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.
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After graduating from Dartmouth, I went to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and completed my doctoral degree in Comparative Literature. I am currently the Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Professor at the University of Illinois Springfield.
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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.
[more]Professor Bruno Carvalho, Harvard University works on cities as lived and imagined spaces. He studies relationships between cultural practices and urbanization, specializing on Brazil from the eighteenth century onward. Carvalho's interdisciplinary approaches bridge history, literary analysis, and urban studies. At Harvard, Carvalho is Co-Director of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, a member of the Faculty Advisory Committees on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, and in the Brazil Studies Program, as well as a Faculty Affiliate of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, the Center for the Environment, the Graduate School of Design, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He recently published The Amazon Will Soon Burn Again, New York Times, May 27, 2020
[more]I graduated from Dartmouth in 1992 with a degree in Comp Lit. From there I went on to earn a PhD from UPenn, finishing in 2003, and I'm now a recently tenured Associate Professor of English at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA. I thought that the Comp Lit program might be interested to know that my book on 18th-century British drama, A Race of Female Patriots: Women and Public Spirit on the British Stage, 1688-1745 has just been published by Bucknell University Press. And my interest in literary scholarship all began with a course with Peter Bien on Odysseus/Ulysses...
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