Nicole Eitzen Delgado is a third year English Ph.D. student and recitation instructor at New York University. Her research interests include race and gender in modern American literature; subalternity and revolutionary thought in 20th century Mexican, Central American, and Caribbean literature; women of color feminism; and queer of color critique.
While at Dartmouth, Eitzen Delgado assistant taught for introductory courses in the Comparative Literature and...
[more]Francisco Nahoe
In the Fall of 2004, having just completed the Dartmouth MA in Comparative Literature, I enrolled in the ThM program in Biblical Studies at Harvard Divinity School. At the time, I lived in Andover where I was Roman Catholic chaplain at Phillips Academy and an instructor in English until 2006 after which I moved to Our Lady of Czestochowa Friary in South Boston where I stayed until I finished the program at Harvard in 2007.
Thereafter, I return...
[more]Larissa Hebert
I currently teach Advanced Placement Language and Composition and American Literature at Bellows Free Academy in St. Albans, Vermont. I am going into my 15th year of teaching. Following my completion of my MA in Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, I was hired at Milton Junior/Senior High School in Milton, Vermont to teach exploratory languages to 8th graders. My Comparative Literature degree provided me with the experiential background in...
[more]"Multilingualism" and "monolingualism" are notions that appear clear-cut, uncontested and normative. But are they? In this course, we will examine the rise (and fall) of multilingualism and its others - especially monolingualism-to sharpen our understand of these terms' use and implications. Where and when did they emerge historically? Whom do they benefit or harm socially? What do they mean theoretically? What challenges to they pose to writing, translation? The global traffic of texts,...
[more]US history is a Pandora's box. There has never been a better moment to open it
Past controversy has often been diluted. After Trump’s victory, there’s a real opportunity to discuss what counts as history and the role it plays in democracy
In divided cold war-era Germany, the last thing that an eminent historian of fascism would have hoped to do was scandalize. But scandalize Ernst Nolte did. The title of his essay The Past that Will Not Pass, published in the prominent...
[more]Welcome to Comparative Literature (COLT)!
Comparative Literature is a challenging interdisciplinary program that gathers the best faculty from across campus in promoting the study of literatures in different languages as well as the relationship between literature and other spheres of human activity. It also embraces broader inquiry into the relationship between literature and other disciplines and practices, such as the visual and performing arts, philosophy, history...
[more]The United Nations estimates that there are about 232 million international migrants worldwide. Many have been forced to leave their homes because of poverty, global conflicts, and natural disasters. To help students understand the causes and effects of migration, Silvia Spitta, the Robert E. Maxwell Professor of Arts and Sciences has teamed up with...
[more]Congratulations on a job well done to all the COLT MA Graduate students!
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Thornton Hall, room 105
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Graduate Director: Gerd Gemünden
Chair: David LaGuardia
Panel 1
Moderator: Sughey Ramirez
Fifteen students and alumni have been offered Fulbright scholarships this year—the largest class of Dartmouth Fulbrights since 2014, according to Jessica Smolin, assistant dean for scholarship advising.
“I congratulate all of this year’s Fulbright recipients,” says Smolin. “This is an exciting time for the Fulbright at Dartmouth—we have more resources than ever to support students through the application process, including a new Fulbright adviser, Holly Taylor. I encourage all students...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 4:30 pm, Haldeman 41
Reception to follow
This event is free and open to the public!
Sponsored by the Comparative Literature Program
Forms of the Informal: Modernist Poetry, Urbanism, and Street Life in 1920s Brazil
Bruno Carvalho, Dartmouth College, Comparative Literature Program '04 and Princeton University
The protagonists will be the writer Manuel Bandeira, the French planner Alfred Agache, and Le Corbusier.
BIO...
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