Undergraduate News

At our end-of-year celebration on May 11, 2023, undergraduate director Prof. Karen Bishop recognized all of our graduating majors and minors along with honors thesis writers Ari Colaprete (highest honors), Sarah Fradkin, and Eliza Rosenthale (highest honors).

Comp Lit's undergraduate awards were announced and presented as well. This year's Best Scholarly Paper award went to Eliza Rosenthale for "The Unknown Soldiers: Domesticity as Resistance." Daria Turner's "Many Tragic Forms: Ideas and Actions in Sophocles and Fugard" and Kamil Szczech's "On the Signifier, the Signified, and the Problem of Naming" won Honorable Mention. The award for Best Creative Work in Comp Lit went to Charles Stephens for "Elsewhere." Congratulations one and all!

Undergraduate director Prof. Karen Bishop with graduating major Norhan Osman.

Congratulations to our undergrad honor student!

Christina Chen: "'The Happy Fate of Genji's Darling': Fiction and Power in the Genji and Murasaki Relationship" (dir. J. Walker)

The editors of PROTEUS: The Rutgers Undergraduate Journal of Comparative Literature are pleased to announce their 2019-2020 edition!

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Jamie Haleva: “Social Status in Dickens, Stendhal, and Mayhew” (dir. A. Parker)

Thea Popko: “Perverse Texts: Visuality and Subjectivity in Henry James ’The Turn of the Screw and Witold Gombrowicz’ Pornografia” (dir. N. Behrmann)

Matt Reper: “There’s No More: The Comedy of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame” (dir. N. Rennie)

Doron Darnov, “’The Peak of Our Dreams’: A Critical Perspective on Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror” (dir. A. Parker)

Jennifer Noji, "Documenting Trauma through Fiction: A Critical Rediscovery of the Japanese American Incarceration" (dir. K. Bishop)

Rucha Phadtare, “Androgynous Empire: The Construction of a New Russian Imperial Identity in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace” (dir. E. Bojanowska)

Michael Satterfield, “The Shadows of Men: An Exploration of Race and Masculinity in Animal Factory and Fish” (dir. B. Sifuentes-Jáuregui)

Jun Ho (Peter) Yoon, “An Essay on Kenzoburo Oe's Somersault” (dir. E. Khayyat)