Renée Ragin Randall

Renée Ragin Randall

Class of 2010, Postcolonial Studies
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies, University of Michigan
Renee Randall

Thesis Title: Picking up the Pieces: The Literary Re-Negotiation of History in the Post-Trujillo Dominican Republic

What Now: Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies, University of Michigan

What Next: I am currently working on a book project tentatively titled Laying Claim: Narrative and Atrocity in Lebanon's Wars. I also conduct research on the circulation of literature across the Global South, particularly Latin America/the Caribbean and the Middle East.

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After graduating from Harvard, I joined the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer where I served in Washington D.C. and Saudi Arabia. About three years in, I found myself caught quite off-guard: my experiences were steering me back towards my former research interests in cultural representations of psychic responses to civilian political violence. My thesis advisors had long predicted a PhD would be in my future, and after much deliberation, I had to admit that they were right! I returned to school, graduating with my PhD in Literature in 2020 from Duke University.