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.
EVENTS
Monday, Nov. 9, 12:30 PM, Comparative Literature Luncheon featuring "Who Owns African Literature: A Roundtable Discussion" Participants are: Helon Habila (Assistant Professor of English, George Mason University); Binyavanga Wainaina (Director of the Achebe Center, Bard College); Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (Assistant Professor of English, Penn State Altoona); Moderator: Gabeba Baderoon (Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and African and African American Studies, Penn State University)
NEWS
CONGRATULATIONS
Kyle Anderson has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for Research Abroad for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Kyle Anderson, who has been awarded an RGSO Dissertation Support Grant of $2,000, for travel related to his research.
Nergis Ertürk, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, who has been awarded the MLA's William Riley Parker Prize for the best article in PMLA. Her award-winning article, "Modernity and Its Fallen Languages: Tanp nar's Hasret, Benjamin's Melancholy," appeared in PMLA's January 2008 issue.
Tom Beebee, who has been named a Distinguished Professor (his new title is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and German).
Philip Mosley, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State Worthington Scranton, who was recently awarded the Prix de la Traduction Littéraire for his translations of Belgian literature.
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.
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
Putnam, Michael T. ed. 2009. Towards a Derivational Syntax: Survive-minimalism. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
McClennen, Sophia. “Area Studies Beyond Ontology: Notes on Latin American Studies, American Studies, and Inter-American Studies.” Comparaciones En Vertical, Conflictos Mitologicos En Las Literaturas De Las Americas. Supernova, 2009. 178-188.
Azuma, Hiroki. OTAKU Japan’s Database Animals. Trans. Jonathan Abel and Shion Kono. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Kadir, Djelal. “America’s Exceptional Comparabilities: An Instance of World Literature.” Comparative Literature 61.3 (2009): 209-219.
McClennen, Sophia. ”E. Plurisbus Unum/Ex Uno Plura: Legislating and Deregulating American Studies post-9/11.” In Dangerous Professors, Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus, ed. Malini Johar Schueller and Ashley Dawson. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press 2009.
McClennen, Sophia. “Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Intellectual Engagement.” In Works & Days, Academic Freedom andIntellectual Activism in the post-9/11 University, ed. Edward J. Carvalho. Volumes 26 & 27. 2008-09.
Hayot, Eric. “The Asian Turns”, PMLA, 2009. Vol. 124.3.
Eckhardt, Caroline D. “Reading Jaufré, Comedy and Interpretation in a Medieval Cliff-Hanger,” The Comparatist. 2009. Vol. 33.
Shen, Shuang. Cosmopolitan Publics, Anglophone Print Culture in Semi-Colonial Shanghai. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009.
Baderoon, Gabeba. "A Language to Fit Africa": "Africanness" and "Europeanness" in the South African Imagination, in Africa Writing Europe: Opposition, Juxtaposition, Entanglement, ed. by Maria Olaussen and Christina Angelfors, Rodopi, 2009
Huang, Alexander C. Y. Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Walden, Daniel. Introductory Article on "Literature," and biographies on "Ludiwg Lewisohn," and Cynthia Ozick" in Jack Fischel, ed., Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture (Greenwood Press, 2009), 488 pages.
Beebee, Thomas O. “Beyond Lecture and Discussion: The World’s Oldest Approaches to Literature.” Teaching World Literature. Ed. David Damrosch. New York: MLA, 2009. 266-79.
Eckhardt, Caroline D. “World Literature and the Graduate Curriculum .” Teaching World Literature. Ed. David Damrosch. New York: MLA, 2009. 165-78.
Walden, Daniel. ed.,"New Currents in Jewish American Literature." Studies in American Jewish Literature, vol.27 (2008), Introduction and whole issue, pp.1-129.
Hayot, Eric, The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Beebee, Thomas, Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492-2002. New York: Oxford University Press. 2009.
Ivanits, Linda, Dostoevsky and the Russian People, Cambridge: University Press, 2008.
Eburne, Jonathan P., Surrealism and the Art of Crime. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008.
Rosenberg, Aaron L., “Making the Case for Popular Songs in East Africa: Samba Mapangala and Shaaban Robert” Research in African Literatures, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Fall 08).
McClennen, Sophia, “About the Literatures of the Americas.”Rev. of New Work.
by Deborah N. Cohn. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. Vol. 10.3 (2008).
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol10/iss3/
Beebee, Thomas O., “Geographies of Nation and Region in Modern European and American Fiction” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture Vol. 10.3 (2008).
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol10/iss3/7
Farber, Annika "Usurping 'Chaucers Dreame': Book of the Duchess and the Apocryphal Isle of Ladies." Studies in Philology 105.2 (Spring 2008): 207-25
Torrey, Deberniere translator, Mansaseongchwi (The Attainment of All Things, by Gil Seon-Ju, ed. Jae Hyun Kim. Seoul: KIATS Press, 2008.
Huang, Alexander C. Y. "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
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