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Julia Alekseyeva's new book ANTIFASCISM AND THE AVANT-GARDE: RADICAL DOCUMENTARY IN THE 1960s
February 19, 2025
Please see link for an interview with Julia Alekseyeva on her book published in Jacobin, interviewed by Kristen R. Ghodsee:
https://jacobin.com/2025/02/film-anti-fascism-documentary-1960s
Congratulations JoAnne Dubil!
February 18, 2025
Congratulations to the Program's most important member, JoAnne Dubil, on 45 years at Penn!
Another Translation Award for Deanna Cachoian-Schanz!
February 15, 2025
The 2024 Society of Authors TA First Translation Prize winner: Deanna Cachoian-Schanz and editor Tatiana Ryckman for a translation from Eastern Armenian of A Book, Untitled by Shushan Avagyan (Tilted Axis Press)
"Deanna Cachoian-Schanz’s translation of Shushan Avagyan’s A Book, Untitled is none other than a feat and a triumph.
Ash Maria a finalist for the 2025 Penn Grad Talks
February 15, 2025
PhD Student Ash Maria is a finalist in the Humanities division for the 2025 Penn Grad Talks for "How I’ll Study My 12th Language (and Why Duolingo Isn’t It)." The Humanities category will take place between 1-2 p.m. on Friday, February 21 in Widener Lecture Hall at the Penn Museum (3260 South Street).
Samantha Pious publishes Cactus Flowers: Selected Poems of Judith Teixeira
February 15, 2025
COML PhD Samantha Pious has a new book coming out this June! Cactus Flowers offers verse translations from the Portuguese of Judith Teixeira, perhaps the only bisexual woman poet to publish openly in 1920s Lisbon. Published by Headmistress Press.
Faculty Member Huda Fakhreddine Elected to ACLA Board
January 27, 2025
Huda Fakhreddine has been elected 2nd Vice President of the American Comparative Literature Association's Board. Congratulations, Huda!
PhD Candidate Deanna Cachoian-Schanz Wins Modernist Studies Association Translation Award
October 30, 2024
WINNER: Shushan Avagyan, A Book, Untitled, translated from Armenian by Deanna Cachoian-Schanz (AWST Press, 2023)
Samantha Pious's début poetry collection, Sappho Is Dead, published by Headmistress Press.
May 08, 2024
Headmistress Press is proud to present the debut collection of Samantha Pious SAPPHO IS DEAD
This collection is about queer women’s literary tradition and experimentation—in other words, building a canon of our own.
Please see link: (https://www.amazon.com/Sappho-Dead-Samantha-Pious/dp/B0D29SYTXB)
COMP Lit students honored as Dean's Scholars for 2024
May 03, 2024
The School of Arts and Sciences has bestowed the honor of Dean's Scholar to:
Liam Phillips (Russian and East European Studies and Comparative Literature), the College of Arts and Sciences
Timmy Straw (Comparative Literature and Literary Theory), the Graduate Division- Doctoral Programs
Comparative Literature Undergraduates Inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa 2024
April 09, 2024
One hundred and thirty-one students will be initiated into the Phi Beta Kappa, including nine juniors, eighty-six seniors, and thirty-six 2023 graduates. Among these are three Comparative Literature majors. Two graduating seniors, Liam Phillips and Arthur Wei, and junior, Tovah Tachau.
Congratulations and best wishes to all three from the Comparative Literature Undergraduate Program!