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Teaching Assistant, GSWS 002: Gender and Society, Fall 2020
Adam is a 5th year PhD candidate in the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, working on a dissertation provisionally titled, “A Continuum of Loss: Productive Melancholia and Aporetic Loss in Twentieth-Century Elegy.” This comparative project focuses on elegy and the formation of the genre in the 20th century through an archive of German-Jewish, Queer, and Yiddish-American poets.