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The Comparative Literature Nomad Mentorship Program presents:
“The Silence of the Sirens” by Ken Calhoon
Professor, Departments of German and Scandinavian and Comparative Literature“Alternative Voices: Is Silence Golden?” by Yewulsew Endalew
PhD candidate, ...Prof. K. Calhoon to give work-in-progress talk
On Friday, January 15th, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m., Ken Calhoon will be presenting a lecture as part of the School of Languages and Global Studies seminar series. The lecture is titled “A Pause in the Action: Reflections on a Cinematic Gesture.” It is taken from Prof. Calhoon’s recently completed ...
Readings of Personal Essays from the Anthology, Fury: Women’s Lived Experiences in the Trump Era
How do we find the language to communicate an experience so often described as unprecedented? Trumpian discourse claims the mantle of authenticity; the essayists in this volume propose an alternative.
Readers include: Dina Elenbogen, Mahin Ibrahim, Alissa Hirshfeld-Flores, Heidi Hutner, Cassandra ...
Spring Dissertation Defenses in COLT!
Join us this month for three exciting dissertation defenses!
On Wednesday, May 20, at 2 p.m., Tera Reid-Olds will present and defend, ““The Cross-Currents of Exilic Storytelling: Multilingual Memory and the Maritime Shift” (directed by Michael Allan).
On Thursday, May 28, at ...
Middlebrook runs virtual Hispanic poetry festival, “Cancionero de abril y mayo”
During the months of April and May, Prof. Leah Middlebrook is leading the online poetry festival, “Cancionero de abril y mayo.”
The festival is produced by the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. Each day, the Society releases a short video in which a contributor reads a poem ...
Nov. 15-16 – Symposium on Race, Racialization and the Early Modern – Emerging views
COLT invites you to join guests David Sterling Brown (SUNY Binghamton), Nick Jones (Bucknell U), Christina Lee (Princeton) and Marc Schacter (Durham, U.K.) and respondents Lara Bovilsky (ENG), Leah Middlebrook (COLT), Amanda Powell (RL) and David Wacks (RL) as we consider new research and emerging ...
What Matters to Me
Please mark your calendars for the first installment of our Comparative Literature works-in-progress series, What Matters to Me!
Our fall term speaker is Jenifer Presto (COLT/REEES). Professor Presto will present her talk, “Afterglow: Nabokov, Pompeii, and the Atomic Age” on Friday, November 1, ...