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.

Emily Oliveira, who completed her MA at Dartmouth College in 2022, will join the PhD Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies at Columbia University. Emily will head to NYC after receiving several offers from some of the most prestigious universities in the USA.

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.