Ash Maria

Ash Maria (he/they) is a second-year Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. As a comparativist, Ash is primarily interested in research at the intersection of Baltic, Lusophone, and Slavic studies.

Anna Linetskaya

Anna Linetskaya’s proposed plan of study focuses, inter alia, on the role of linguistic subversion—and prostorechie in particular—in the narrative ethics and aesthetics of Russophone prose and its regional variations.

Jack Cao

Education  

BA in English with First Class Honours – University of Melbourne

MA in English and Comparative Literature with First Class Honours – University of Melbourne

Biography  

Hilah Kohen

I am a translator, researcher, and language advocate. Before beginning my PhD at Penn, I worked in journalism and editing. You can find examples of my work on my website.