Following the death of his father on Feb. 4, the prince was named the fifth Aga Khan. Al-Hussaini graduated from Brown in 1995 with a degree in comparative literature.

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.