Please see link for an interview with Julia Alekseyeva on her book published in Jacobin, interviewed by Kristen R. Ghodsee:

 https://jacobin.com/2025/02/film-anti-fascism-documentary-1960s

Congratulations to the Program's most important member, JoAnne Dubil, on 45 years at Penn!

COML PhD Samantha Pious has a new book coming out this June! Cactus Flowers offers verse translations from the Portuguese of Judith Teixeira, perhaps the only bisexual woman poet to publish openly in 1920s Lisbon. Published by Headmistress Press.

PhD Student Ash Maria is a finalist in the Humanities division for the 2025 Penn Grad Talks for "How I’ll Study My 12th Language (and Why Duolingo Isn’t It)." The Humanities category will take place between 1-2 p.m. on Friday, February 21 in Widener Lecture Hall at the Penn Museum (3260 South Street). 

The 2024 Society of Authors TA First Translation Prize winner: Deanna Cachoian-Schanz and editor Tatiana Ryckman for a translation from Eastern Armenian of A Book, Untitled by Shushan Avagyan (Tilted Axis Press)

"Deanna Cachoian-Schanz’s translation of Shushan Avagyan’s A Book, Untitled is none other than a feat and a triumph.