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 […]
Professor Margaret Litvin on the Refugee Crisis: Why There are No Chosen Peoples, Only People Making Choices
If you embrace neither religion nor nationalism, you aren’t left many holidays to celebrate. Your own birthdays; New Year’s Eve. (My Soviet immigrant family didn’t know about solstice gatherings yet.) But tough-minded and hypocrisy-averse though we tried to be, we made room for two: Passover in the spring, Thanksgiving in the fall. These occasions were […]
The Hijacking of Algerian Identity
Read this article by MLCL’s Kheireddine Bekkai here!
Read about the “Korean Wave” in BU Today!
Modern Language and Comparative Literature senior lecturer Jaemin Roh teaches a Korean language class. Photo by Cydney Scott In little more than a decade, South Korea has become a major exporter of pop culture, fueled by the popularity of Korean pop (K-pop) music and videos on YouTube and serialized TV K-dramas. Teenagers and college […]
Under the Algerian Sun Camus and Daoud
It’s the rare writer who can pick up where Albert Camus — master of midcentury philosophy and fiction — left off in the modern classic, The Outsider (formerly translated as The Stranger). But Kamel Daoud, an Algerian journalist and writer, has done just that in his new novel, The Meursault Investigation, just released in English. […]
BU Japanese Alumni Publish Kahoku Shinpo Articles
Seven alumni of the BU Japanese program have translated articles describing the aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. The articles originally appeared in Kahoku Shinpo (a daily newspaper published in Sendai). The volunteer translators were Marli Gordon, Steven Kroman, Jenna Moriwaki, Margaret Ngo, Ben DeTora, Samik Sikand, and Aurora Tsai. The first five translations were […]
The Chinese Policitical Novel by MLCL’s Catherine Yeh on Sale Now!
Harvard East Asian Monographs 380 The Chinese Political Novel Migration of a World Genre Add to Cart Product Details HARDCOVER $59.95 • £44.95 • €54.00 ISBN 9780674504356 Publication: April 2015 Available 03/23/2015 The political novel, which enjoyed a steep yet short rise to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s, is primarily concerned with […]