Nudrat Kamal is a PhD student of Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, she taught comparative literature and writing in Karachi, Pakistan. Her research and teaching focuses on South Asian literatures in Urdu and English, particularly in the intersections of environmental humanities, postcolonial theory, gender and sexuality studies, and science fiction and fantasy.

Rose (Rosie) Poku (she/her) is a joint PhD candidate in Africana Studies and Comparative Literature & Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. She is pursuing two certificates in GSWS (Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies) and CETLI (Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation) as well. Rosie earned her Bachelors of Arts from Smith College in 2022, where she graduated summa cum laude as a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow.

Julia Pelosi-Thorpe is an Italian-Australian PhD student in Italian Studies/Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania.

Her interests include reception/adaptation/translation studies, cultures of textual production from scribal to print to digital, and language pedagogy. She is a 2022–2023 Graduate Project Assistant with the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts and a 2023 Mellon Doctoral Summer Fellow at the Price Lab for Digital Humanities.

Interests

African American and Ethnic American Literatures,  Postcolonial Literature and Global Anglophone,   African American Studies,  Compara

Interests

19th-Century British Literature,   Comparative Race and Empire Studies,  Critical Theory,  Gender and Sexuality Studies