June 30, 2008
The Organization of Graduate Students in
Comparative Literature (OGSCL) is welcoming papers for an interdisciplinary
conference held at the University
of Massachusetts Amherst on October 11th and 12th.
The 2008 Crossroads Conference
envisions a student dialogue on the extraordinary outcomes of cultural encounters,
national and ideological borders, disciplines
in interaction, the overlapping of distinct historical periods, the interweaving
of literary genres, the symbiosis between academics and social change, and
the foreplays between rhetorics of war, freedom, memory, and silence.
Graduate students at any stage are welcome
to participate. Your research can be presented in the form
of a paper, a research proposal, thesis and dissertations
chapters, or an outline. In addition, undergraduates from
the five-college consortium are encouraged to participate
as well. Please e-mail your 250 word abstract or
any questions regarding the conference to umasscrossroads@gmail.com Abstracts
must be received by July 30, 2008.
Abstracts must include the participant’s
name, institutional affiliation, email, and phone number.
For more information, see the conference
web site.
Conference organizers may be reached via
email at:
Antonia Carcelén-Estrada: antoniac@acad.umass.edu
Matthew Goodwin: matthewg@complit.umass.edu
Rhona Trauvitch: rtrauvitch@complit.umass.edu
April 30, 2008
May
3-4, 2008—Herter Hall 301
The Amherst-Binghamton Translation Studies Conference aims
to promote a productive exchange among Translation Studies graduate students.
The conference focuses
on interdisciplinary areas and provides a forum for the exchange
of ideas as well as an environment for examining research projects under
the guidance of
more experienced peers, accomplished scholars, and senior
experts.
There will be a special panel on Saturday, May
3, 3:30pm: "Ethics and Translation Discussion
Panel." The panel will feature the following distinguished international
scholars working on different aspects of translation and
ethics: Rosemary Arrojo / Edwin Gentzler / Moira Inghilleri
/ Carol Maier / Francoise Massardier-Kenney / Maria Tymoczko. Both the conference and the discussion panel
will be held in room 301 in Herter Hall on UMass Amherst
Campus.
Both events are FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
For more information, see the conference
web site. Conference organizers may be reached via
email at: amherstbinghamton2008@complit.umass.edu.
March, 2007
Graduate Students to Present at 2007 ACLA Conference
Comparative
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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