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The Department of Comparative LiteratureThree graduate students in Comparative Literature have just been awarded prestigious Graduate Student Mentorships for the 2018-2019 school year at UCLA. Clockwise, from top left, they are: Catherine Illingworth, Shane…
Read MoreTwo of our graduate students, Helga Zambrano and Rebecca Lippman, were celebrated last week as members of the STAR award-winning staff for the UCLA’s Scholarship Resource Center. Over…
Read MoreComparative Literature’s Professor Zrinka Stahuljak has just been offered a Visiting Appointment at the Collège de France. Under the heading of “Les fixeurs au Moyen Âge,” the public events have been showcased…
Read MoreCatherine Illingworth, a doctoral student in UCLA’s Comparative Literature Department, recently gave a bold presentation to the Rotary Club of Los Angeles. Herself a scholar of Dante, Ms. Illingworth drew…
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What is your area of research? My research is really at the intersections of black studies and Jewish studies. I’m interested in interrogating the broad, historical relationship between anti-Semitism and…
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Professor and Chair David MacFadyen has been selected as one of six recipients for the 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award for Senate Faculty. The Academic Senate Committee on Teaching further recognized his contributions…
Read More“I Have Been Able to Thrive…” In this video interview, Graduate Student Helga Zambrano, Doctoral Candidate & Teaching Fellow, answers questions such as: What made you apply to UCLA’s graduate school?…
Read More“It’s a Great Place for People Who Want to Think and Be Excited by Amazing Ideas…” In this video interview, Professor Kenneth Reinhard, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director…
Read MoreProfessor Shu-mei Shih will deliver the April keynote at Berlin’s Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften –– itself housed in Humboldt University. Entitled “Sinophone Meets Francophone,” the conference is outlined as follows, while…
Read MoreSome impressive news from our former chair, Professor Efrain Kristal. It spans several continents; we begin in Germany. He recently gave a lecture for the “Of Dawns of Day” Symposium…
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