The publication record of the faculty, in
terms of books, chapters in books, and articles, is such
that several faculty have come to be regarded both in the
U.S. and abroad as leaders in their respective sub-fields:
Prof. Portuges in Central European Film Studies as well as
Holocaust and post-communist Jewish identities; Professor
Moebius in Word/Image Studies and Children's Literature;
Professor Rothstein in Slavic and Yiddish Folklore; Professor
Tymoczko in James Joyce Studies, Celtic Studies and Translation
Studies; Professor Gentzler in Translation Studies; and Professor
Petroff in medieval feminine hagiography. Professor Lenson
has established himself as a voice in contemporary Cultural
Studies, and Professor Dienes is the world's leading authority
on the Russian emigré author Gazdanov. Lecturer Couch
is a leading figure in the study of the North American comic
strip as well as an authority on Aztec writing and culture,
and Lecturer Hicks has unique credentials as a literary theorist
and as a cultural commentator on the situation in post-war
Bosnia. Professor Nerissa
Balce brings to the
program a strong theoretical background in Empire, Post-Colonial
and Asian American Studies.
For a brief list of recent faculty
publications, see the faculty publications page. Graduate students in Comparative Literature
are strongly encouraged to publish their work while still
working toward
their degree. As a result, many graduate
students publish articles, reviews, translations, poetry, and fiction
in a variety of
national and international academic journals and book
collections, some in languages other than English. In addition,
since
1999 graduate students have published a bi-annual newsletter reflecting their life and work at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst.
Undergraduate students are also actively
involved in publishing as a creative process. The mOthertongue
journal was founded
and is editted entirely by Comparative Literature majors.
Since 2005, the outstanding work of our majors has
been sampled in The Best of Junior
Year Writing publication.
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