People
Undergraduate Fellows
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Alex Anderson
Comparative Literature
College, 2018
Project: Beckett at the Limits of Language: An Analysis of Worstward Ho and its French Translation
Alex is a junior from Havertown, PA. He is majoring in Comparative Literature with a concentration in Literary Theory and speaks French and German. His research interests include modernism and modernity, post-... (more)
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Juan Cabrera
Linguistics
College, 2017
Project: The Language of Reputation and Scandal: Translations of Lived Experiences in Spanish, English, and Spanglish Oral Narratives
Juan is a Linguistics major who is interested in phonetics, psycholinguistics, and pragmatics. He is also a Fine Arts minor concentrating in drawing and graphic design. He speaks English, Spanish, Italian, and... (more)
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Gerardo Cedillo
Chemistry; Materials Science & Engineering
College; Engineering; 2017
Project: The insidious network: Translating the invasive biology of the Cuban marabú tree into a model for radical politics
Gerardo is enrolled in the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research, pursuing a dual degree in Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering and a minor in Fine Arts. His senior design project consists of... (more)
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Mary Lindsay Cerulli
Health and Societies
College, 2017
Project: Go Ask the Midwife: Understanding Midwives as Practical Policy Translators in South Africa’s Urban Maternal Health Landscape
The legacy of gendered professionalization, the racial hierarchy of apartheid, and profound health care policy changes in the post-apartheid era, facilitated a specific scrutiny of maternity nurses working in the... (more)
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Gabriel Ferrante
Biochemistry, Philosophy
College, 2017
Project: Es mi Shakespeare su Shakespeare? Pronoun Formality in Spanish Translations of Hamlet
In addition to his dual major in Biochemistry and Philosophy, Gabriel Ferrante is a submatriculant in the Masters of Chemistry program, interests that are unified by a desire to understand the physical and... (more)
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Michael Karam
Steering Committee, Undergraduate Humanities Forum
Economics and International Relations
College, 2017
Project: The Lebanese M Community: Identities Lost (or Found) in Translation
Michael is a senior studying economics and international relations with a math minor who loves languages. Broadly speaking, he is interested in researching the relation between media and politics across languages and... (more)
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Ray Lahiri
Chair, Steering Committee, Undergraduate Humanities Forum
Classical Studies, Comparative Literature
College, 2017
Project: Hic interim liber: Commentary and Tacitus’s Agricola in 19th Century England
Ray is a Classics and Comparative Literature major concentrating in Languages and Literature and Literary and Cultural Theory. When not wrangling with Greek or Latin syntax, his studies have included political theory... (more)
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Nathan May
English, Classics
College, 2017
Project: "To Thine Own Self Be True:" Quoting the Shakespearean Maxim from 1600 to the Present
Hailing from Seattle, Washington, Nathan is a senior in the College majoring in English and Classical Studies. While he enjoys studying literature of all periods, from antiquity to the present, he has focused... (more)
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Thomas Myers
English
College, 2018
Project: Translating the Event: Aesthetics of the Post-9/11 Disaster Genre
Thomas Myers is an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania studying Art History and English with a concentration in Cinema Studies. His primary areas of interest include American literature after WWII,... (more)
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Chloe Nurik
Steering Committee, Undergraduate Humanities Forum
History
College, 2017
Project: Collegiate Masculinity and the Rise of American Youth Culture in the Jazz Age
Chloe is a senior, majoring in History with minors in English, Classical Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. As a Benjamin Franklin Scholar, she participated in the Integrated Studies Program her... (more)
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Kyle Tebo
Philosophy
College, 2017
Project: Transmission of Greek Philosophical Vocabulary into Latin through Cicero
Kyle Tebo is a senior from Houston, Texas. He studied International business and Mandarin at The Wharton School before transferring to The College to study philosophy and economics. His research for PHF focuses on... (more)