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Professor Ania Loomba honored with the Charles Homer Haskins Prize
October 28, 2022
Professor Ania Loomba honoredComp Lit graduates to begin new job positions
June 30, 2022
Veronique Charles has received a 3-year post doc from Columbia University's Society of Fellows.
Lucas de Lima will be Visiting Assistant Professor in creative writing at Holyoke.
Bryan Norton has received a three-year post doc from the Mellon Society of Fellows at Stanford University.
Cory Knudson will be Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Eckerd College.
Zain Mian has been offered a tenure track position as Professor of Urdu at the University of Toronto to begin July 2023.
Rachel Salas Rivera's poem is title for Whitney Museum's exhibit no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria
May 26, 2022
no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria is organized to coincide with the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Maria—a category 5 storm that hit Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017. The exhibition explores how artists have responded to the transformative years since that event by bringing together more than fifty artworks made over the last five years by an intergenerational group of more than fifteen artists from Puerto Rico and the diaspora.
Anat Dan and Anirudh Karnick awarded grants from The Sachs Program in Arts Innovation
May 16, 2022
Two Comparative Literature graduate students Anat Dan and Anirudh Karnick were recipients for the 2022 Sacks Program grants.
Comparative Literature Students awarded The Arthur M. Daemmrich and Alfred Guenther Memorial Prize
April 21, 2022
Three graduate students in Comparative Literature were awarded The Arthur M.
Angelina Eimannsberger receives Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
April 03, 2022
Congratulations to Angelina Eimannsberger, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program, on being awarded the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students.
Avram Alpert's book THE GOOD-ENOUGH LIFE coming out April 19
April 03, 2022
Avram Alpert, a graduate of the Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program, has written a new book The Good-Enough Life (Princeton U. Press) to be released on April 19th (North America) and June 14th (UK/Europe). The book argues that in an imperfect world, everyone should have decency and sufficiency, and no one should have too much. It looks at the far-reaching implications of that simple statement for individuals, relationships, society, and nature.
Sherif H. Ismail publishes in Life Writing
March 25, 2022
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February 13, 2022
Follow us on INSTRAGRAM:Véronique Charles and Nico Fonseca named 2021-22 Dean's Scholars
January 24, 2022
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.