Leah Chase is an undeclared freshman, hoping to double major in English and Art History. In her free time, she enjoys reading and writing poetry, discovering new music, and taking lots and lots of walks.
Featured lab member
Featured project
That Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press was the first publisher to make German poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s work available in English is a rarely known, and astonishing, fact. This project aims to explore this largely unknown link between two of the most important modernist writers of the 20thcentury.
Ellis Schriefer
PhD Candidate, Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Ellis Schriefer is a third year PhD candidate in ILAC at Stanford University. She studies contemporary Spanish social movements, urban activism, and community-established public spaces (espacios autogestionados), with an emphasis on understanding how diverse communities establish a sense of collective identity through their social practices and cultural production.
Ellis holds a BA in Spanish from the University of Otago (New Zealand), and an MA in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literature from New York University.