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Sophia Lencioni

Sophia Lencioni

PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature
University of California, Los Angeles

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Sophia Lencioni is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at UCLA. She completed her undergraduate studies in German and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University. Areas of specialty include: border studies, literature of migration, posthumanism, multispecies studies, animal studies and translation studies. Her dissertation compares German language literature and Latin American literature of the 20th and 21st centuries with a focus on animal and plant imagery, metaphors, and characters.

Personal Statement

I was born and raised in Mexico City where I lived until I moved to the United States for university. I grew up in a multilingual and multicultural household, attending international schools K-12. The principle of cross-cultural sensitivity is thus something that was ingrained in me since birth. Upon moving to the U.S. for my bachelor’s degree, I faced intense culture shock due to homogeneity both inside and out of the classroom. When faced with this isolating and alienating experience, I turned to authors who explored their own alienations and strangeness: Kafka, Cortázar, Han Kang, etc. As an educator, I wish to transform the classroom by platforming marginalized voices and looking to the margins, to the forgotten, to the animal, to the environment. I do this by reading literatures from around the world, from national canons and the margins. The literature I work with is transnational, multicultural, and multilingual in nature.

Translation studiesPosthumanismLiterature of migrationBorder literatureAnimal studiesGerman language and literatureSpanish language and literature
Education
  • BA in Comparative Literature — Northwestern University
  • BA in German Studies — Northwestern University
  • MA in Comparative Literature — University of California, Los Angeles
Teaching Experience
  • Teaching Assistant of Comparative Literature — University of California, Los Angeles
  • Instructor of Comparative Literature — University of California, Los Angeles

Courses by Sophia Lencioni

Literary Metamorphoses: Humans, Non-human Animals, and Plants
Literature & Language

Literary Metamorphoses: Humans, Non-human Animals, and Plants

Oct 15-Nov 5 (4 Lessons)Thu, 1:00-2:30am UTCUp to 17 students$100
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