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Faculty Spotlight

NEWS FLASH:
BEN. SIFUENTES-JÁUREGUI
, Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature has just received the Warren I. Susman award for Excellence in Teaching in 2013

Congratulations to the following faculty:

Core Faculty
KAREN BISHOP was appointed Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
EDYTA BOJANOWSKA
received the 2013-2014 ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship and will spend the year in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
ANDREW PARKER was appointed Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Rutgers
RICHARD SERRANO
was promoted to Professor I in French
JANET WALKER received the SAS award for Distinction in Contributions to Undergraduate Education, Professor Category

Affiliate Faculty
PAOLA GAMBAROTA received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor of Italian
MARTHA HELFER was promoted to Professor I in German

Graduate Student Awards

Comparative Literature is proud of

TARA COLEMAN, winner of a 2012 Mellon Summer Research Grant;
BEN DE WITTE,
winner of a Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant;
CAROLINE GODART, winner of a 2012-2013 Bevier Fellowship;
MARIA KAGER,
winner of a 2012-2013 Mellon Dissertation Fellowship; also awarded the International James Joyce Foundation Fritz Senn Award to attend the XXIIIrd International James Joyce Symposium at Trininty University, Dublin
ALESSIO LERRO, winner of Bevier Fellowship for his dissertation "From baroque Chiaroscuro to Romantic Sublime: Images, Writing and Subjectivity in Tesauro, Vico, and Novalis"
MATTHEW MANGOLD,
winner of of a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Advanced Russian at the KORA Center in Vladimir, Russia;
ENMANUEL MARTINEZ, winner of the 2012 Ford Foundation Fellowship, Predoctoral Competition;
JENNIFER RATERMAN, winner of 2012-2013 Mellon Dissertation Fellowship;
CAROLYN UREÑA, winner for Best Essay in a graduate seminar in the Department of German Studies;

Congratulations to all!

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Prospective Students

NEWS!  Recruitment Summer Stipends

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, extending its support for Comparative Literature (among 6 units in the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences), has agreed to offer one-time summer grants of $5,000 each to 3 outstanding applicants to the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature. This one-time summer stipend will augment the 4-year fellowship/TA package offered to ALL accepted applicants to Comparative Literature.

For more information, see FINANCIAL SUPPORT.

Presidential Fellows Opportunity

The President of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, invites outstanding candidates to apply to Ph.D. programs for consideration as Presidential Fellows.

•    $35,000 annual fellowship stipends for 2 years
•    Full tuition and medical fee remission
•    Mentorship in applying for prestigious national or international fellowships
•    Additional years of support for candidates sustaining good standing in their program.

Successful candidates are expected to have demonstrated outstanding academic accomplishments and exceptional promise for success in research in their chosen discipline.

Candidates should apply directly to their graduate program of interest via the online application; no separate application is needed. Complete application materials, including 3 letters of reference, should be submitted to the program no later than January 1 for consideration for Fall matriculation.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is committed to academic excellence and to fostering an enriched learning community of students, faculty and staff from a broad spectrum of nations, cultures, and historical perspectives.

It is the policy of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, to make the benefits and services of its educational programs available to students, and to provide equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment, regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, or veteran status.


Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 March 2010 06:20