Hello! I’m Daniel and I am a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Princeton University with an MA in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, a BA with Honors from Stanford University, and over twelve years of experience in academia, education, mentorship, and librarianship. My research, as well as my personal and professional interests, have all centered on multidisciplinary endeavors that have required me to negotiate various aspects of university, literary, and publishing...
Hello! I’m Daniel and I am a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Princeton University with an MA in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, a BA with Honors from Stanford University, and over twelve years of experience in academia, education, mentorship, and librarianship. My research, as well as my personal and professional interests, have all centered on multidisciplinary endeavors that have required me to negotiate various aspects of university, literary, and publishing bureaucracy. While at Princeton, I served as a teaching assistant for nine different courses where I was in charge of coordinating with professors and fellow teaching staff to ensure students understood and were able to analyze course material at a profound level. I taught a broad range of courses in various academic disciplines, including American studies, translation studies, Slavic studies, English, children’s literature and comparative literature.
At Stanford, I served as a teaching assistant for high schoolers at Stanford’s Pre-Collegiate Studies Program and advised undergraduate students as a dormitory RA. At Princeton, I worked for two years as a Graduate Mentor for first-generation and low income students, helping them transition to their academic and personal life at Princeton. I would also help students build resumes, contact recommenders, and apply for graduate school if they were upperclassmen.
My teaching philosophy is based on wonder. I want to be in awe alongside my students. Sometimes, I teach a subject I know thoroughly, and I enjoy being in awe about how persistently beautiful a work can remain upon repeated encounters. Sometimes, I teach a book I’ve never read, and get to be in awe for the first time alongside my students. Both of these are blessings and the reasons I always eagerly return to teaching, so as to learn from my students.
