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Ke "Coco" Xu Defends Dissertation on 1980s Chinese Radio Dramas

Congratulations to Coco on successfully defending her doctoral dissertation "Post-Socialist Modernization in 1980s Chinese Radio Dramas"! And also for her selection as a 2023-24 Barthelomae Fellow in the Rutgers Writing Program. That's two kinds of excellent news!

Inaugural Gnarra Family Fellows in Translation Announced

Comparative Literature is pleased to announce that our doctoral candidates Penny Yeung and Sneha Khaund are the inaugural recipients of the Gnarra Family Fellowship in Translation. The Gnarra Family Fellowship, established by alumna Dr. Irene E. Gnarra, is awarded to one or more graduate students pursuing a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Rutgers and “preparing a dissertation that involves translating a literary work [or literary materials] into English.” Each year, a faculty committee will se...

Congratulations to Joseph Sepulveda Ortiz, Ph.D.

The Comparative Literature Program celebrates Joseph on the defense of his doctoral dissertation "A Related Island: Afro-Queerness in Haitian and Dominican Literature," and on his new tenure-track position at St. Olaf's College in Northfield, Minnesota. Best wishes to you, Joseph! Joseph with his director Prof. Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui at SGS Commencement.

Comp Lit Students Win Dissertation Awards!

Congratulations to Paulina Barrios, selected as a Dissertation Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis; to Thato Magano, who received a University and Bevier Dissertation Fellowship; and to Yuanqiu Jiang, the winner of a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange--Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. They will hold these awards during the 2022-23 academic year.

Congratulations to Gabriel Bámgbóṣé, Ph.D.

Comp Lit celebrates Gabriel Bámgbóṣé on the successful defense of his dissertation "In My Mother's House: African Women Poets and the Radical Translation of Negritude," and on beginning a new tenure-track position in African literature at UC-San Diego. Good luck, Gabriel! Gabriel being "hooded" at SGS Commencement.

Comp Lit Celebrates Our Recent PhDs!

Congratulations to all! Virginia L. Conn Dissertation: The Body Politic: Socialist Science Fiction and the Embodied State Committee: Anindita Banerjee (Cornell), *Andrew Parker, Song Weijie, Wang Xiaojue Lidia Levkovitch Dissertation: Blurred Boundaries: Negotiating Normativity in Late Soviet and Early Post-Soviet Narratives about Alcohol Committee: Edyta Bojanowska (Yale), Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia), Andrew Parker, *Emily Van Buskirk Qingfeng Nie Dissertation: Ordering Urban Space in Luoyang, 6...

Teaching Practices in the Era of BLM Symposium

The Program in Comparative Literature and the Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies sponsored a student-led event on February 5th, 2021, under the title “Teaching Practices in the Era of BLM.” The event, organized by María Elizabeth Rodríguez Beltrán, Paulina Barrios, Mònica Tomás, Milan Reynolds, and Amanda González Izquierdo was attended by more than 100 people. We were honored to have Dr. Carolyn Ureña, a Comparative Literature alumnus and now Assistant Dean for Advising a...

Recent Graduates Begin New Teaching Positions

Our 2020-2021 PhDs will soon be teaching on three continents! Congratulations to ... Gabriele Lazzari Lecturer in Contemporary Literature University of Surrey (UK) Qingfeng Nie Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Literature New Era University College University (Malaysia) Jeong Eun "Annabel" We Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures Northwestern University

Congratulations to Our Prize-Winning Students!

Gabriel Bámgbóṣé has won an ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Fellowship for 2021-2022; Paulina Barrios will hold a Rutgers Graduate Public Humanities Internship for Summer 2021; Rudrani Gangopadhyay received a Mellon Dissertation Fellowship for 2021-2022; Thato Magano has begun a dual-doctorate ("cotutelle") program at Leiden University; Bernie Mendoza will be a Postdoctoral Research Associate for 2021-2022 at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University; Mònica Tomàs was se...

Critical Theory in the Global South Initiative Concludes Spring 2022

The Rutgers Program in Comparative Literature has been collaborating with the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM). This five-year partnership, which began in 2018-19 with funding provided by the Mellon Foundation’s Critical Theory in the Global South initiative, supported reciprocal graduate workshops in Mexico City and New Brunswick, as well as the creation of a new interdisciplinary seminar, to be taught concurrently in Spring 2022, on “The University and Its Publics: North, South,...

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