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2017 News

November

Congratulations to Frederika Tevebring

November 1, 2017

Congratulations to Frederika Tevebring for successfully defending her dissertation in November 2017. Her dissertation is entitled, "Unveiling Baubo: The Making of an Ancient Myth". (Advisor: Marianne Hopman | Home Department: Classics)

August

Congratulations to Genevieve Amaral

August 1, 2017

Congratulations to Genevieve Amaral for successfully defending her dissertation in August 2017. Her dissertation is entitled, "Act Six: Aristocracy and History in Interwar French Literature and Film". (Advisor: Christopher Bush | Home Department: French and Italian)

July

Congratulations to CLS alum, Mary Francis Bradford (2016)

July 1, 2017

Congratulations to CLS alum, Mary Francis Bradford (2016), for winning the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Presidential Undergraduate Prize! Mary's essay was entitled, “Performing Frida(,) Performing Indigeneity”.

April

Congratulations to Caitlyn Doyle

April 1, 2017

Congratulations to Caitlyn Doyle for successfully defending her dissertation in April 2017. Her dissertation is entitled, "The Aesthetic Politics of an Exhausted World: Aberrant Temporalities in the Works of Marcel Proust, Samuel Beckett, and Chantal Akerman". (Advisor: Scott Durham | Home Department: French and Italian)

Presidential Fellowship

April 1, 2017

CLS graduate student, Kritish Rajbhandari, is a 2017 Presidential Fellow, which is a highly competitive award and is the most prestigious fellowship awarded to graduate students by Northwestern University. Learn more about the Presidential Fellowship.