Leaning Against This Late Hour: Poems by Garous Abdolmalekian, a volume Ahmad Nadalizadeh co-translated with Idra Novey, has been accepted by Penguin Press. The book is scheduled to be published in April 2020. Congratulations, Ahmad!

Tera Reid-Olds’ article “Mobility and Memory: Maritime Crossings of the Storyteller in Marie-Célie Agnant’s Le Livre d’Emma and Gabriella Ghermandi’s Regina di fiori e di perle” has been accepted for publication in the forthcoming  issue (April 2019) of The Cambridge Journal of ...

Kenneth Calhoon delivered papers at the annual meetings of the German Studies Association (Pittsburgh) and the American Comparative Literature Association (Washington, D. C.), as well as at the International Brecht Symposium (Leipzig) and a conference at the University of London titled “Memories ...

“The Philological Swamp, or, What Nineteenth-Century Fiction Teaches Us About the Humanities” Please join us for a Work-In-Progress talk by Katy Brundan on Friday, October 19, 4 p.m., in 312 Villard.

Baran Germen has accepted the offer of a Assistant Professorship for 2019-2020 in Film Studies at Colorado College.

Comparative Literature doctoral candidate Ahmad Nadalizadeh has been selected for a grant from the Global Oregon International Research Fund. This award will enable Ahmad to travel to archives as part of his research on his project “Revolutionary Repetitions: Mediating Historical Traumas in ...

J. Leigh Myers and Dawn Marlan presented our Spring Nomad Speakers Series talk on April 10. The presentations were related to this year’s Nomad Mentorship Program theme “Outlaw.”

Professor Roy Chan and Elizabeth Howard  spoke on the Nomad theme “Outlaw” Tuesday, February 20.

Tera Reid-Olds is the recipient of the ACLA’s Horst Frenz Prize for her paper “Mobility and Memory for the Storyteller-in-Exile,” which she presented at Utrecht University in 2017.

Assistant Professor Tze-Yin Teo has been awarded an Oregon Humanities Center Research Fellowship (Winter 2019) for her project Unfinished Translations in Twentieth Century Transpacific Literature.

COLT doctoral candidate Michelle Crowson has just been awarded a full scholarship to workshop her translation of The Maiden’s Betrayal at the 2018 Breadloaf Translators Conference.

Doctoral student Anna-Lisa Baumeister has recently published two book chapters: “Woman, Abject, Animal: Refigurations of Melusine in Frischmuth, Jelinek, and EXPORT.” Melusine’s Footprint. Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth. Edited by Misty Urban, Deva F. Kemmis, and Melissa Ridley ...