Two of our Comp Lit majors awarded Fulbright grants for 2023-2024.
May 10, 2023
Tiffany Huynh, English, Comparative Literature (Commonwealth Honors College) will travel to Taiwan and Anna Shahbazyan, English, Comparative Literature (Commonwealth Honors College) will travel to...
Translator Kathryn Lachman in conversation with author Ghislaine Dunant: Charlotte Delbo, Writing Auschwitz and After
April 12, 2023
Translator Kathryn Lachman and Author Ghislaine Dunant adress the legacies of French writer and Auschwitz survivor Charlotte Delbo at NYU's Maison francaise on Thursday April 14, 2023 at 6pm. The...
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....
5 College Event: A Conversation with Carli Muñoz, Author of: A Fool's Journey
Sage Hall, Smith College, 144 Green St, Northampton, MA
8:00 pm to 10:00 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.