The verbal tide has swallowed many poignant reminders that language extends far beyond semantics. In recent years, however, the handshake has shifted from a practice symbolizing equality to one designating the very opposite wrote Yuliya Komska in ArtForum.

Congratulations Lawrence Kritzman, Eleven members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Geisel School of Medicine, and Thayer School of Engineering began the summer term with new appointments to endowed professorships.

Iryna Shuvalova COLT MA Graduate D'14 published a new book. Pray to the Empty Wells is a prayer that overflows. Shuvalova's lyric poetry is thick with beauty, memory and sorrow; with folklore, story and song. Congratulations!

We seek innovative and inquisitive scholars who share our passion for languages and cultures,western and non-western literatures, and for critically thinking about different types of texts and aesthetic expressions. Application deadline is January 15th.

Iryna Shuvalova, COLT MA Graduate D'14 was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1986. She published three collections of poems in Ukrainian....

Antonio Gomez receives New Directions in Humanities Scholarship and Arts Practice grant to study how Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci’s cultural and political thought was received in Spain....

In English we trust: Can we be global citizens without knowing foreign languages? Will speaking foreign languages finally become an asset in the U.S.?

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 20 th century Mexican, Central American, and Caribbean literature; women of color feminism; and queer of color critique.

Yun Ni is currently a rising sixth-year Ph.D. student of Comparative Literature at Harvard. And would argue that the Comp Lit MA program at...