2018 News
November
Comp Lit Faculty Participate in Andrew W. Mellon Critical Theory in the Global South Project
November 13, 2018
Comparative Literary Studies faculty participate in Northwestern’s new $1 million Mellon-funded project, Critical Theory in the Global South. The project is among the new collaborative partnerships of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP). Through partnerships with a group of North American, Latin American, and South African institutions, a number of Inter-University Teaching Cooperations will receive funding to develop new courses on critical theory in the Global South, a new program of international faculty and graduate exchanges, and a series of inter-university doctoral workshops, conferences and translations. Please visit the project's website to learn more! November 6, 2018
October
October 18, 2018
CLS Grad Student, Sorrel Dunn, receives TGS Beiling Wu Prize in Writing
October 18, 2018
Congratulations to Comparative Literary Studies PhD student,
Sorrel Dunn, for receiving the
2018 Beiling Wu Prize in Writing! The
Beiling Wu Prize in Writing is named for a former Northwestern graduate student in the humanities and is awarded to a doctoral student who wrote the best essay on literature or literary culture in the first year of the PhD program.
October 17, 2018
June
Maziyar Faridi awarded Ferdowsi Tusi Award in Persian Literature and Culture
June 20, 2018
Comp Lit PhD student, Maziyar Faridi, receives inaugural Ferdowsi Tusi Award in Persian Literature and Culture for his paper, “Férydoun Rahnéma’s Inappropriable Specters: Critique of Self-Identity and the Emergence of Iranian New Wave Cinema”.Congratulations, Maziyar!
June 20, 2018
March
CLS graduate student, Scott Newman, awarded inaugural Buffett Institute Graduate Student Fellowship
March 1, 2018
Congratulations to Scott Newman who was awarded the inaugural Buffett Institute Graduate Student Fellowship in 2018-19 and 2019-20! This award is the highest recongition that Buffett bestows upon a Northwestern graduate student. Way to go, Scott!
CLS PhD alum, Frederika Tevebring, awarded Frances A. Yates Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Warburg Institute in London
March 1, 2018
Congratulations to Frederika Tevebring who was awarded the highly prestigious Frances A. Yates Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Warburg Institute in London! Frederika will spend the year developing a book manuscript based on her dissertation on the mythical figure Baubo. She is thrilled to continue her work at the institute founded by Aby Warburg, a pioneer in the study of the afterlife of ancient motifs.
February
CLS alum, Emma Montgomery, wins ACLA Presidential Undergraduate Prize
February 1, 2018
Congratulations to CLS alum, Emma Montgomery (2017), for winning the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Presidential Undergraduate Prize! Emma's essay was entitled, “The Diasporic Archive: A Black Atlantic Poetics of Liberation through Limitation”.
