Category: Awards
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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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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…