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Harvard Gazette Article: “Who needs the humanities?” with Professor Moira Weigel.

2024 MLA Prize For Comparative Literary Studies: Professor Annette Damayanti Lienau Receives Honorable Mention

SPRING 2027: COMPLIT 145: Prize-Winning Translations, 2010-2025 – Luke Leafgren

Fifteen Questions: Spencer Lee-Lenfield on Translation, Keats’s Odes, and HUDS Dumplings

New Book by Luke Taylor, PhD ’13

SPRING 2024 COURSE: CompLit 280X: Data and Transmedia Storytelling (Junting Huang)

Congratulations to our 2025-2026 Graduates!

In Memoriam: Stephen Owen, Professor Emeritus and Prolific Scholar

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