Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics
University of Chicago Press
2018
Legacies of the Rue Morgue
University of Pennsylvania Press
2015
Deanna Cachoian-Schanz's book review in the Armenian Review
Deanna Cachoian-Schanz published her first book review, "Deviations: A Translator's Note on Shushan Avagyan's Book, untitled," in a special edition of the Armenian Review called Queering Armenian Studies (edited by Tamar Shirinian and Carina Karapetian Giorgi) with an introduction by Penn professor David Kazanjian.
Ericka Beckman
My research focuses primarily on the relationship between economics and literary form nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America. My first book, Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America's Export Age (Minnesota, 2013), studied how literature imagined the incorporation of the region's economies into world commodity markets at the end of the nineteenth century.
An Aesthetics of Injury
Northwestern University Press
2018
Emily Wilson’s Odyssey translation is short listed for the National Translation Award
Emily Wilson’s fresh take on this ancient Homeric epic is both scholarly exacting and a pleasure to read.
Comp Lit PH.D. student, Raquel Salas-Rivera, featured in WHYY's Radio Times.
Philadelphia’s new Poet Laureate Raquel Salas-Rivera holds many identities — queer, non-binary, Puerto Rican, Philadelphian — and uses the gender-neutral pronoun “they.” Rivera sometimes reads their poetry first in Spanish, even when most of the people in their audience aren’t Spanish speakers. “I believe the discomfort can be a teaching movement,” they say.