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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
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.

Mehtap Özdemir successfully defends her dissertation “The Moral Frame: Adab and Ottoman Literary Modernity” in June 2022
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 her dissertation “Redressing History: Texts and Textiles in Counternarratives of Slavery” in July 2022
Monday, September 5, 2022
Siobhan Mei successfully defended her dissertation “Redressing History: Texts and Textiles in Counternarratives of Slavery” in July 2022 ...

Sandra Russell successfully defends her dissertation “Embodiment and Gendered Subjectivity in Ukrainian Women's Film, Poetry, and Prose during Perestroika (1985-1991)” in August 2022
Monday, September 5, 2022
Sandra Russell successfully defends her dissertation “Embodiment and Gendered Subjectivity in Ukrainian Women's Film, Poetry, and Prose during Perestroika (1985-1991)” in August 2022. ...

Meet the New Graduate Students in Comp Lit (Fall, 2022)
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
The Comp Lit program welcomes four new graduate students who will contribute to the global and intercultural richness of our program. ...

Graduate Student Conference on “The Ethics of Translation and Interpreting" to be held on April 2-3, 2021
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Graduate students in Comparative Literature will host the biannual Translation Studies Conference on April 2-3, 2021: “The Ethics of Translation and Interpreting." All events will be online and...

We stand with the Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander communities
Friday, March 19, 2021
The Program in Comparative Literature strongly condemns the increasing anti-Asian violence, harassment, and rhetoric across the country. We stand with out Asian, Asian American, and Pacific...