Comparative Literature student Anne Gross’ recently published article in The Yale Daily News, “Do You Know How to Read,” examines the art of reading.
Professor Tsu talks about why the west and China misunderstand each other — and how culture can bring them closer together.
Professor Robyn Creswell’s English version of Iman Mersal’s The Threshold has been longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. The Threshold was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October and has received many enthusiastic reviews. In The New York Review of Books, Ange Mlinko writes, “[Mersal’s] voice is so inviting, so familiar, so confiding that it’s even easy to forget that these are translations: Creswell renders her as a perfect contemporary…To...
6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week
By Miguel Salazar, Reporting for the NYT Books desk
“Our picks this week include Bob Woodward’s third book about the Trump administration, a reissue of James Baldwin’s investigation of the Atlanta child murders and much more…”
KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS:
The Language Revolution That Made China Modern, by Jing Tsu.
Tsu’s account details the challenges that linguists, librarians and others faced in their efforts to standardize and adapt Chinese...
Professor Jing Tsu’s new book, “Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern,” (Riverhead, Penguin Random House, 2022), has been named among the “100 Notable Books of 2022,” by The New York Times and among the twelve “Best Nonfiction of 2022” by The Washington Post. Her book will appear in paperback on January 17, 2023.
Professor Tsu’s book has received wide acclaim in the U.S. and U.K by the following publications: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,...
Our esteemed colleague Katerina Clark has won MLA’s Matei Calinescu Prize for her book Eurasia without Borders. This is a great honor both for Katy and for the Comparative Literature department.
Below is the wonderful prize citation from the jury:
“Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919–1943 is a brilliantly researched political history of world literature that reveals how writers reimagined Eurasia in response to Soviet internationalism. Katerina Clark...
In an intensive six-week course of study, faculty members, graduate students and independent scholars from around the world, in the humanities and social sciences, explore recent developments in critical theory. The 2023 Session is scheduled for June 11 - July 20, 2023.
Participants work with the SCT’s core faculty of distinguished scholars and theorists in one of four six-week seminars. Each faculty member offers, in addition, a public lecture and a colloquium (based on an original paper)...
