Graduate Student Representatives
Carol Fischer
(Theater and Dance)
Carol received her MA in Theater Arts at San Jose State University
in 2004. Her thesis research applying quantum physics concepts
and language to theater theory will continue towards a dissertation
topic. She has worked in theater production for the past 20
years in positions ranging from producer and stage manager
to costume, light, sound designer and set painter. Most recently
Carol has been a facility manager, teacher of technical theater,
and designer at a junior college in San Jose, and maintains
a current Secondary Teaching Credential in English. She has
presented papers at CETA, ATHE, Comparative Drama Conference,
and the Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities.
While at UCSB, Carol has directed a one act play for Grad
Directed One Acts and taught a class in Musical Theater History.
David Platzer
(Comparative Literature)
David is a first year graduate student in the the Comparative
Literature department. His research interests include representations
of the autocrat in contemporary West African literature, Nigerian
digital film and melodrama, soap operas of the global south,
Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze's work on cinema and its potential
engagement with national cinemas, terrorism, cognitive approaches
to culture , and post-semiotic (i.e. sensory) approaches to
narrative media.
Marthine Satris (English)
Marthine Satris is a PhD student in the English Department. She received her M.A. from University College Dublin in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama in 2005. Her current academic interests include contemporary lyric and experimental poetry, Irish literature, and ecocriticism. Before becoming a department representative, she received a CLTC grant to attend the 2006 conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, held in Sydney, Australia.
Tracy Jamison
(Classics)
I am a Houston native with a bachelor's degree in Classics
from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. My master's degree
is also in Classics from the University of Kansas, and I am
in my 4th year of my PhD program here at UCSB. My interests
lie in the performance of ancient dramatic texts, and currently
I am applying for a Fulbright to study Modern Greek performance
of Euripidean tragedy.
Art Kölzow (French & Italian)
Art Kölzow is a doctoral student in the department of
French and Italian, focusing on the philosophy of the French
Enlightenment. His primary interest is on the ways that reason
and pseudo-reason were used to discuss and critique the social
and intellectual situation of the period. He is also curious
about the Enlightenment as a social movement, particularly
its lasting effects on Western thought (even after the rise
of postmodernism).
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