Recent Alumni

Damjan Rakonjac earned two PhDs from UCLA: one in Musicology (2023) and a second in French & Francophone Studies (2024). Damjan is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology at…

Arpi Melikyan is a Ph.D. candidate in the French section of the Department of European Languages & Transcultural Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. Her doctoral research examines representations…

Megan Tomlinson is a PhD candidate in the Italian section of the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies. Her research interests include representations of power, identity, and space in…

Lernik Hovsepyan was a PhD Candidate in French Studies, with interest in 18th century French literature and philosophy, the dialogue form and metacognition. Lernik holds two Master’s degrees in French…

Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert was a Ph.D. student in Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Los Angeles. His doctoral research centered on developing a methodology for incorporating lost or…