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Latest News

February 6, 2026

Congratulations to Gabeba Baderoon

January 16, 2026

Congratulations to Eric Hayot

December 19, 2025

Congratulations to Muyun Zhou

December 19, 2025

Congratulations to Nick Johnson

December 19, 2025

Congratulations to Anna Ziajka Stanton

Upcoming Events

February 16, 2026 - 12:15 pm

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Adrian Wanner (Penn State) presents “Translating Aleksandr Blok’s Russian ‘Noir’”

February 23, 2026 - 12:15 pm

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Linda Istanbulli (Penn State) presents “Afterness and the Ethics of Staying-With in Syrian Literature”

March 2, 2026 - 12:15 pm

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Jooyeon Rhee (Penn State) presents “Deviant Empire: Transimperial Literary Imagination of Crime and Detection in Colonial Korea”

March 16, 2026 - 12:15 pm

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Roundtable on Archive

March 30, 2026 - 12:15 pm

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Roundtable on Feminisms

The department sponsors a weekly luncheon series, usually held Mondays at 12:20 in Kern 102, along with ongoing meetings of interest groups such as the PSU Americanists group, as well as a number of film series and occasional talks.