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Students (2003-2004)
Samantha
Ackers
sackers@dillard.edu
William Allegrezza
alegr5@attglobal.net
Michael
Blandino
mblandi@lsu.edu
Alexandru Boldor
aboldo1@lsu.edu
Melody
Boyd
mboyd3@lsu.edu
Sylviane
Finck
spaslyusa@lsu.edu
Benjamin
Forkner
benforkner@cox.net
Carolyn
Harmeyer
charmey@lsu.edu
Jason
Juneau
jjunea2@lsu.edu
Melissa
Manolas
mmanol1@lsu.edu
Luis Moreno
lmoren1@lsu.edu
Alexandra
Reuber
A-Reuber@gmx.net
Paulus
Sarwoto
paulsarwoto@yahoo.com
Clany
Soileau
clanyjs@hotmail.com
Kirstin
Squint
ksquin1@lsu.edu
Jennifer
Terry
jterry5@lsu.edu
Edison
Williams
ewill29@lsu.edu
Alumni:
The
LSU Program in Comparative Literature has awarded the PhD degree to
the following people:
Paul Anderson
Lilian Contreras-Silva
Rosary Crain
Michael Dennyson
Matthew Guy
Delia Poey
Joachim Vogeler
Lynn Walford
Alumni
Information
We are proud of the fact that all of those students whom we have granted the Ph.D. (since the inception of the program) are employed in their fields at a college or university.
Not only have all of our Ph.D. recipients secured academic positions, but on the whole they are positively thriving. Here is an enumeration (in chronological order) of all nine students whom we have granted the Ph.D. since the program’s inception in 1989, along with their dissertation titles, current academic affiliations and some of their notable accomplishments. These include great success stories as well as a few more “average” stories of gainful academic employment.
Dissertation: “The Poetry In-Between: Presence and Absence in Whitman, Rimbaud, and Hopkins,” 1993.
Current employment: Associate Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. (For an idea of his innovative courses on writing and digital technology, please visit his website, which may be accessed by clicking on his name.
Bruce R. Magee
Dissertation: “The Amazon Myth in Western Literature,” 1996.
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Louisiana Tech University.
Delia Poey
Dissertation: “Border Crossers and Coyotes: A Reception Study of Latina/o Literatures,” 1996.
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at Florida State University.
Publications: Author of Latino American Literature in the Classroom: The Politics of Transformation [a revised version of her LSU dissertation] (University Press of Florida, 2002).
Editor of two well-known anthologies of Hispanic-American literature: Iguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction and Little Havana Blues: A Cuban-American Literature Anthology. (Information and reviews--highly positive-- of both books may be found at www.amazon.com).
Michael Dennison
Dissertation: “Delights of the Night, Pleasure of the Void: Vampirism and Entropy in Nineteenth-Century Literature,” 1996.
Current Employment: Instructor of English at Carlow College (Pennsylvania) and the University of Pittsburgh.
Publications: He has recently published his LSU dissertation as a book, entitled Vampirism: Literary Tropes of Decadence and Entropy (New York: Peter Lang, 2001). The book is available on www.amazon.com.
Joachim C. Vogeler
Dissertation: “The Myth of Narcissus and the Narcissistic Structure,” 1997.
Current Employment: Instructor of Classics, Louisiana State University.
Rosary J. Crain
Dissertation: “A Critical Edition of the Passion and Advent Chapters of the Pre-Caxtonian Gilte Legende,” 1999.
Current Employment: Instructor of English, University of New Orleans.
Paul Anderson
Dissertation: “Gods, Men, and Their Gifts: A Comparison of The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, and Paradise Lost,” 2000.
Current Employment: Instructor of Classics, Louisiana State University, He teaches New Testament Greek and is also a Lutheran Minister.
Lynn Walford
Dissertation: “A Matter of Life and Death: José María Arguedas, Mario Vargas Llosa, and the Postmodern Condition,” 2000.
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages at LSU-Shreveport, where she serves as the university’s Director of General Studies.
Lillian Contreras-Silva
Dissertation: “Tradition, Rhetoric, and Propriety in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz,” 2000.
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Spanish at Hendrix College in Arkansas. (Since Hendrix is less known than it deserves, the following information may be helpful: The Princeton Review calls Hendrix “a cozy liberal arts school with an exceptionally strong reputation… a bastion of academic excellence… a place where people of widely differing religions and political views live together in a climate of mutual respect… a sleeper that has been making the lists, and it is solid.”)
We are currently working on gathering information on our MA recipients. One, Nirmala Singh, received a fellowship from the University of Michigan, where she is finishing her PhD in Comp Lit.
