Comparative Literature

Emory Department of Comparative Literature

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  • Dr. Adam Rosenthal, Associate Professor of French and Global Studies at Texas A&M University, visited Emory earlier in November to give a talk and workshop around his recently published book, Prosthetic Immortalities Biology, Transhumanism, and the Search for Indefinite Life.…

  • Congratulations to Eric Reynolds who graduated with his PhD in Comparative Literature over the summer! Eric holds teaching positions at Kennesaw State University in the Philosophy Department and at Oglethorpe University in the Core Program. His dissertation is titled “Mimetic…

  • Congratulations to Professor Irving Goh on the publication of his book Living on After Failure: Affective Structures of Modern Life. As per Duke University Press, “Goh does not seek a theorization of failure as something to overcome or turn into…

  • Professor Irving Goh’s course titled “Work, Work, Work, Work, Work” was featured in a Bloomberg newsletter in early August. Goh’s course examines cultural icons from SpongeBob SquarePants and Rihanna (the course’s title is drawn from her 2016 hit song, Work)…

  • Congratulations to Professor Sean Meighoo on the publication of his book Postcolonial Derrida. The book addresses issues of colonialism, race, diaspora, migration, gender, and violence, and brings Derrida into conversation with writers and thinkers from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.…

  • Two Comparative Literature PhD students, Dez Miller and Alex Sastre-Rivera, have received fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year. Alex was awarded the Dean’s Teaching Fellowship from Emory. Dez received Emory’s Quantitative Theory and Methods Fellowship.

  • This May, Andrew Kaplan and Joe Larios finished their PhDs in Comparative Literature! A huge congratulations to both. Andrew took a position as Assistant Professor of African American Literature in the Department of English & Literary Arts at University of…

  • Congratulations to our three graduating seniors who completed honors theses in Comparative Literature! All three received highest honors. Marc GoedemansTatyana Voltskaya and the Desertion of EmpireAdvised by Dr. Elena Glazov-Corrigan Chloe Pham Unresolved Origins: Vietnamese American Identity Through the Lens…

  • Congratulations to PhD student Deb Miller on the publication of “Weelaunee and What a Creek Reveals: A Personal Narrative of the Early Stop Cop City Movement” in Atlanta Studies. Read the article here. Dez studies digital humanities, eco-criticism, queer theory,…

  • Congratulations to PhD student Isabelle Meyer-Ensass on the publication of “The Moment of Revolution: Blanchot’s Movement from Negation to Insurrection” in Journal of Speculative Philosophy. Isabelle studies deconstruction, gender ontology, aesthetics, visual and performance studies, psychoanalysis, and 19th and 20th…