Comparative Literature

Emory Department of Comparative Literature

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  • 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…

  • Congratulations to PhD student Dez Miller on the publication of “Searching for Latent River Cultures in English-language Literature Using Word Embeddings” in Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies. Read the article here. Dez studies digital humanities, ecocriticism, queer theory,…

  • Congratulations to PhD student Wenxin Liang on the publication of her article titled “The Psychic Affective Turn: Body, Affect, and Exile in Manuel Puig’s The Buenos Aires Affair” in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. Read the article here. Wenxin studies…

  • 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…

  • Congratulations to PhD student Sofia Di Gironimo on the publication of “Hardcore and the Politics of Consent: A Woman’s Stupid Smile, or Toward Something Else” in Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Read the article here. Sofia studies queer theory, affect…