On October 19th Comparative Literature doctoral candidate Elizabeth Howard successfully defended her dissertation “The Singing Bone: Collective Creativity and the Creation of a Queer Imaginary” (Professor Dianne Dugaw, diretor). Elizabeth has been appointed Instructor of Swedish in the ...

On September 8th, 2020 Comparative Literature doctoral student Daria Smirnova successfully defended her dissertation, “The Language Zone: Joseph Brodsky and the Making of a Bilingual Poet.” Directed by Professor Jenifer Presto, Dr. Smirnova will be teaching Russian at Portland State University ...

On May 20th, 2020 Comparative Literature Doctoral student Tera Reid-Olds successfully defended her dissertation, “The Cross-Currents of Exilic Storytelling: Multilingual Memory and the Maritime Shift.” Directed by Professor Michael Allan, Reid-Olds’ study proposes a practice of reading ...

On May 29th, 2020 Comparative Literature Doctoral student Palita Chunsaengchan successfully defended her dissertation, “Competitive Aesthetic Regimes: Intermedial Translations and Early Thai Cinema (1880-1942).” Under the direction of Professor Sangita Gopal, Chunsaengchan considered the ...

On May 28th, 2020 Comparative Literature doctoral student Iida Pöllänen successfully defended her dissertation, “Transnational Peripheries: Narratives of Countryside, Migration, and Community in American and Nordic Modernisms” (Professor Mark Whalan, director). During her time at Oregon, ...

Jamie Richards received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Oregon in 2014, writing a dissertation titled La vita agradolce­—a study that makes the case for the centrality of translation as not merely the link between Italian and world literature but also the defining literary practice ...

Emily McGinn Emily McGinn received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon in 2014. She earned her certificate in New Media and Culture the same year. She wrote her dissertation with Prof. Paul Peppis. Upon graduation, Emily received a postdoctoral fellowship in digital ...

On December 17th, 2019 Anna-Lisa Baumeister successfully defended her dissertation, “Critical Climates: Sturm und Drang and the Radical Poetics of Nature.” Directed by Professor Martin Klebes, Baumeister’s thesis brings continental philosophy, poetics and eco-criticism to bear on an impressive ...

In May of 2019 Comparative Literature doctoral student Bess Myers defended her dissertation, “Speaking after Silence: Presidential Rhetoric in the Wake of Catastrophe.” Directed by Professor James Crosswhite, Myer’s study analyzes a selection of speeches delivered by Barack Obama during his ...

In May of 2019 Comparative Literature doctoral student Ying Xiong defended her dissertation, “Herbs and Beauty: Gendered Poethood and Translated Affect in Late Imperial and Early Modern China.” Directed by Professor Yugen Wang, Xiong’s thesis traces the origins and character of Chinese ...

Baran Germen, who completed his Ph.D. at Oregon in 2019, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Colorado College, Colorado Springs. His research and teaching focus on global cinema and comparative media studies, ranging across melodrama, queer theory, and ...

Andréa Gilroy operates and curates Books with Pictures, located at 99 W. Broadway, Suite C, in Eugene. The store was recently featured in the Register Guard as one of eight local business that are flourishing despite the Covid pandemic. The store features new comics and graphic novels, with a ...