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Two of our Comp Lit majors awarded Fulbright grants for 2023-2024.
Tiffany Huynh, English, Comparative Literature (Commonwealth Honors College) will travel to Taiwan and Anna Shahbazyan, English, Comparative Literature (Commonwealth Honors College) will travel to Moldova. Congratulations to you both!

COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND FINE ARTS AWARDED $300,000 TO CREATE A CORNERSTONE INITIATIVE: LEARNING FOR LIVING PROGRAM AT UMASS AMHERST
Friday, September 29, 2023
Professor Moira Inghilleri, Associate Professor Patrick Mensah and Senior Lecturer Barry Spence from the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures have been awarded a $300,000 from the...

Establishment of David Lenson Fellowship for Comparative Literature Students
Friday, August 11, 2023
The Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is proud to announce a new fellowship to support undergraduate and graduate student for language study abroad. In...

Jim Hicks in conversation with recent PhD, Krzysztof Rowiński
Friday, August 11, 2023
Recorded June 27, 2023....

Translator Kathryn Lachman in conversation with author Ghislaine Dunant: Charlotte Delbo, Writing Auschwitz and After
Wednesday, 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...

Mehtap Özdemir successfully defends dissertation
Monday, September 5, 2022
Mehtap Özdemir successfully defended her dissertation “The Moral Frame: Adab and Ottoman Literary Modernity” in June 2022...

Siobhan Mei successfully defends dissertation
Monday, September 5, 2022
Siobhan Mei successfully defended her dissertation “Redressing History: Texts and Textiles in Counternarratives of Slavery” in July 2022 ...