Lucas Joshi, who has deferred matriculation in the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature to the fall of 2023, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to support a year of research in Goa.

For the first time since Spring of 2019, the Comparative Literature Department will hold its Commencement Diploma Ceremony in-person for the class of 2022.

Comp Lit senior concentrators may choose to do an honors thesis. Most students require two semesters to plan and complete an Honors Thesis, which is usually between 50 and 100 pages long.

Comparative Literature PhD student, Baoli Yang, will deliver a presentation at the Brown Grad School's "Research Matters" event. Baoli's research primarily focuses on medieval Sinoscript literature and its modern repercussions, manuscript culture, Chinese poetics, empire studies, and Silk Road studies.