Sasha McDowell

Sasha McDowell is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative and World Literatures, where she studies French, Spanish, and Russian literature and film. Her research explores the effects of war and totalitarian regimes on cultural and literary production, particularly the intersection of violence, sexuality, and embodiment in Modernist and avant-garde movements across Europe, the Soviet Union, and Latin America. Presently, she is working on a dissertation which examines the function of violence, fragmentation, and affect in the film scenarios of Antonin Artaud, Federico García Lorca, and Vladimir Mayakovsky.