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Eva Del Soldato, FIGS chair, has been awarded prestigious Rome Prize

April 24, 2025

 Eva Del Soldato,  Associate Professor of Italian Studies, Graduate Chair of FIGS and Interim Director for the Center for Italian Studies was among the 35 recipients of the Rome Prize 2025-2026 awarded by the American Academy in Rome. 

 The Rome Prize supports innovative fellows in the arts, humanities, and sciences. The scholars and artists explore and create while residing at the Academy’s 11-acre grounds in Rome for five to 10 months.

Liz Rose awarded the 2025 Nancy M. Farris Award

April 22, 2025

Liz Rose has been awarded the 2025 Nancy M. Farris Award by the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies for the best paper by a graduate student.  Liz's paper was entitled "Trans Atlantic Time in the Borderlands: Racialized Gender and Becoming in the Work of Alan Pelaez Lopez."

Congratulations to Liz!

Rosie Poku, PhD, Comparative Literature, receives Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student

April 08, 2025

Rosie Poku, third-year graduate student in the Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program, has received the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student.   

A reception will be held on Wednesday, April 23 at 5:00 p.m. at the Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk.

Congratulations, Rosie!

For list of Penn Global dissertation grant recipients:

https://global.upenn.edu/news-articles/penn-global-announces-2025-cohort-of-dissertation-grant-recipients/

Akhil P. Veetil awarded the Andrea Mitchell Center Graduate Fellowship

April 03, 2025

Akhil P. Veetil, Ph.D. in the South Asia Studies Department and the Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program has been award the 2025-2026  Graduate Fellowship from the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy.

Tova Tachau Comp Lit submatric is 2025 Dean's Scholar

March 19, 2025

Congratulations to Tova Tachau, 2025 Dean's Scholar!

 

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!

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.

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).