#  Renée Ragin Randall 

Class of 2010, Postcolonial Studies

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

 

 

 



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**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.

**Follow Me:** [reneeraginrandall.com](http://www.reneeraginrandall.com)  
  
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.



 

 

 





 

 

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