Comparative Literature doctoral student Anna Kovalchuk was recently awarded the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute's "Theodosius and Irene Senkowsky Prize for Demonstrated Achievement in Ukrainian Studies." Congratulations, Anna!Welcome
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Comp Lit courtesy professor Ibrahim Muhawi wins the PEN 2011 award for his translation of Mahmoud Darwish's Journal of an Ordinary Grief.
Muhawi was born in Palestine in 1937, and received his higher education in English literature at the University of California, Davis (1969). He has taught at universities in Canada, Tunisia, Jordan, Palestine, Scotland, Germany, and USA. From 1997-2002 he was Director of the graduate program in Translation Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
After the appearance of Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales in 1989, Muhawi turned his attention to the study and translation of Palestinian and Arabic literature and folklore. In addition to Journal of an Ordinary Grief (Archipelago Books, 2010), he also translated Darwish's Memory for Forgetfulness (1995), and Breaking Knees, by the Syrian writer Zakaria Tamer. Muhawi is the author of a number of articles on Arabic literature, folk narrative, and translation, and is co-editor of Literature and Nation in the Middle East (2006).
He is currently working on an extended study of Mahmoud Darwish and translating To Be Among the Almond Trees, a poetic prose memoir of the last days of the Palestinian poet Hussein al-Baarghouti.
This is, once again, wonderful and well-deserved. Hearty congratulations to you!
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Sister Helen Prejean visits Capstone
Sister Helen Prejean, world-famous author of Dead Man Walking and longtime activist against the death penalty, visits Dr. Emily Taylor's Capstone Seminar. The Capstone Seminar (COLT 415) offers Comparative Literature Majors an unparalleled opportunity to work one-on-one with a mentor and delve into and advanced research project. For some students, their work in COLT 415 forms the basis of a senior honor's thesis.
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Who owns Shakespeare's words? Freshman Interest Group views play about play
Students in COLT 101 FIG (Freshman Interest Group) had the opportunity to accompany professor Leah Middlebrook and art history professor Jeffrey Hurwit to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival on Oct. 22.
They saw the play "The African Company Presents Richard III"