Kristen R. Ghodsee
Professor
Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, she has won many awards for her work, and has written six academic books on gender, socialism, and postsocialism, examining the everyday experiences of upheaval and displacement that continue to haunt the region to this day.
Emily Wilson reads from her translation of the Odyssey with a twist
Emily Wilson reads from her translation.
Comp Lit Students Receive Awards and Fellowships
Comparative Literature and Literary Theory students who have received awards and fellowships for summer 2020 or for the academic year, 2020-2021:
Angelina Eimannsberger has been selected as the Price Lab Andrew W. Mellon Summer Research Fellow in the Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania for summer 2020. She will be conducting a research project on the all-digital Reese Witherspoon's Book Club.