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October, 2010

Seeking Applications for Assistant Professors of Comparative Literature and Interpreting

Comparative Literature is currently accepting applications for two Assistant Professor positions. See position postings.

March, 2007

Graduate Students to Present at 2007 ACLA Conference

Comparative Literature Graduate Students presenting at the ACLA Conference 2007Comparative Literature graduate students, (from left in photo: Frans Weiser, Juan G. Ramos, María Antonia Carcelén Estrada, Cris Mazzei, BK Tuon, Nicole Calandra, and Rhona Trauvitch; not pictured Nikolina Dobreva and estheR Cuesta) will present their work at the annual American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference.

The 2007ACLA conference—Trans, Pan, Inter: Cultures in Contact will be held April 19-22 in Puebla, Mexico. For more information about these students and their interests, see the Current Graduate Students and Incoming Graduate Student pages.


September 03, 2006

Comparative Literature Welcoming Party!

We invite graduate students and faculty to a reception for all new incoming Comparative Literature graduate students. Refreshments will be served.

September 12, 2006
3:00 – 5:00
4th floor Herter lobby
(Opposite elevator area)


April 21, 2006

Achievements of Comparative Literature Graduate Students and Recent Graduates

estheR Cuesta has been awarded a Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for 2006 to attend the Arizona State University's Center for Latin American Studies Ecuador Field School sessions on the Quichua language in Ecuador. The fellowship will enable her to undertake research ad document testimonies of indigenous women from the Andean and Amazon regions.

Alessandra DiMaio has been awarded a two-year fellowship by the UCLA Mellon Postdoctoral Program in the Humanities for her project, "The Narration of Immigration in Contemporary Italy: Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Legal and Literary Texts." She will defend her dissertation in May.

Lan Dong (PhD '06) has accepted a tenure-system position as assistant professor in the English Program at the University of Illinois at Springfield, beginning fall 2006. In May, she will defend her dissertation, "Cross-Cultural Palimpsests of Mulan: the Woman Warrior from Pre-Modern Chinese to Contemporary Asian American Representations."

Dale Hudson (PhD '04) will be joining the faculty in English to teach Film Studies at Amherst College for 2006-07. After defending his dissertation, "Border Crossings and Multicultural Whiteness," he was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College.

Ada McKenzie is one of 40 women graduate students in the United States to receive an American Association of University Women Fellowship for 2006-07 to support fulltime research on her dissertation, "Creolization, Possession, and Performance in Caribbean Cultural Discourses." The fellowship will enable her to return to Cuba to continue the research on visual culture she began last year.

Meriem Pages (PhD '06) has accepted a tenure-system position as assistant professor of English at Keene State College. Her dissertation, "The Image of the Assassins in Medieval European Texts," will be defended in May.

Shawn Smolen-Morton (PhD '04) has been appointed assistant professor of English at Francis Marion University, South Carolina. "Acting the Child: Separating the Infantile from the Masculine in Film and Literature, 1835-1985" is the title of his dissertation.

 

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