March 2024 News

March 18, 2024
Samuel Hodgkin, a scholar of Turkic, Persian, and Eurasian literatures in our department, was interviewed by Belle Cheves (Bard College) about his new book, Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism, for the podcast of the Ajam Media Collective, an online multimedia magazine for public scholarship on transregional Persianate history and culture.
March 15, 2024
Professor Moira Fradinger has been awarded the prestigious René Wellek Prize for her book, Antigonas: Writing from Latin America. The René Wellek Prizes recognize outstanding books in the discipline of Comparative Literature.