Our Comparative Literature Program MA Graduates will present their Master's Theses on May 16, 2023 and May 18, 2023, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm, Dartmouth Hall 104, both days. These presentations can be viewed on Zoom. Please contact administrator Liz Cassell for the Zoom link.
Dartmouth Ukrainian Fellow — Hanna Leliv bringing a collection of her work to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, alongside two other Ukrainian scholars and translators: Veronika Yadukha and Lada Kolomiyets.
Hannah Kadin, a current undergraduate student that is writing an honor thesis on speculative fiction about environmental catastrophes, will join the PhD program in Comparative Literature at Northwestern University.
Benjamin Randolph, who wrote an honor thesis in COLT in 2015, will be defending his dissertation (titled "Adorno's Secularization of Hope") next week in the Department of Philosophy at Penn State University.
Emily Oliveira, who completed her MA at Dartmouth College in 2022, will join the PhD Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies at Columbia University. Emily will head to NYC after receiving several offers from some of the most prestigious universities in the USA.
Dennis Washburn, Comparative Literature professor's translation of the 11th-century Japanese novel "The Tale of the Genji" is called "the most readable and the best for
understanding the book at a plot level" by the New York Times.
On March 25th of 2023, Nicola Mazzotti (MA '23) presented his research to the NEMLA conference, organized this year by the University of Buffalo at the Niagara Falls.
Veronika Yadukha (MA '23) has received a grant from Dartmouth's Arts Integration Grant Program for the project, "The transmedial translation of the Novel Amadoka: How Text Becomes Clay and Clay Becomes Music."