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After completing a 2011-12 English Teaching Fellowship through the TAPIF in Saint-Quentin, France, Elyse Martin '11 has now begun a full-time position as the Program Assistant at the Folger Shakespeare Institute in Washington, D.C. While at Smith, Elyse wrote and defended a senior honor's thesis:"Citizen, My Mother is the Republic": Ideologies of Terror, Gender and Heroism in Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities and Victor Hugo's Quatrevingt-Treize.
Elizabeth Tuttle '11 interned with the Columbia Journalism Review and Global Post, and published several dispatches from Brazil in the latter. She also spent two summers teaching classes in comparative literature to high school students hosted by Stanford University. She is now writing an honor's thesis in Latin American Studies, "Between Theory and Practice: Gender Across Generations in Paus Branco, Ceará, a Landless Workers Movement Settlement."
Christa Whitney '09 is currently employed full time as an education assistant at the National Yiddish Book Center, where she researches the intersections between Spanish and Yiddish in Latin America.
Meredith Badler '08 wrote and defended a senior honors thesis in comparative literature, "Quest for Representation: Contemporary Post-Holocaust Fiction."
Rosie Haber '06 spent three years as head of Special Education at the Oakland School of the Arts. She is now pursuing an M.F.A. in film at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts Asia in Singapore.
Lauren Lydic '02 recently completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, and recently published her first article in Comparative Literature, "'Noseological' Parody, Gender Discourse, and Yugoslav Feminisms: Following Gogol's 'Nose' to Ugrešic's 'Hot Dog on a Warm Bun'." (Spring 2010).
