Congratulations to Comparative Literature graduate student Noor Habib who together with Zara Khadeeja Majoka has been awarded a 2023 PEN/HEIM Translation Fund Grant for their translation from the Urdu of Oblivion and Eternity Within Me by Miraji
November 16, 2022
From the judges’ citation: Pioneering queer poet Miraji, lauded as one of the three pillars of modern Urdu poetry, in lifestyle and letters resisted both heteronormative and colonial conventions....
Comp Lit alumna Esther Cuesta Santana receives Revoutionary Spirit Award
October 28, 2022
Esther Cuesta Santana (Spanish BA ’02, Comp Lit MA & PhD ’09 & ’15) is the recipient of this year’s Alumni Association’s Revolutionary Spirit Award. She will be visiting campus during...
Mehtap Özdemir successfully defends her dissertation “The Moral Frame: Adab and Ottoman Literary Modernity” in June 2022
September 05, 2022
Mehtap Özdemir successfully defended her dissertation “The Moral Frame: Adab and Ottoman Literary Modernity” in June 2022...
Languages of Comparison/Comparative Accents
Herter 301 and on zoom
4:30 pm
Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His latest book of poems is called Floaters (2021), winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Tabish Khair will lecture on “Literature and Fundamentalism: Initial Thoughts from Ongoing Research” at 7:00 pm, on May 5, in South College E470.
Khair's work is an excellent example of how literature, and fiction in particular, gives us access to lived history and politics in a way that nothing else can. His new novel, The Body by the Shore, is his first venture into sci-fi and eco-literature, and it’s also a real thriller.