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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!
REMEMBERING DANIEL DEWISPELARE (1983-2024), ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND GRADUATE OF THE COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND LITERARY THEORY PROGRAM
January 29, 2024
The University of Pennsylvania Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory and its communities join many others in mourning the untimely passing of our alumnus, Daniel DeWispelare (1983-2024). Daniel was Associate Professor at the George Washington University. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Colorado before coming to Penn to complete his Ph.D. He was Visiting Assistant Professor at Bilkent University in Ankara, Türkiye, before joining the GW Department of English.
Joan DeJean, Professor of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature and Literary Theory died December 2, 2023
December 07, 2023
Joan DeJean, Trustee Professor Emerita of Romance Languages in the School of Arts & Sciences and the Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program, renowned scholar of 17th- and 18th-century French literature, died on December 2 of ALS. She was 75 years old.
The Thomas Salto, Timmy Straw's latest poetry book
November 29, 2023
Picked by the Washington Post as one of The Best Poetry Selections for 2023, Timmy Straw's The Thomas Salto takes its name from a difficult and dangerous move in gymnastics, a leaping triple flip popularized during the last years of the Cold War. Both in its Reagan-grained historicity, and in the human body that bears the leap’s flight and risk, the Thomas salto is a kinetic figure for these poems’ action in time and space.
In Conversation with the 2023 PEN Translates Awards Translators: Deanna Cachoian-Schanz on the Mania of Translation
November 28, 2023
Translator Deanna Cachoian-Schanz was awarded one of the prestigious PEN Translates grants earlier this year for her work on Shushan Avagyan’s Girq-anvernakir: a rich, experimental novel that speaks to repressions, literary legacy, and the expansive collisions between disparate writings, voices, times, and lives.
Words Without Borders on Deanna Cachoian-Schanz's translation of A Book, Untitled by Shushan Avagyan
November 28, 2023
From Tilted Axis Press | A Book, Untitled by Shushan Avagyan, translated from the Armenian by Deanna Cachoian-Schanz.
Words Without Borders
Verses from “Algarabía” by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera's
September 11, 2023
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera's (COML, PhD) poem appeared in The New York Times magazine, September 11, 2023.
Read it in Spanish and English on link https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/magazine/poem-from-algarabia.html
How Emily Wilson Made Homer Modern
September 11, 2023
See Judith Thurman's article in the New Yorker magazine, September 11, 2023, on how Emily Wilson's "vitally urgent translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey strip away the “tarnish of centuries.” "
Link and audio at:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/emily-wilson-profile
English PEN’s flagship grant programme PEN Translates awards 13 titles from 12 countries and 9 languages
August 28, 2023
For Armenian PEN Translates award winner:
A Book, Untitled by Shushan Avagyan (Armenia), translated from the Eastern Armenian by Deanna Cachoian-Schanz. (Tilted Axis Press.)
See complete list of countries and languages:
Hilah Kohen winner of the REEESNe's Carlos Pascual Prize 2023
July 28, 2023
Hilah Kohen is the 2023 First Prize winner of REEESNe's Carlos Pascual Prize for her paper "From Juhuri to Gĩkũyũ: The Global Circulation of Language Choice in the Soviet Era."