Current Graduate Students
Camille Carter
Research Interests:
Transnational Feminisms, Decolonial Thought, and Cultural Production across the Global South
Carter, Camille. “Remaindered Life. Neferti X.M. Tadiar. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022 (ISBN 978-1-478-01776-9).” Hypatia 39, no. 4 (2024): e35. https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2024.65
Eugene Koveos
Research Interests:
Continental Philosophy and Globalization, Social Movements and Philosophy, Theories of the Avant-Garde
Lawrence Maher
Research Interests:
20th-century French Literature and Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Poetry
Ayesha Rasul
Research Interests:
Folklore, Mythology, Historical fiction, Science fiction
Richie Riley-Falquez
Research Interests:
Psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, Continental Philosophy, Latinx Studies, Transnational Studies, Caribbean Studies
Josh Riordan
Research Interests:
Deconstruction, Decolonial Theory, 20th-century American Literature, 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone Literature
Alexander Sell
Research Interests:
Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Existentialism, Long Modernism and Modernity, Weird Fiction, Philosophy of Literature and Language
- “The Ontological Uncanny: from the Gothic to Weird Fiction.” Gothic Modernisms, Clemson University Press. Forthcoming.
- “Everything and Nothing: The Horror of Meaning in The Cipher.” Imagining the Impossible: International Journal for the Fantastic in Contemporary Media, 3 (1). 2024
Recent conferences:
- “That There is Anything at All: Wonder in Nancy and Heidegger.” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Rochester (NY), 2024.
- “The Ontological Uncanny: Weird Fiction between Freud and Heidegger.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Montreal (CA), 2024.
- “Moving Past Lovecraft: New Visions of the Weird.” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA). Organized Panel, Philadelphia (PA), 2025.
Jasmina Tacheva
Research Interests:
Abolitionist and Queer-Feminist Responses to AI, Queer Archives and Digital Activism, Postsocialist Studies
- Tacheva, J., & Ramasubramanian, S. (2023). AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI's global order. Big Data & Society, 10(2), 20539517231219241.
Recent Conferences
- Tacheva, J. (2025). “The Revolution Will Not Be A(u)tomized: AI Abolition from Below.” Accepted for presentation at the Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH.