It is a pleasure to inform you that Professor David Damrosch has just been elected to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

More details can be found on their website.

We are pleased to share that Professor Martin Puchner was awarded a Fellowship in Literary Criticism by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation on April 7, 2017.

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Please join us in congratulating all the recipients of a Fall 2016 Teaching Award from the Bok Center in the Department of Comparative Literature!

Lecturer Certificate of Excellence
Cécile Guédon - COMPLIT 119: Poetry in Flux– Dance Afoot

Graduate Students TFs Certificates of Distinction
Daniel Behar - ENG 190WE: David Foster Wallace
Marina Connelly - CULTBLF 53: Sacred and Secular Poetry
Yun Ni - CULTBLF 45: Read more about Congratulations to all the Comp Lit recipients of a Fall 2016 Teaching Award from the BOK Center

Soviet Daughter provides a window into the life of a rebellious, independent woman coming of age in the USSR, and the impact of her story and her spirit on her American great-granddaughter, two extraordinary women swept up in the history of their tumultuous times. 

Soviet Daughter is the story of Julia Alekseyeva's great-grandmother Lola. Born in 1910 to a poor, Jewish family outside of Read more about 'Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution': Comp Lit Grad Student Julia Alekseyeva publishes autobiographical graphic novel.