3/5/21 at 5:30 pm New Books in East Asian Literature: Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan
New Books in East Asian Literature The 2020-2021 theme: Kinship, Sexuality, and Emotions ………………………………………. Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan… More
2/10 at 4:00pm, New Books in East Asian Literature: Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes
New Books in East Asian Literature The 2020-2021 theme: Kinship, Sexuality, and Emotions ……………………………………………………………….. Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and… More
Penguin to Publish Sassan Tabatabai’s Translation from Persian
Professor Tabatabai has signed a contract with Penguin to publish his translation of Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind Owl, which is one of… More
Professor Abigail Gillman Named “Cooperation Partner” for German Grant Offered at University of Frankfurt
Abigail Gillman has been named a “cooperation partner” on a German grant awarded to a professor at the University of Frankfurt to… More
Big Fat Books Conference 2021: Ulysses
For Spring 2021, WLL and Classics will collaborate to host a symposium on James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Published in 1922, Ulysses is… More
Visiting Scholar Laetitia Zecchini Publishes Interview with Poet Karthika Naïr
Laetitia Zecchini is a tenured research fellow at the CNRS (Paris). Her research interests focus on contemporary Indian poetry, on postcolonial modernisms… More
German Schnitzeljagd (Scavenger Hunt)
On Friday, September 18, the German Program organized a Schnitzeljagd (scavenger hunt) for our German students on campus. 4 teams of 18… More
Chinese Events
Chinese Program Events Fall 2020 The Chinese program hosted six events this fall semester to enhance students in-person learning experience. The event… More
Hindi Events Highlights
The Hindi-Urdu program organized two in-person, LfA events for its students this semester. The first event was a game of scavenger hunt… More
MFA in Literary Translation Testimonials
As the inaugural semester for the MFA in Literary Translation comes to a close, the first cohort of students reflect on the… More