
Alya Ansari
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Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature
235 Nicholson Hall
216 Pillsbury Dr SE
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
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Alya Ansari is a Ph.D. candidate in the program in Comparative Literature, with a graduate minor in Moving Image, Media, and Sound Studies. Her research mobilizes Karl Marx’s “critique through presentation” in conversation with Gilles Deleuze’s concept of “expression” to chart the self-effacing operation of the capitalist mode of production and the establishment and destabilization of its sense-making regimes in a comparative exegesis of 19th century British industrial novels and 21st century gig work/office novels
Educational Background
Educational Background
- B.A.: Media & Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Macalester College, 2019
- M.A.: Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, 2022
- Ph.D.: Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, expected 2026
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