Amanda Kubic

Candidate statement

Amanda Kubic is a current PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Amanda graduated from UNC Chapel Hill in 2016 with a BA in Comparative Literature and Classics and from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018 with an MA in Classics. Amanda also holds an MA in Greek from the University of Michigan and is pursuing a graduate certificate in Women's and Gender Studies. Amanda has taught courses in world literature, college writing, and elementary modern Greek. Her dissertation, "Animating Antiquity: Classical (Dis)embodiments by Modern Women," is a critical engagement with Greco-Roman antiquity and its reception; in this comparative project, Amanda analyzes modernist and postmodern works by women in poetry and dance, in English and modern Greek, demonstrating how they perform fragmented, choral, metamorphosing, and phantom aspects of the classical Greco-Roman corpus. As an MGSA graduate student representative, Amanda hopes to foster interdisciplinary conversation among graduate students interested in all aspects of the study of modern Greece, Cyprus, and the Greek diaspora. She aims to continue building a sense of community among MGSA scholars of all levels, with particular emphasis on increasing graduate student engagement in MGSA activities and forums.