Ciara (CC) Barrick

CC Barrick is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan in the Department of Comparative Literature and holds an MA from King's College London and a BA from Stockton University. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and the Department of State's AEIF grant that funded two years of teaching and study in Cyprus. She is also a recipient of a 2025 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award.

Her dissertation focuses on the Cypriot literary journal, Cadences: A journal for literature and the arts in Cyprus (2004-2020) and her interests include island studies, queer ecologies, translation, archives, architecture/landscape, and autotheory. Recent courses taught include ENG125: Paying Attention and CL122: Writing Ecology, Encounter, and Entanglement. 

Languages: Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, Turkish (beginner), Italian (beginner)