Ahmad Nadalizadeh, who received his Ph.D. in our department in the Summer of 2021, has accepted the offer of an assistant professorship in the Honors College at the University of Wyoming. The courses he will be teaching in Laramie include “Cinema of the Middle East,” “The Politics of Cinema ...

COLT doctoral candidate Marena Lear is this year’s recipient of the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Jane Grant Dissertation Award. The award will enable Marena to dedicate a year to the completion of her project, the title of which is “Their Bodies, Our Selves: Posthuman ...

Maya Larson, who received her PhD in Comparative Literature last spring, has been offered an appointment as an ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow in Translation Studies at Princeton University. The American Council of Learned Societies created the Emerging Voices Fellowship program to support ...

On May 24th, 2022, Comparative Literature doctoral candidate Robin Okumu successfully defended her dissertation, “Utopian Relationality: Intercorporeal Subjectivity in French Feminist Fiction” (Prof. Natalie Hester, director). “Utopian Relationality,” a term of Okumu’s invention, provides ...

Comparative Literature doctoral candidate Nadège Lejeune has placed an article titled “Of littérature-monde as an Untranslatable” in the peer-reviewed Journal of World Literature. The essay is to be published in the upcoming June issue.

Comparative Literature Doctoral Candidate Pearl Lee has just published a chapter in an edited volume on renowned contemporary Chinese author Yan Lianke. Her essay, “Corrective Catachresis: Capitalist Mystification Derailed in The Explosion Chronicles and “The Story of Fertile Town,” in The ...

Comparative Literature doctoral candidate Jason Lester presented “The Invisibility of Sino-US translators in American Modernism” as part of the Calgary Institute of the Humanities workshop, “Translators’ [In]visibilities.” The full program, which featured keynote addresses by Chana ...

Comparative Literature graduate student Nick Wirtz has an article forthcoming in the journal Punctum. Titled “The Repeatable Hand and the Mediated Self in Mira Jacob’s Good Talk.” The essay is to be published this March in a special issue on “The Social, Political and Ideological Semiotics ...

Comparative Literature doctoral candidate Laurel Sturgis O’Coyne is this year’s recipient of the Owen Aldridge Prize for her essay “Toward Weaving/Reading Hemispheric Land and Literature.” The essay will appear in the journal Comparative Literature Studies. A description of the prize and ...

On May 21st Comparative Literature candidate Martha Ndakalako successfully defended her dissertation, “Borders of the Global Anglophone: Locality, Language and Feminist Futures in Namibian Literature.” Directed by Prof. Michael Allan, Martha’s study treats Namibia and Southern Africa as ...

On May 17th Comparative Literature Doctoral Candidate Robert Moore successfully defended his dissertation, “Paris by Way of the Moon: Translations of French Popular Fiction in Late Qing China (1899-1912)” (Professor Roy Chan, Director). The dissertation explores ways in which Chinese translators ...

On November 24th Michelle Crowson successfully defended her dissertation, “Before the World: Kaga no Chiyo and the Rustic-Feminine Margins of Japanese Haiku.” Her thesis was supervised by Professor Glynne Walley (East Asian Languages and Literatures). Crowson was also the recipient of the 2019 ...