Category: People

Rosa Glaessner Novak is an artist and PhD student in History of Art at the University of Michigan. Her current work traces building material histories to sites of extraction and explores the land and material histories of extractive environments. Previous work has included archival research and writing on the artist and designer Edith Heath, explorations…

Micaela Moya is a doctoral student at the University of Salamanca (USAL). She holds a Masters in Spanish Literature and Literary Studies and the Arts from the University of Valladolid (UVa) and a BA in Literature from the National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP). She is currently working on her thesis about the amorous…

I am a graduate student in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. I received my BA (Spanish Philology, 2010), MA (Literary Studies, 2011) and Ph.D. (Latin American Studies, 2015) from the University of Alicante. My current research focuses on Peninsular literature and film and addresses cultural products which, through…

I am a PhD candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures. Previously, I studied anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires, where I completed my BA thesis in the field of political anthropology, which focused on the 19th century Buenos Aires borderlands. Currently, I am interested in the encounters between political economy, feminist theory, gender and…

Ailín María Mangas holds a BA in Literature and Library Science (Letras y Bibliotecaria documentalista) from the National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP). She currently works as a teacher at a secondary school and as an editorial assistant for the peer-reviewed journal, Estudios de Teoría Literatia: letras, artes, humanidades. Ailín has participated in UNMdP’s outreach programs in…

Sunhong Kim is a doctoral student in ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on gender hierarchy and power relations in the court/folk music ensembles in South Korea. Her current research interest is expanded to a sub-genre of Korean popular music which intersects South Korean traditional music with popular music.

I am a first year undergraduate student. I was first introduced to critical theory and philosophy as a freshman in high school, and I have been reading more and more of it ever since. I was the president of the Ethics Club and a captain of the Debate Team in high school, and both activities…

I am a PhD student in Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. My dissertation focuses on literary representations of the French Revolution and the Paris Commune, written in various genres, epochs and national traditions, by authors who see their works as politically-committed. A few examples are Louise Michel’s novel La chasse aux loups, Peter…

Federico Correa Pose is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at the University of Southern California. He holds a BA in communication science from the Universidad Católica del Uruguay and a MS in Rhetoric, Theory and Culture from Michigan Technological University. Federico’s research interests are situated geographically in…

I am a Ph.D. student in the Statistics Department at University of Michigan, where I research causal machine learning in observational medical data. Before grad school, I worked as a data analyst and software engineer in NYC. I mainly work on technical support for the Marxism lab, but I am interested in studying a variety of macrosystems…