Author: emorycomplit
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Lecture by Comp Lit Alum Dr. Adam Rosenthal
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. Dr. Rosenthal graduated from Emory with a PhD in Comparative Literature in 2014 and has…
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Congratulations to Summer 2025 PhD Graduate Eric Reynolds!
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 Masks: Reiterating Identification from Classical Aesthetics to Contemporary Media.”
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Professor Irving Goh Publishes Book: Living on After Failure
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 a recuperative philosophy or progress narrative. Rather, he engages with the ontological condition of failure…
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Professor Irving Goh Featured in Bloomberg
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) to Herman Melville, Franz Kafka, and Marx and how they relate to the concept and…
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Professor Sean Meighoo Publishes Book
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. For more information or to purchase the book, click here.
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Congratulations to Fellowship Recipients Dez and Alex!
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.
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Congratulations to Spring 2025 PhD Graduates!
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 Denver. Joe will be a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the CFD (Consortium for Faculty Diversity) in…
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Congratulations to Our 2025 Comp Lit Honors Students!
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 of Poetry and DisplacementAdvised by Dr. Angelika Bammer Yazi ZhengTo Eat or Not to Eat:…
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Dez Miller Publishes Article in Atlanta Studies
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, postcolonialism, kinship, and contemporary and late Victorian literature.
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Isabelle Meyer-Ensass Publishes Article in Journal of Speculative Philosophy
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 century German and French literature.