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Ariel Resnikoff's new poetry collection wins writers prize
August 13, 2025
COML PhD '19 grad, Ariel Resnikoff's 2020 poetry collection Unnatural Bird Migrator recently won an Anne & Robert Cowan Writers Prize from the Jewish Federation of the Bay Area for excellence & innovation in contemporary Jewish literature.
Liz Rose, COML PhD, translated Cuban poet Iliana Rosabal-Pérez's Quinta necesidad (Fifth Necessity)
May 07, 2025
Liz Rose translates from Spanish and Portuguese and is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania, where they research Black feminist theories, trans theories, and contemporary cultures of the Americas.
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!