BA Graduates :
Larissa Barth
Tutor: Anna Hennigan
Mentor: John Hamilton
Sophie Cooper, Joint with NELC II
Tutor: Ivy Deng
Mentor: Nader Uthman
Emma Fang
Tutor: Rita Goldberg
Mentor: David Stern
Ričards Umbraško, Joint with Slavic I
Tutor: Sydney Stotter
Mentor: Jonathan Bolton
PhD Graduates:
Dr. Jacob Meister
Dr. Michael O’Krent
Dr. Georgia Soares
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Dr. Jacob Meister 
who defended his dissertation titled
“Sanitizing Narratives: Urban Health in Nineteenth-Century European Fiction”
on Thursday, September 5, 2024
Faculty advisors: Professors Janet Beizer, Elaine Scarry, and William Mills Todd III
Dr. Michael O’Krent
who defended his dissertation titled
“The Parascientific Method: Thresholds of History in and beyond Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction”
on Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Faculty advisors: Professors David Wang, Stephanie Burt, Mingwei Song (Wellesley College), and Karen Thornber
Dr. Georgia Soares
who defended her dissertation titled
“Critical Educational Encounters: (Re)Writing Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil and the U.S.” Thursday, May 8th 2025.
Faculty advisors: Professors Bruno Carvalho (Chair), Henry Gates, Alice Jardine, & Karen Thornber,
Congratulations to Dr. Meister, Dr. O’Krent, and Dr. Soares!
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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