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. In 2017, he published his book, Multilingual Subjects: On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long Eighteenth Century. Daniel will be remembered as a witty, generous, and brilliant member of many circles and conversations at Penn. We extend our sympathy to his family, friends, colleagues, and students in this moment of loss and sadness. We hold him and those he touched in our hearts.