Iryna Shuvalova, poet, translator and scholar from Kyiv, Ukraine. She has authored three poetry collections in Ukrainian—Ran, Os and Az—winning some of the country's top awards for poetry. Her fourth book of poems is forthcoming in 2020 with The Old Lion Publishing House in Lviv.

Today the Dartmouth community, the Departments of Comparative Literature, Earth Science and German Studies mark the 20th anniversary of the tragic loss of Susanne and Half Zantop, professors of Dartmouth College, who were murdered in their home on January 27, 2001.

This week Marcus Pyle D'18 received news that Davidson College has awarded him an endowed professor chair. He will be the inaugural Franco Professor of the Humanities, in conjunction with his appointment in the music department.

Caroline King '21 is a panelist and will hold a workshop for the The Polymath Festival February 1-14, 2021.

Elizabeth Cornick, '21 has been voted the Graduate Student Council member of the month. Congratulations Elizabeth!

Marcus Pyle, D'18 has been awarded an NYU Make a Difference award for his ground-breaking program ChamberWorks, which he founded in 2010 to serve public school children in his hometown of Garland, TX. Congratulations Marcus!

Yi Wu is a post-doctoral fellow at Dartmouth College, Society of Fellows for the Comparative Literature Program.

A warm welcome to incoming graduate students Class of 2021!

2018 MA Graduate Yan Liu co-authored a monograph in 2019 on the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne.