News and Events
The department sponsors a weekly luncheon series, usually held Mondays at 12:20 in Kern 102, along with ongoing meetings of interst groups such as the PSU Americanists group, as well as a number of film series and occasional talks.
Recent and upcoming items are listed below; longer-term calendars and more information appear via the links on the left side.
NEWS
CONGRATULATIONS
Martina Kolb for receiving a research grant from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, in support of her project "Expressionist Realms of Transference: Gottfried Benn's Inner Emigration."
Nathan Devir for receiving second place in the Graduate Research Exhibition (Arts and Humanities) for his poster, "The Cultural Variables of Modern Judaic Discourse in the Literary Works of Chaim Potok, A.B. Yehoshua, and Chochana Boukhobza."
Reiko Tachibana for winning the College’s 2008 Outstanding Teaching Award for Tenure Line Faculty.
Alexander Huang has received a Folger Institute grant from the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., for Spring 2008.
EVENTS
Mon., April 28, 12:30 PM, 102 Kern, Comp Lit Luncheon, featuring Michael Taylor (The Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art): "Body Matters: Marcel Duchamp's Etant donné Revisited"
Every Monday, 6-7pm.
Arabic Table: come practice your Arabic in an informal, social setting every Monday 6:00-7:00 p.m. at Irving’s 110 E. College Ave. Contact: Inas Messiha (ium2@psu.edu).
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
Annika Farber, "Usurping 'Chaucers Dreame': Book of the Duchess and the Apocryphal Isle of Ladies." Studies in Philology 105.2 (Spring 2008): 207-25
Deberniere Torrey, translator, Mansaseongchwi (The Attainment of All Things, by Gil Seon-Ju, ed. Jae Hyun Kim. Seoul: KIATS Press, 2008.
Alexander C. Y. Huang, "Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: The Dialectic between the Global and the Local in Lao She's Fiction," MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly 69. 1 (March 2008): 97-118
Wanner, Adrian. Slavic and East European Journal. Rev. of Die Lyrik Bella Achmadulinas by Benjamin Specht. Vol. 51.3 (Fall 07), 621-622.
Eubanks, Charlotte and Melek Ortabasi. “Surveying Comparative Literature from the Pacific Rim.” ADFL Vol. 38, No. 3 and Vol. 39, No. 1, (2007) 34-39.
Purdy, Daniel. “The Building in Bildung: Goethe, Palladio, and the Architectural Media.” GSNA Vol. XV 57-73.
Kanoko, Okamoto. Modanizumu Modernist Fiction from Japan 1913-1938. The Love of Kishimo, Translated by Charlotte Eubanks. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2008.
Eubanks, Charlotte. “Japanese Tales.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales & Fairy Tales. Ed. Donald Hasse. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008.
Sophia A. McClennen and Henry James Morello are pleased to announce their guest edited issue of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture entitled Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror including:
McClennen, Sophia A. and Henry James Morello, “Introduction to Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 9.1 (2007)
McClennen, Sophia A. “The Humanities, Human Rights, and the Comparative Imagination.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 9.1 (2007)
Alexander C. Y. Huang, "King Lear Directed by David Tse." Theatre Journal 58. 3 (2007): 494-495.
Eric Hayot, Haun Saussy, and Steven G. Yao. Eds. Sinographies: Writing China. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Thomas Beebee, “Publicity, Privacy, and the Power of Fiction in the Gunning Letters.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 20.1 (Fall 2007): 61-88
McClennen, Sophia A. “Area Studies Beyond Ontology: Notes on Latin American Studies, American Studies, and Inter-American Studies.” A contracorriente 5.1 (2007): 173-184. http://www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente/
Rosenberg, Aaron. “The Literature of Song.” JALA Vol. 1.2. (2007): 108-128.
Tachibana, Reiko. “Tawada Yoko’s Quest for Exophony: Japan and Germany.” Yoko Tawada: Voices From Everywhere. Ed. Doug Slaymaker. Lanham, NJ: Lexington Books, 2007.
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