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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!
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!