Comparative Literature News

Department News

  • COLI Lecturer Bailey Sincox wrote a book chapter that applies Walter Benjamin's account of Trauerspiel to a seventeenth-century English drama that draws (like its German contemporaries) upon late antique history and Latin literature; the chapter is forthcoming in the collection Imagining Antiquity in Shakespeare's England, slated to come out in the summer of 2026.
  • Our graduate student Daniel Monzingo was awarded a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) for studying Portuguese in the summer of 2026. Way to go!
  • COLI professor Luiza Moreira co-authored an article on Meireles and Mistral, which is out now. Here's the citation: Luiza F. Moreira and Elizabeth Horan. "The Friendship between Cecília Meireles and Gabriela Mistral: Education, Journalism, and Folklore." Árboles y rizomas. Vol. VII, No. 2 (Julio-Diciembre 2025) 147-163.
  • COLI grad student Samantha Sharp published a chapter entitled “Liquid Photogénie: Lotic Imaginings in La glace à trois faces” in a book called Cinematic Ecosystems: Screen Encounters with More-than-Humans in the Era of Environmental Crisis, Vernon Press, 2026. Yes!
  • Congratulations to our graduate student Tim Schmidt for the publication of “Jenseits von Lesen und Schreiben: Zur Paläographie, Digitalisierung
    und dem Verschwinden philologischer Praxis.” Studia Germanica
    Gedanensia, vol. 53, Künstliche Intelligenz in der philologischen
    Praxis, 2026.
  • Many congratulations to former COLI BA and MA student Thomas Mackin, who received a fellowship for the PhD program in Comparative Literature at Cornell University, to start in the Fall of 2026!
  • Congratulations to Associate Professor Jeroen Gerrits on the publication of an edited volume on Cavell's Ontology of Film. You can read an interview about it here.
  • Glowing: The department is proud to announce that Nihan Soyoz (PhD 2025) has been appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Cappadocia University, Turkey.
  • We're proud to announce that Comparative Literature recently published an article by our alumna Olga Blomgren. Check it out: "Cannibalizing Language,Translation, and Opacity in
    Writings by Rosario Ferré: The Multilingual Author and English." Comparative Literature, 77:3 (2025) 334-355.
  • Min-Chi Chen (PhD 2023) has been appointed as tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at the National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan! Many Congratulations Min-Chi!
  • We are proud to announce that Corinne Black (PhD F23) will start as fulltime lecturer in the University Writing Program at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) in the Fall of 2025.
  • Congratulations to Mamen Rodriguez Galindo, who was awarded a highly competitive doctoral fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH). With the support of the IASH fellowship she will spend the spring 2026 semester developing and workshopping a dissertation chapter with the title “Samudaripen Literature: Mediations of Postmemory in Literary Representations of the Romani Genocide." 
  • Announcing Chia-Hsu Jessica Chang as Honorable Mention of the Paula J. Giddings Best Article Award for the article, "De-naming: Unraveling the Sex-Skin and Gender-Mask Technologies in the Colonial Naming Structure.” Congratulations!
  • In recent years, COLI faculty and grads have spearheaded and hosted two excellent podcasts: Broadcasting World Literature and Smaller Narratives for a Larger World. They are now among the podcasts celebrated in the Binghamton Grown Podcasts blog post. Enjoy listening!
  • Thank you Dr. Gulnoz Khallieva and Feruzabonu Mannonova from the Uzbekistan University of World Languages for the exciting exchange of ideas about comparative and world literatures. Check out their website here, and a picture with them (center front) and part of the incoming cohort of grad students below.uzbek
  • Literature/Film Quarterly published "Equiano’s Trace: Adapting Slave Narrative to Insta-film," co-authored by PhD candidates Zachary Wagner (COLI) and Kaushik Tekur (ENGL). Kudos!
  • Congratulations to our PhD student Kiel Gregory on the publication of "Remediation and Epistemological Revelation in the Archimedes Palimpsest and Twenty-First-Century Erasure Poetry” in CEA Critic.
  • We our proud to annouce that our PhD student María Arroyo received an honorary doctorate from Smith College. Congratulations!
  • In the Fall 2024, PhD candidate Gülden Olgun will start her new position as Lecturer of German in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Florida, Gainsville. Many congratulations Gülden!
  • We are delighted that Kodai Abe (Ph.D. Spring 2023) has been appointed Assistant professor in Department of Modern Cultural Studies at University of Tsukuba (Japan). Congratulations!
  • Congratulations to Mushtaq Bilal on his appointment as a postdoctoral researcher at the Hans Christian Andersen Center, University of Southern Denmark. 
  • We are proud to announce that our Ph.D. candidate Chia-Hsu (Jessica) Chang's article,  "Resistant Un/translatability as a Gate-opener and a Gate-keeper: Contributions to the Development of a Decolonial Methodology for the Politics of Women of Color" has won the 2023 National Women's Studies Association's Women of Color Caucus - Frontiers Student Essay Award. Many congratulations Jessica!
  • Congratulations to Jason Parry and his co-translator Cintia Vezzani, on receiving an English Pen Translation award for their translation of The Bankruptcy by Julia Lopes de Almeida (Brazil, 1862-1934).
  • Congratulations to Rania Said on her new position as Assistant professor of Arabic at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at UMass Boston. 
  • Congratulations to Daimys Garcia (PhD 2023) on her appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of English at The College of Wooster.
  • Congratulations to Olga Blomgren (PhD 2020) on her appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University.
  • We are proud of our alumnus David M. Spitzer's impressive new publications:
    --a translation of the Song of Songs in Fates (Etruscan 2023)
    --Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy in Honor of Professor Anthony Preus (Routledge 2023)
    --Transfiction and Bordering Approaches to Theorizing Translation: Essays in Dialogue with the Work of Rosemary Arrojo (Routledge 2023; ed with Paulo Oliveira)
  • Double congratulations to Anastasiya Lyubas (PhD 2018), for the publication of Blooming Spaces: The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel (Academic Studies Press, 2021) and for having the book receive an honorable mention in the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary work in 2021. 
  • Congratulations to Amy C. Smith (PhD 2007) on the publication of her monograph, Virginia Woolf's Mythic Method (Ohio State UP, 2022).
  • Congratulations to Amrita De (PhD 2022) on receiving a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center of Humanities and Information at Penn State University.
  • Congratulations to Mushtaq Bilal (PhD. 2022) on his appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts at the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi.
  • Many congratulations to Prof. Giovanna Montenegro for having been

    selected as a Fulbright Scholar for 22/23. Her new research project, The Many Pasts and Futures of the Guianas: Between Colonial Fantasies and Environmental Resistance, was an integral part of the nomination process.