Humanities

Mary Pat Brady

Education: B.A. Arizona State University, English; M.A. University of California, Los Angeles, English; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, English

Dissertation: Extinct Lands, Scarred Bodies: Chicana Reinventions of Space

Thesis Advisors: Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles and Valerie Smith, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic: Extinct Lands, Scarred Bodies: Chicana Reinventions of Space

Mentor: Jose David Saldívar, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of English, Cornell University

Vilashini Cooppan

Education: B.A. Yale University, Humanities; Ph.D. Stanford University, Comparative Literature

Dissertation: Inner Territory: Colonialism/Psychoanalysis/Post-Colonialism

Thesis Advisor: Herbert Lindenberger, Professor of English, Stanford University

Research Topic: Psychoanalysis and the Study of Culture: Colonial Uses and Post-Colonial Possibilities

Mentor: Susan Gillman, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Literature, UC Santa Cruz

Dwight McBride

Education: A.B. Princeton University, English Literature and Afro-American Studies; M.A. University of California, Los Angeles, English; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, English Literature

Dissertation: Impossible Witnesses: Restrictive and Resistive Discourses on Nineteenth Century Slavery and Abolitionism

Thesis Advisor: Anne K. Mellor, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic: Impossible Witnesses: Restrictive and Resistive Discourses on Nineteenth Century Slavery and Abolitionism

Mentor: Eric Sundquist, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position:Professor, Department of African-American Studies and Gender & Women's Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago

Jana Sequoya-Magdaleno

Education: B.A. San Francisco State University, Humanities; M.A. University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies; Ph.D. Stanford University, Modern Thought and Literature

Dissertation: A Ruse is a Ruse…Mother Earth and Geologic Time

Thesis Advisor: Russell Berman, Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University

Research Topic: Trope Tricks: The American Indian as Retrospectacle. A discourse analysis of popular ideas of Indianness.

Mentor: Hertha Wong, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: Overseas

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