Please join us in congratulating Katerina Clark on being appointed as the B.E. Bensinger Professor of Comparative Literature and of Slavic Languages and Literatures. You can read about her prestigious appointment here:
https://news.yale.edu/2019/05/28/katerina-clark-designated-bensinger-professor
2019 MacArthur Fellow
Emily Wilson, ‘01 PhD
Classicist and Translator | Class of 2019
Bringing classical literature to new audiences in works that convey ancient texts’ relevance to our time and highlight the assumptions about social relations that underlie translation decisions.
Title
Classicist and Translator
Affiliation
Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
We are pleased to welcome Samuel Hodgkin to our department! We are all very excited that Professor Hodgkin is joining our faculty. Today you can read about the new, timely, and important course he is teaching in the spring on medieval world literature:
https://news.yale.edu/2019/08/29/medieval-literature-without-borders-new-classes-rethink-middle-ages
We are pleased to announce Jing Tsu’s appointment as the John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature at Yale. You can read about Jing’s distinguished career and exciting work by clicking here.
Congratulations!
Juliet Lapidos, Literature Major 2005 had a Gates Cambridge fellowship has published an academic novel.
Talent
by Juliet Lapidos
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 — LitHub, The Millions, Thrillist, Entertainment Weekly
In this “deliciously funny, sharp, and sincere (Helen Oyeyemi)” debut, a young graduate student writing about–and desperately searching for–inspiration stumbles upon it in the unlikeliest of places.
Anna Brisker is a twenty-nine-year-old graduate student in...
Everything is Yours, Everything is Not Yours
April 12, 2016 by Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil
Clemantine Wamariya, who at age six fled the Rwandan genocide with her sister, spent seven years wandering central Africa as a refugee, eventually coming to the United States and succeeding by every conventional marker. Judges called the piece “clear-eyed,” “tremendously insightful,” and “gracefully and honestly told.” Originally published by Matter in June, 2015.
True to Life: An Interview with Martin Hägglund
Jacobin’s Meagan Day spoke to Hägglund about Karl Marx, C. S. Lewis, St Augustine, Martin Luther King Jr, and how democratic socialism — not liberal capitalism — can fulfill our shared commitment to the values of freedom and democracy.
See full interview here.
