COLT associate professor Jenifer Presto is editor of a new series, East European and Eurasian Ecologies: Past, Present, and Future (Academic Studies Press). This series is devoted to work on the environmental humanities in Eastern Europe and Eurasia—a region that has been the site of its fair ...

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 ...

Michael Allan in conversation with the Abounaddara Collective. On Thursday, May 6, Prof. Michael Allan discussed the films of the Lumière brothers with members of the Abounddara Collective. This transatlantic and transcontinental discussion, carried on between speakers in Paris, New York and ...

One Hundred Years of Solitude and the Magic of Narrative

The opening line of the 1967 novel, One Hundre Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez, is often invoked as the most perfectly-crafted sentence in literature: “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano ...

On October 30, Professor Kenneth Calhoon delivered his talk, “Precious Blood: Anemia and Melancholy in  Murnau’s Nosferatu and Stoker’s Dracula” as part of a colloquium for the Honors Program at Susquehanna University. The talk, which Prof. Calhoon recorded on video for presentation ...

Congratulations to COLT Ph.D. student Iida Pöllänen, who has been recognized with the prestigious Graduate Teaching Excellence Award! The Graduate Teaching Excellence Award is designed to recognize outstanding teaching performance by experienced graduate employees (GEs) who have demonstrated a ...

COLT Ph.D. student Martha Ndakalako-Bannikov’s most recent essay, titled, “Tank Park’s Children: Recreational Activities of Namibian Children in Oranjemund during the 1980s” has just appeared in print, as part of the collection, Africa Everyday: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the ...

Professor Kenneth Calhoon delivered an invited lecture at Johns Hopkins titled “Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern.” He gave a version of the same talk, titled “Expressionist Cinema and the Romantic Modern,” at the UO.

Please join the Department of Comparative Literature in celebrating the release of the 2019 “TRACE” edition of nomad, the journal of undergraduate writing. Tuesday, October 8 5:30 p.m., EMU Maple Room

Anna Baumeister has published one of her dissertation chapters, “‘Sie scheint auch mehr zu donnern und zu blitzen, als zu reden.’ Zur Meteorologisierung der Sprache im Drama der 1770er Jahre” in The Studied Environment, a special issue of The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory.

Congratulations to Iida Pöllanen, who has been awarded both the Norman Brown Graduate Fellowship from the College of Arts and Sciences and a Willa Cather Foundation research grant. These awards enable Iida to take advantage of her admission into the prestigious, 6-day intensive workshop held by the ...

Please join us for another brilliant evening as Nomad speakers Dr. Andréa Gilroy  and Michelle Crowson give their takes on Trace as part of our Nomad Speaker’s Series. The title of Dr. Gilroy’s talk is,  “The Trace of the Translator: Words and Images in Comics.” Michelle Crowson will ...