Eva Del Soldato, FIGS chair, has been awarded prestigious Rome Prize
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
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!
COML0052 - Introduction to Psychoanalysis: History, Theory, Practice
Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
402
Title (text only)
Introduction to Psychoanalysis: History, Theory, Practice
Term
2025C
Subject area
COML
Section number only
402
Section ID
COML0052402
Course number integer
52
Meeting times
W 8:30 AM-11:29 AM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
David L Lopez
Jean-Michel Rabate
Jean-Michel Rabate
Description
The course will introduce students to the broad and ever-expanding spectrum of psychoanalytic ideas and techniques, through reading and discussion of major works by some of its most influential figures. We will also read some literary, historical, philosophical, and anthropological works that have special relevance to the psychoanalytic exploration of the human condition. In addition to the other requirements it satisfies, this course may also be counted toward completion of the Psychoanalytic Studies minor (http://web.sas.upenn.edu/psys/). See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
Course number only
0052
Cross listings
ENGL0052402
Fulfills
Arts & Letters Sector
Use local description
No
COML2017 - Modern Iran and the West Through the Lens of Fiction
Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Modern Iran and the West Through the Lens of Fiction
Term
2025C
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML2017401
Course number integer
2017
Meeting times
R 3:30 PM-6:29 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Fatemeh Shams Esmaeili
Description
This undergraduate level course explores key tropes and themes of Iranian modernity through a close reading of Persian novel, short story, travelogue, and memoir. Various literary genres from social realism, to surrealism, magic realism, naturalism, and absurd literature will be introduced with specific reference to Iran's literature and in light of literary theory of novel. This course does not require any prior knowledge of Persian language and literature. Throughout the course, we will be particularly concerned with the relationship between Persian fiction and the West. We will investigate this curious relationship through themes of gender, religion, politics, and war.
Course number only
2017
Cross listings
GSWS2130401, MELC1710401, MELC5720401
Fulfills
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
No
Rosie Poku, PhD, Comparative Literature, receives Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student
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/