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Welcome Professor Mehtap Ozdemir
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 and world literature. Professor Ozdemir is particularly engaged in critical translation theory, exploring how translation…
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2024 Lore Metzger Dissertation Prize Winner
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 of Catastrophe in South Asia, draws from postcolonial studies, psychoanalysis, and trauma theory in order…
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Welcome Professor Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús & Professor Irving Goh
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 Abjections” and “World Literature and the Question of Citizenship.” Further information will be shared in…
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† José Quiroga, 1959-2024
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