MLCL Becomes WLL
The Department of World Languages & Literatures (WLL), formerly the Department of Modern Language & Comparative Literature (MLCL), comprises 38 full-time faculty members who teach a total of ten languages and literatures from East and South Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. While this makes for an exciting range of courses and scholarship, it also […]
Freedom for Ahmed Naji
Worldwide Reading on May 12, 2016 from 12-1:30pm GSU Art Gallery In February 2016, Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison. The sentence, for “violating public modesty,” stems from the publication of an excerpt from his 2014 novel Istikhdam al-Hayah (Using Life) in Akhbar al-Adab magazine. This both violates Ahmed’s right […]
WLL Student Chosen for Prestigious Boren Scholarship
Caroline Lord has been awarded a David L. Boren Scholarship to study in Jordan during the 2016-17 academic year. Caroline is currently an undergraduate student with a triple major in Asian Studies, Middle East and North Africa Studies, and History at BU, and a student worker for WLL. She will study Arabic at the Qasid […]
Japan Under Abe: The End of Civil Discourse
Join us on April 14th at 5pm in 745 Commonwealth Avenue room B19 for a lecture by Yuji Kitamaru!Yuji Kitamaru lives in New York where he works as a Freelance Journalist, Columnist, and Radio Commentator for various Japanese Media. He is a former Tokyo Shimbun NY Bureau Chief (1996) and from 1981-1993 he served as […]
‘No One Like Us Here’: A Century of Latin American Travel to India
Join us on April 20th from 3-5pm in STH 636 for an exciting talk by Professor Roanne Kantor of Brandeis University’s Department of English
MLCL Open House
Margaret Litvin’s Book Launch for Four Arab Hamlet Plays
MLCL’s own Margaret Litvin has co-edited and co-translated an anthology, Four Arab Hamlet Plays. A book launch with staged readings will be in NYC on March 14! To learn more, please go to the event website, here.
Peace Process
Abigail Gillman Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature Peace Rally, Marsh Plaza, Boston University January 18, 2016 My name is Abigail Gillman. I have taught in the Modern Languages Department, in the Core Curriculum, and in Jewish Studies for over twenty years. I normally celebrate MLK day at home, preparing for the first […]
Dr Sassan Tabatabai Publishes a Piece on Translation in ‘Essays in Criticism’
Modern Languages and Comparative Literature’s own Dr. Sassan Tabatabai has published an article on translation. Read the whole piece here!
Professor Wiebke Denecke publishes first volume of a revisionary history of Japanese Literature: A New History of Japanese “Letterature”
A New History of Japanese “Letterature” [日本「文」学史 Nihon “bun”gakushi, coedited with Kōno Kimiko, Shinkawa Tokio, and Jinnō Hidenori. Volume 1 (Tokyo: Bensei shuppan, 2015) This volume breaks with a century-old tradition of writing the history of Japanese literature as the triumphal evolution of Japanese vernacular literature, at the expense of the authoritative tradition of […]