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  • Congratulations to Comp Lit PhD student Wenxin Liang on the publication of her article “Wong Kar-Wai’s Argentine Affair: Happy Together as a Translingual and Multimodal Adaptation” in Adaptation! Read the article here. Wenxin is interested in transpacific (Asia-Latin America) studies,…

  • Congratulations to Comp Lit PhD Student Jacqueline Retails on the publication of her article “The Blurred Binary Between Humanity and Animality in In the Castle of My Skin” in the Journal of West Indian Literature! Read the article or purchase…

  • The Department of Comparative Literature is pleased to introduce our exciting new faculty addition this Fall 2024: Professor Mehtap Ozdemir. With a focus on Middle Eastern cultural and literary modernities, her research encompasses a range of interdisciplinary interests, including comparative poetics…

  • The Department of Comparative Literature congratulates Ishanika Sharma, this year’s recipient of the Lore Metzger Dissertation Prize.  Ishanika will be graduating in Spring 2024 with a PhD in English and a Certificate in Comparative Literature.  Her PhD dissertation, Postcolonial Eventality: Fictions…

  • The Department of Comparative Literature is pleased to introduce two distinguished additions to our faculty starting Fall 2024: Professor Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús and Professor Irving Goh. Their scholarly contributions will encompass a diverse spectrum of expertise, spanning courses such as “Other Medusas: Caribbean…

  • The Department of Comparative Literature at Emory University held a memorial service honoring José Quiroga’s life on Monday, April 15, 2024 in the Cannon Chapel at Emory University. Topic: In Honor of José Quiroga WATCH JOSE QUIROGA IN MEMORIAM SERVICE

  • The Department of Comparative Literature condemns the violent use of force that was authorized by the Emory University administration to disperse the student-led demonstrations that were held on campus April 25th, 2024. We demand that all students and faculty who…