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  • 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…

  • 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

  • Congratulations to PhD students Aliza Phillips Sofia Di Gironimo on the publication of their chapter “Capacities to Organize In/Through the Institution” in Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism from Imbricate Press. Purchase or download a PDF of the book here.