Graduate Research Colloquium Series

Asaf Roth is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Program in Comparative Literature at Penn. His dissertation topic, which lies in the intersection of Classical Reception Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and French and English, examines the reception of Platonic homoeroticism in Francophone and Anglophone texts written within and outside of academia throughout the 20th century.   

Title - Remodeling Homosexuality: André Gide's Ancient Greek Paiderastia

Mira Phillips (she/her) is a Social Planning & Policy (SP2) PhD candidate. Her dissertation research looks at the temporal complexities of the care labour of racialized immigrant women working in Toronto's immigrant and refugee-serving sector.