COLT Associate Professor Leah Middlebrook’s new book, Amphion: Lyre, Poiesis, and Politics in Modernity, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press.  Anchored in Renaissance Humanist interpretations of the myth of Amphion, King of Thebes, this book recovers an overlooked poetic ...

Comparative Literature Associate Professor Monique Balbuena has (1) received a teaching grant from the Holocaust Educational Foundation from Northwest University to design a Holocaust course, (2) been selected to participate in HEFNU’s Regional Institute on Visual Culture and the Holocaust, in ...

Katya Hokanson has published “Tolstoy, Taraknath Das, Mohandas Gandhi and Their Transnational Reading Publics,” Tolstoy Studies Journal (Vol. XXXIV, 2022): 18-30.  

Comparative Literature Associate Professor Jenifer Presto has been appointed editor of a new book series titled East European and Eurasian Ecologies: Past, Present, and Future (Academic Studies Press). This is the first book series on the environmental humanities in Slavic Studies. Click here to ...

Katya Hokanson has been named Rippey Senior Teaching Fellow for 2022-24. This award provides substantial funding meant to assist Professor Hokanson in the development of her new course, “Slavic Vampires,” which she will inaugurate in Spring of 2023 as COLT 232. These awards, which are funded ...

Comparative Literature Associate Professor Monique Rodrigues Balbuena has been invited to participate in the 2022 Curt C. and Else Silberman Seminar for Faculty, on Teaching Holocaust Photographs, funded by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. Using the resources ...

Comparative Literature Assistant Professor Tze-Yin Teo has published If Babel Had a Form: Translating Equivalence in the Twentieth-Century Transpacific (Fordham University Press 2022). To cite from the publisher’s blurb, it is a book that “illuminates the demanding force of even the slightest ...

Comparative Literature Associate Professor Michael Allan spoke as part of a Seminar on the History of Photography, co-organized by the School of Cinematic Arts (USC) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Professor Allan’s lecture, titled “Global Visions, Local Histories: The Lumière ...

Comparative Literature Associate Professor Michael Allan is the recipient of the prestigious Modern Languages Association Prize for a First Book for his In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt. The text of the award reads as follows: Michael Allan’s In the Shadow of ...

Associate Professor Katya Hokanson has published A Woman’s Empire: Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia University of Toronto Press. Professor Hokanson’s book explores a new dimension of Russian imperialism, that of women actively engaged in the process of late imperial expansion, ...

Associate Professor Monique Balbuena has recently joined the faculty of Comparative Literature. Professor Balbuena’s research concerns the relationship between language and identity, specifically how multilingual writers construct their identity through their choice of languages and intertexts. ...

Kenneth Calhoon, Professor of Comparative Literature and German, has published The Long Century’s Long Shadow: Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern (University of Toronto Press). This book approaches German Romanticism and Weimar cinema as continuous developments, enlisting both in a narrative of ...