high schools in Linz, Austria. While at Dartmouth, Jessica has completed coursework mainly in the German Department, and hopes to use the spring term to pursue her interests in Russian literature.

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  • Rachel Starr

    August 1, 2013

    Rachel Starr is originally from Boulder, Colorado and received her A.B. from Brown University. Her current research explores the theoretical problems posed by 20th- and 21st-century authors translating their own work, specifically in relation to Nancy Huston and Samuel Beckett. At Dartmouth, her coursework has been evenly split between theory seminars and French literature courses, with the addition of German language courses (just for fun).

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  • Baoli Yang

    August 1, 2013

    Baoli Yang's research interests are modern Chinese, Japanese and Russian literature. During her study at Dartmouth, she completed her master thesis "Traveling through Fantastic Modernity: Reconsidering Time Travel fiction as a Landmark of History Fiction."

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  • Roger David Dulceany Adv '10

    July 13, 2012

    After graduating from the Comparative Literature M.A. program in 2011, I remained at Dartmouth College to work for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese as the 2011-2012 Faculty Advisor to La Casa, the Spanish language affinity house and immersion program. Starting in October 2012, I will be on a Fulbright research grant to Romania for 9 months. I have proposed to investigate the sociocultural and diplomatic relations between Cuba and Romania during Romania's communist era.

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