Each year the School of Arts and Sciences hosts the Stephen A. Levin Family Dean’s Forum to honor outstanding students for their academic performance and intellectual promise by designating them as Dean’s Scholars. This year, TWO of these outstanding students come from COMPARATIVE LITERATURE.
Our Graduate Dean's Scholar is Véronique Charles, Ph.D. student in the Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program. Véronique's research focuses on Atlantic slavery from an African Continental perspective. She uses both archival and literary analysis of contemporary fiction to trouble the geographical, temporal and linguistic boundaries into which studies of slavery are often enclosed. Véronique will be defending her PhD thesis, which is supervised by Prof. David Kazanjian, this spring. Congratulations, Véronique!
Congratulations also go to Nico Fonseca, a senior Comparative Literature Major from Florida. Nico’s research, primarily with the guidance of Professors Jean-Michel Rabaté and Jennifer Ponce de Leon, concerns the possibility of social change at the intersection of class struggle and Indigenous politics. In particular, Nico works to theorize the contemporary and historical potential of cinema in anti-colonial and decolonial struggle in the Western hemisphere.
Please come celebrate these wonderful students, and others, at The Forum. The Forum is a celebration of the arts and sciences at Penn and features a leading intellectual figure who will give a public lecture to the University community at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 17, 2022, in the Harrison Auditorium of the Penn Museum.