News and Events
Comparative Literature Luncheon Series
Mondays at 12:15pm in 102 Kern
Up Next: Resumes in Fall 2013!
Daniel Walden, Professor Emeritus, publishes "Saul Bellow’s Urban Vision: Ambiguities and Anxieties"
Nergis Ertürk receives Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies
Michelle Decker selected as recipient of the Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award for 2012-13
Sara Marzioli wins Alumni Association Dissertation Award for PhD thesis, "Invisible Diasporas: Afro-Modernism in Modern Italy"
Welcome
Welcome to the Department of Comparative Literature at Penn State. We offer graduate degrees (M.A., Ph.D.) in Comparative Literature, an undergraduate major in Comparative Literature, a minor in World Literature, and language curricula. We are about to launch a new dual-title Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, and we have links with English, French, German, Spanish, and other fields at Penn State, as well as with institutions elsewhere.
Our range is global and our graduate programs draw on departmental strengths in medieval and early modern studies, inter-American studies, modernism, Asian studies, African studies, and faculty interests in comparative work on globalization, diaspora, and film and other new media.
Our research and teaching interests are wide-ranging and are defined by the intellectual possibilities of our ideas: comparative literature is above all about understanding how literary and social forms are shaped by the plural languages and cultural contexts through which they come into being.
Caroline D. Eckhardt, Department Head
429 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
phone: 814.863.0589 | fax: 814.863.8882 | email: cmlit@psu.edu
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