comparative literature

Top News
Top news RSS feed
Bryce Starner with kids in the Dominican Republic

Comparative literature senior spends summer with Kansas City Royals

8/14/18

Senior Bryce Starner spent his summer in the Dominican Republic as an intern for the Kansas City Royals. The triple major — comparative literature, Spanish and corporate innovation and entrepreneurship — utilized his language skills to communicate with the players and locals in Santo Domingo.

Vijay Prashad

Center for Global Studies to host renowned author, historian Vijay Prashad

9/8/16

The Penn State Center for Global Studies will be hosting Vijay Prashad from Trinity College with a lecture on western military strength and the influence and implications the west can have on eastern societies, which will take place from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Oct. 5 at the Penn State Lewis Katz Auditorium.

Talk to explore Japanese activist's anti-nuclear speeches

12/1/14

At 12:30 p.m. Dec. 8, Margherita Long, associate professor of Japanese and comparative literature at the University of California, Riverside, will present “On Affect and Articulation: Reading Ōe Kenzaburō’s Anti-Nuclear Speeches,” in Room 102 of the Kern Building.

Comparative Literature talk to explore Chicano novel

11/19/14

At 12:30 p.m. Dec. 1, John Ochoa, associate professor of Spanish at Penn State, will present “The Missing Event and Other Traumas in Tomás Rivera's Chicano Classic And The Earth Did Not Devour Him (or Why So Many Latino Stories Are Bildungsromanen),” in Room 102 of the Kern Building.

'Reading the Black Enlightenment' talk set for Nov. 3

10/27/14

At 12:30 p.m. Nov. 3, Surya Parekh, postdoctoral fellow in the Africana Research Center at Penn State, will present “Affirmations of Blackness: Reading the Black Enlightenment,” in Room 102 of the Kern Building.

2014 applications accepted for scholarships to study Arabic at Penn State

4/4/14

Scholarships are now available for area high school students and Pennsylvania college students who plan to study the Arabic language this summer at The Language Institute of Penn State. In the intensive, four-week STARTALK Arabic Academy program, which meets Monday through Friday from June 12 to July 9, students can complete the equivalent of a full semester's study of Arabic and receive four academic credits for Penn State's Arabic 001 course. Interested students should submit their applications soon in order to be considered for 15 to 20 scholarships.

Untitled

Faculty, alumni commit $364K to honor comparative literature leader

11/6/12

Penn State faculty, friends and corporate supporters have made commitments totaling $334,000 to establish an Early Career Professorship in Comparative Literature in honor of Caroline Eckhardt, the longtime head of the department and professor of comparative literature and English. Faculty colleagues, administrators and alumni also contributed an additional $30,000 to create a fund to support various programs and initiatives for the study of comparative literature, also in honor of Eckhardt. "Over the last quarter century, Carey Eckhardt has been at the center of comparative literature at Penn State," said Susan Welch, dean of the College of the Liberal Arts. "As the only head in the history of the department, she has worked tirelessly to create, lead and inspire the faculty and students. Along the way, she has nurtured important teaching and scholarship, and elevated the humanities at Penn State."

Untitled

$1 million gift will fund graduate students in literatures, languages

10/19/12

A dedicated teacher and scholar, Gerhard Friedrich Strasser, professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at Penn State, has made a $1 million commitment in his estate to support graduate students in comparative literature and Germanic and Slavic languages and literatures. The gift is one of the largest ever made by a current or emeritus faculty member in the College of the Liberal Arts and designates the proceeds from the future sale of real estate for support of graduate education in the departments of Comparative Literatures, and Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Pages