Congratulations to Dr. Yasemin Yildiz, the recipient of the 2016 DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies for her outstanding academic work in the Humanities. Dr. Yildiz is…
Nouri Gana, associate professor of Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, has been named one of 13 recipients of the 2017 New Directions fellowship from the Andrew…
Comparative Literature and English professor, Kenneth Reinhard, was featured in the May 10, 2016 edition of the Daily Bruin. The article (available in full on the Daily Bruin website) recounts…
UCLA Newsroom recently published an article on the General Education Cluster course entitled “Mind Over Matter”. The Department’s own Professor Efrain Kristal and Romy Sutherland each contributed their expertise to broaden students’…
Sanna Alas (B.A.S., Human Biology & Society, Comparative Literature ’15) has been selected as one of 35 US scholars to receive the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Sanna will begin her…
Comparative Literature doctoral student and current Teaching Fellow, Malik Chaudhary, was featured in the January 19, 2016 edition of the Daily Bruin. The article (available in full on the Daily Bruin…
Professor Efrain Kristal presented the 118th Faculty Research Lecture on May 13, 2015. He shared his enduring fascination with Jorge Luis Borges and explored the sphere of the revered Argentinian’s…