Department News

January 7, 2025
Sam Hodgkin has been invited by the Nâzım Hikmet Research Center at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul to deliver their annual lecture in honor of the major Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet on January 15 at 9 AM Eastern US time. The talk is entitled “Love, Translated: Sentimental Internationalism and Nâzım’s Late Style.” You can tune in at the zoom link provided at the event website.
December 6, 2024
Tylus, Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Italian and Professor of Comparative Literature, was inducted into one of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious scholarly academies.
October 17, 2024
FAS Assistant Professor Samuel Hodgkin’s new book shows how the classical Persianate canon shaped the poetry of revolution across modern Eurasia.
April 12, 2024
The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced on April 11, 2024, their appointment of 188 Guggenheim Fellowships to a distinguished and diverse group of culture-creators working across 52 disciplines. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants, the Class of 2024 Guggenheim Fellows was tapped on the basis of prior career achievement and exceptional promise. As established in 1925 by founder Senator Simon...
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.
February 19, 2024
Jing Tsu, a cultural historian and literary scholar of modern China, was recently appointed the Jonathan D. Spence Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Literatures, effective immediately. She is a member of Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), in the departments of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Literatures. She also has an appointment at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. Tsu’s research spans literature, intellectual history, linguistics...