Congratulations to Izabelle Jonsson, CLS Recipient!
Congratulations are in order! Comparative Literature major Izabelle Jonsson (CAS ’26) won a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. She is one of the 315 recipients selected from the pool of 4500 applicants. With this award, she will spend two months this summer studying Korean […]
New Profile on Professor Margaret Litvin
BUCH has produced a new profile on Professor Margaret Litvin, discussing her background in journalism and her research into the connections between the Soviet and Arab worlds. You can read it here.
Meet the Poet: A Talk With Dr. Ghazala Alam
New BA to MFA in Literary Translation!
Beginning in spring 2025, undergraduate students will be able to apply for a BA to MFA in Literary Translation! Accepted students will be able to count two classes towards both degrees in their senior year, getting a head start on the master’s program. There are currently eight areas of study for the new program, including […]
Literature and Thought in Transwar Japan(04/18)
How do we read an idea when it appears in the literary form of a novel, poem, or translation, rather than in the expository form of philosophy per se? My 2022 book Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought thinks through this question by tracing the connections between the realms of literature and […]
Screening of Babushkas of Chernobyl (03/05)
TOMORROW: To mark the two-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Professors Corrigan (Russian literature), Peri (history), Litvin (Arabic and comparative literature), and I (Kogel) will host a screening of The Babushkas of Chernobyl on Tuesday, March 5th 4:30-6:00. In true babushkas fashion, we will provide some Ukrainian snacks. About the film: In the radioactive Dead Zone surrounding Chernobyl’s Reactor No. 4, […]
Comparative Persianate Aesthetics Symposium
Boston University September 28-29, 2017 154 Bay State Road, The Eilts Room Free and open to the public Middle Eastern and South Asian studies in the last decade have been energized by the idea of the “Persianate” cultural realm in which the Persian language and courtly conduct (adab) played a central role in societies from the Balkans […]
XL 100 Explorations in World Literature: Leaving Home
Fall 2017 CAS XL 100 Explorations in World Literature: Leaving Home Growing up Wisdom quest Migration Sightseeing Escape The theme of leaving home shapes many of the most memorable characters and narratives in world literature, from Sindbad to the Shining Prince Genji, from Snow White to Monkey’s Journey to the West, all the way to […]
Candidates for Assistant Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature visit BU
Please join us as we welcome candidates for the position of Assistant Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature. Over the next few weeks, there will be four lectures: “How Poetry Mattered in 1920s Korea” Friday, January 27, 2012 School of Theology, Room 625, 4-6pm “Nation and Gender in Modern Korean Literature: Focusing on Representations of […]
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 […]