PhD. student Dima Nasser has been published in the journal "Middle Eastern Literatures", in a special issue titled "On the Margins of Shi'r: Rethinking Histories of Poetic Modernism in the Twentieth-Century Arab World".

Isabel Farías Velasco is a graduate student in the Comparative Literature program and Professor of “Writing and Resistance in the Indigenous Americas,” which takes a comparative approach to Inca, Nahua, Maya, Narragansett, Wendat, and Wampanoag authors.

Comparative Literature graduate student, Isabel Farías Velasco, is teaching a new course this semester that "takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines historiography, literature, and art, to analyze the mechanisms of Indigenous resistance within the developing structures of colonialism."

On Oct. 9, Prof. Clayton’s COLT 1421V: Modernisms North and South course hosted actor Patrick Fitzgerald.

Prof. Hicks-Bartlett to spend the 2024-2025 academic year in residence at the Huntington Library in Los Angeles, California.

Over the summer, a few first-year Comp Lit PhD students spent their time doing intensive language studies in various programs. These programs, offered both domestically and internationally, are intended to help graduate students strengthen language skills.

Brown department of Modern Culture and Media celebrates the release of cross-appointed Professor Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s newest book, The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World!

On September 20th, Brown celebrated Esther Whitfield, professor of Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies, through a book launch event hosted by the Department of Hispanic Studies.

Professor Elias Muhanna, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and History, has been chosen as the new Director of Center of Middle East Studies (CMES).

Brown’s Comparative Literature Department broadens the scope of the literature studies by including an International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship in Indian Ocean Studies.

CompLit@Brown would like to welcome our new faculty member, Maru Pabon, (back) to Brown!

Brown offers Interdisciplinary Opportunities Fellowships to advanced doctoral students in humanities and social sciences, allowing them to actively participate in projects within the various interdisciplinary centers and institutes at Brown.

The Open Graduate Education Program builds on the traditions of free inquiry and collaborative research at Brown by allowing select doctoral students to pursue a master’s degree in a secondary field. All doctoral students are invited to propose their own combination of studies, free of any disciplinary barrier.

The Colie Prize is awarded annually to recognize the most outstanding honors theses in research and translation in Comparative Literature.

Mariajosé Rodríguez-Pliego ‘23 Ph.D. completed her doctoral degree in Comparative Literature last summer, earning her degree in October of 2023. Her dissertation, Foundational Futures: Nationhood, Migration and Environment in the Literatures of Abiayala was selected for the Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award in the humanities.

This prize is awarded in memory of Professor Albert Spaulding Cook, Ford Foundation Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Classics and English (1925-1998), whose rich and prolific record of scholarly and creative publications conferred on him a worldwide reputation for wide-ranging erudition and aesthetic acumen.

Brown offers a number of awards and fellowships to deserving faculty to recognize their excellence in teaching and research.

Reading Art in Literature: The Marvelous Case of “The Story of the Stone” is a literary study of the art objects lavishly deployed by Cao Xueqin (1710–1765?) in his beloved novel (better known as The Dream of the Red Chamber). These objects are intended as expedients to preserving the vanishing culture of his lifetime, while offering their symbolic and allegorical significance as guides to a path of enlightenment.

The Cogut Collaborative Humanities Fellowship supports graduate students at any stage of their pursuit of the Doctoral Certificate in Collaborative Humanities.

The University Library and the Dean of the Faculty, together with the Digital Publications Faculty Advisory Committee, are pleased to announce the selection of the next scholarly work to be developed by Brown University Digital Publications.

In October of 2023, Comparative Literature graduate student, Ahmad Abu Ahmad, published an article entitled Palestine Writes and the Politics of Language in the Winter 2023 issue of Jerusalem Quarterly, a publication by the Institute for Palestine Studies. Ahmad’s article was a review of the Palestine Writes festival that he attended in September 2023. He describes the festival as “a rich space to vocalize and vitalize the multitude of Palestinian experiences across historical Palestine and throughout the shatat, and to broaden our commitments as Palestinians in literature and beyond.”

Colleagues, former students reflect on legacy of retired comparative literature professor.

After over 50 years of service to Brown University and the Department of Comparative Literature, Professor Arnold Weinstein retired!

Founded in New York City by Singaporean poet Jee Leong Koh, Singapore Unbound builds people-to-people understanding by facilitating cultural exchange, publishing literary works of merit, and presenting insightful events.

Former Comparative Literature PhD student, Tavid Mulder (’19), recently published a book based on the dissertation he wrote at Brown.

Born in East Berlin, Uljana Wolf is an acclaimed German translator, poet, and essayist. Throughout her career, she has published numerous books of original poetry and poetry translations.

The Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University promotes collaborative research and academic innovation in the humanities and across multiple disciplines at the University, while their fellowships program brings together faculty, postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate fellows to share research in a group setting.

Carolyn Vellenga Berman, Associate Professor of Literature at The New School in New York, graduated from Brown in 2000 with a PhD in Comparative Literature.

Comp Lit professor emeritus, Arnold Weinstein, talks to the BAM about the field of comparative literature.

The United States – India Educational Foundation (USIEF) promotes mutual understanding between the nationals of India and the U.S. through the educational exchange of outstanding scholars, professionals and students. Since its inception, USIEF has awarded approximately 20,000 Fulbright, Fulbright-Nehru, and other prestigious grants and scholarships in almost every academic discipline.

The Ruth Simmons Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding honors thesis on questions having to do with women or gender. In the spring, the Pembroke Center invites faculty in all fields to nominate honors theses for the prize. A committee of faculty who teach and write in the area of gender studies will make the selection.

The English Department at Northwestern University is an active community comprised of renowned scholars whose teaching and research involve a variety of literary, cultural, and creative fields.

The Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award is an annual prize awarded by the Graduate School for superior achievements in research by students who are completing their Ph.Ds.

Women faculty discuss ‘earning space’ in higher education institutions, from undergrad to today. According to Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies Dore Levy, harassment against women was common in the classroom. “We just thought that a professor propositioning to us was the price of doing business,” she said.

Clare Kearns joins the Comparative Literature Department as a master’s student as part of Brown Graduate School’s Open Graduate Education program.

The Charles Bernheimer Prize goes to the best dissertation nominated by a department or program. The dissertation must have been defended in the year prior to July 1, 2022 and each institution may nominate one dissertation in the field of comparative literature.

The Cogut Collaborative Humanities Fellowship supports graduate students at any stage of their pursuit of the Doctoral Certificate in Collaborative Humanities and relieves students in the second, third, or fourth year of their doctoral program from all teaching duties in their home department.

The American Comparative Literature Association 2023 Annual Meeting is coming up later this month, and a handful of CompLit@Brown members will be presenting. The ACLA is the foremost scholarly organization in the US for scholars whose work encompasses multiple literatures and cultures as well as the intercultural study of literature.

In December 2022, the Brown University Library announced the selection of the next four scholarly works to be developed by Brown University Digital Publications. Of those four projects, the University Library, along with the Digital Publications Faculty Advisory Committee, selected the work of Comparative Literature Professor Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg’s.

Written by Comp Lit concentrator, Seoeun Choi: During her lecture, best-selling Chinese American fantasy author and translator Rebecca Kuang addressed the themes of mimicry, a practice where colonizers force colonies to take up the colonizer’s language, and the ambivalence of colonial discourse. “There’s something very sad about this mimicry … but it can also be an insurgent act,” she said. “Mimicry radically revalues the priority of race, writing and history. It deauthorizes the colonizer.”

“What I Am Thinking About Now” is an informal workshop/seminar series where faculty and advanced students present recently published works and works in progress for early-stage feedback and development.