Melanie Masterton Sherazi

Education:

B.A., University of California, San Diego, Communication; M.A., California State University, Los Angeles, English; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, English

Dissertation:

Posthumous Afterlives: Ecstatic Readings of Post-1945 American Literature

Thesis Advisor:

Katherine Kinney, Professor of English, University of California, Riverside

Research Topic:

African American Expatriate Culture in Postwar Rome and William Demby’s Transnational Work in Literature, Journalism and the Italian Cinema

Mentor:

Richard Yarborough, Professor of English and African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position:

Lecturer, Humanities and Social Sciences Division, California Institute of Technology

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