Margaret Litvin wins ALCS-Burkhardt Fellowship
Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, Margaret Litvin, has just won one of the most competitive annual fellowships, the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). She will be spending the 2015-16 academic year at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study researching the history of Arab-Russian […]
MLCL Student Receives the Gregory Hudson Award for Writing Excellence in the Humanities
Recent MLCL Graduate William Wallis was recently named the winner of the prestigious Gregory Hudson Award for Writing Excellence in the Humanities for his thesis “Betwixt and Between: Ubertino Carrara and Lin Zexu”. MLCL’s Margaret Litvin described his work: Beyond mere erudition, William Wallis’s writing shows an original, thoughtful approach to intellectual problems and a […]
2 MLCL Professors Awarded Humanities Fellowships at BU
Two MLCL professors, Abigail Gilman and Yoon Sun Yang, took a selfie on the way to the BUCH Incoming Fellows’ luncheon on May 2. Professor Gillman will be a Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellow and Professor Yang, a Junior Faculty Fellow for the academic year 2014-2015.
Six Boston University Students Receive Honors in National Russian Essay Contest
Six Boston University students won Gold, Silver and Bronze awards, as well as Honorable Mentions, in the National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest, sponsored by the American Council of Teachers of Russian (http://actr.org/). Over 1,000 students from all over the United States compete in the contest every year, and many of the students who place come […]
Two MLCL Students Win Fulbright Awards!
We are excited to report that two German Language and Literature Majors have won prestigious Fulbright Scholarships. Congratulations Matthew Egger and Alex Williams! Matthew Egger, graduating senior was awarded a Fulbright grant for next year. He will be attending the first year of a Master’s program in classical archaeology and ancient numismatics at the […]
MLCL Student Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
Congratulations to Comparative Literature major William Wallis, who has been elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa by the Epsilon of Massachusetts Chapter at Boston University.
MLCL Students Win East Asian Studies Essay Prizes
At Commencement in May 2013, BU’s East Asian Studies Interdisciplinary Program granted for the first time three essay prizes for the best undergraduate term papers on East Asia submitted in 2012-13. Read about the students who won here!
2012 Award Winners Announced
The department is pleased to announce the winners of our 2012 academic achievement awards. College Award for Excellence, Modern Languages & Comparative Literature Richard Russell Hayes, Jr. Chinese Language and Literature Jessica Cai, Barbara Argote Senior Award Comparative Literature Beverly Ang, Barbara Argote Junior Award German Language and Literature Hillary Gospodarek, Barbara Argote Junior Award […]
Comparative Lit. major Wins BU Humanities Award
Congratulations to Comparative Literature major Anna Diorio, who has won a BU Center for the Humanities Award!
MLCL student wins top prize at Japanese Speech Contest
MLCL student Lauren Makishima took first prize on April 22 at the Japanese Speech Contest sponsored by the Consulate General of Japan. Twelve finalists representing Harvard, MIT and other schools in the area competed in the advanced division. Lauren’s talk addressed Japanese homogeneous cultural identity and what it means to be Japanese from the outside. […]