Alice E.M. Underwood

Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature

Contact:

aeunderw@stanford.edu

Office Hours:

by appointment

BIO:

Alice entered the Ph.D. program in Comparative Literature in Fall 2012. She is interested in intersections of poetics, sexuality, and political resistance in twentieth-century narrative prose, particularly in Russia and Latin America. Queer theory, postmodernist thought and aesthetics, and the Frankfurt School have influenced her approach to the study of literature.

Presentations:

"Masks of Opposition: Is Pussy Riot a Drag?" Panel presentation at “Pussy Riot: Performance, Protest, and the Russian State.” Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, 2012.

Languages:

Fluent: Russian, Spanish

Reading: Portuguese, French, Czech

EDUCATION:

A.B. from Harvard University, 2011. Magna cum laude with highest honors from the Department of Slavic Literatures and Cultures; secondary field in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

Undergraduate Thesis: “Rights on Parade: The Russian LGBT Community’s March Toward Equality," 2011. Slavic Department Best Undergraduate Thesis Prize; Eugene Cummings Award for Thesis on LGBT Topics, Honorable Mention.

AFFINITY LINKS:

20th century
russian literature
latin american literature
queer theory
gender studies
postmodernity
marxist theory

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