MLCL welcomes new Assistant Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Sunil Sharma will join the department as Assistant Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature beginning Fall 2009. Dr. Sharma has been teaching Persian language and literature and Indian film/literature courses at BU for several years. He is a leading scholar of Persian medieval literature and the literatures of […]
Two New Majors Added: Chinese Language and Literature; and Comparative Literature!
Link to the program requirements for the new majors below: Chinese Language & Literature Comparative Literature
NYTimes: Foreign Service Hiring for Language-related Positions
“Hiring Window Is Open at the Foreign Service” by Eilene Zimmerman Thanks to new Congressional funding, the United States Foreign Service is hiring: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/jobs/21officers.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Assistant Professor Margaret Litvin talks to Bostonia
http://www.bu.edu/bostonia/winter09/hamlet/
BU to honor director Zhang Yimou
On November 7th, representatives from Boston University presented famed film director Zhang Yimou with an official invitation to attend BU’s Commencement ceremonies next spring, where he will be awarded an honorary degree. Zhang’s international profile received a boost last summer, when he directed the spectacular opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics in Beijing.
Requirements for Minor in Comparative Literature
Information about the new minor in Comparative Literature.
Abigail Gillman. Viennese Jewish Modernism: Freud, Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler and Beer-Hofmann
From Penn State University Press, forthcoming 2009. Viennese Jewish Modernism brings together three cultural phenomena usually described separately: the breakdown of traditional modes of transmitting the past to the present; the development of European modernism; and the remarkable Jewish contribution to Viennese culture in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. The crucible within which […]
Peter J. Schwartz. After Jena: Goethe’s “Elective Affinities” and the End of the Old Regime
After Jena is the first scholarly work in English to set Goethe’s influential and controversial novel Elective Affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften, 1809) squarely within the turbulent time in which it was written. Adducing evidence from many spheres and applying the tools of several disciplines, Peter J. Schwartz shows how Elective Affinities reflects changes in marriage, property […]
Comparative Literature minor approved!
The basic requirements for the Comparative Literature minor are as follows (please see the 2008 Bulletin for a more detailed description): Seven courses with a grade of C or higher are required. Internships taken on study abroad programs may not be credited toward the minor. 1. Two “Major Works” courses chosen from CAS LL 222, […]
New Fall 2008 Courses: German for Business; Middle Eastern Literature; Theory of the Novel
MLCL is offering three brand-new courses in Fall 2008! Read on for more information… CAS LG 345: German for Business and Economics. Introduction to the language of business and to the German economy within the context of European integration and globalization. Includes online research, group projects, skits, and panel discussions. Prereq: Two courses numbered CAS […]