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.

Please join us in congratulating Eman Morsi on being awarded the Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress for 2023-4!

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."

On May 30th Comparative Literature held and end of year awards lunch for the MA Graduates and graduating majors and minors. Congratulations to all!

Irene Kacandes is leading a new lecture series on hot-button issues.

Twenty-one professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been promoted and 12 were awarded tenure.

Professor Michelle Warren shares insights from her book 'Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet' in a podcast and blog, Michelle R. Warren is Professor of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. Congratulations!

Tom Abi-Samra's translation was published in the journal Meridians. This article is in two parts. The first part provides an overview of the life of the Egyptian feminist Doria Shafik and the second part consists of translations from the Arabic of four editorials that Shafik wrote in her feminist magazine Bint al-Nīl.