Diana Deng won the 2025-2026 Presidential Undergraduate Prize (Best Undergraduate Essay on a Comparative Topic). This is the second year in a row that a Comparative Literary Studies student has won this prize, and fifth in total. (2025-26 Citation) Congratulations Diana!
Kritish Rajbhandari, Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College (PhD CLS and English at Northwestern, 2019), has published his first book, The Indian Ocean and the Historical Imagination in Afro-Asian Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2026). You can find his book here. (discount code TIOHI2025).
Jonas Rosenbrück, Assistant Professor of German at Amherst College (PhD CLS and German at Northwestern, 2020) was just awarded the prestigious Friedrich-Hölderlin-Forscherpreis by the Hölderlin Society in recognition of his stellar scholarship, including his book, Common Scents Poetry, Modernity, and a Revolution of the Senses (SUNY Press, 2024). You can find his book here.
