Current PhD advisees



Lauren Bunce (English)
Exam Field: “Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Race”
Dissertation: “Narrative Work: Social Reproduction and the Strategy of Refusal in American Literature”

Paola Del Toro (English)
Exam Field: “Racial Capitalism”
Dissertation: “The Voices of Late Capitalism’s Dark Comedies”

Christopher Cañete Rodriguez Kelly (external dissertation committee member) (English, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Dissertation: “From ‘Bundok’ to the Boondocks: Competing Realisms in the Philippine Vernacular and Anglophone Novel” 


Dissertations Advised & Placement


Christopher Cañete Rodriguez Kelly 
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Society of Fellows, Columbia University (2024)
Dissertation: “From ‘Bundok’ to the Boondocks: Competing Realisms in the Philippine Vernacular and Anglophone Novel" (2024)

Becca N. Liu 
Assistant Professor of English, Brown University (2024)
Assistant Professor of English, University of Maryland (2023)
Dissertation: “Contract Spirit: Race, Labor, and Social Reproduction after the Coolie Trade" (2023)