Luluah Mustafa received the 2016 Merlin Swartz Award for Faculty Excellence in Teaching and Research in Islam, from Muslim Studies at Boston… More
Diwali Festival, November 4, 2016
WLL Students and Faculty enjoy an evening celebrating Diwali together on November 4, 2016 The Hindi-Urdu Program, with support from WLL and… More
WLL Introduces Gateway Course
XL 100: Leaving Home, Explorations in World Literature "Growing up. Moving to the big city. Wisdom quest. Immigration. Tourism. How have the… More
Haiku as World Literature
BUCSA Asian Cultural Heritage Series Part I : The Art of Letters Haiku as World Literature A Celebration of the 150th Birthday… More
WLL Research Fellow, Dr. Sayed Hassan Hussaini, Invited to ECOTHEE 2017
Dr. Sayed Hassan Hussaini (Akhlaq), WLL Research Fellow, was invited to the 5th International Conference on Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics, ECOTHEE… More
Elie Wiesel’s legacy honored in day of learning, Daily Free Press
Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace and humanitarian activist, was also Professor in the Humanities at Boston University where… More
Welcome, Dr. Xin Wei, to World Languages & Literatures and the BU Center for the Humanities!
Dr. Xin Wei is joining us this year as the Korean Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in WLL. She completed her PhD in Oriental… More
Welcome, Dr. Sayed Hassan Hussaini (Akhlaq)!
Dr. Sayed Hassan Hussaini (Akhlaq) is a Research Fellow in the Department of World Languages & Literatures. Originally from Afghanistan, he received… More
WLL’s Anna Elliott on Translating her Twelfth Novel by Haruki Murakami
"Meet the woman who brings Haruki Murakami works to an enthusiastic Poland" "Anna Zielińska-Elliott is now translating her 12th Murakami novel from… More
A New Approach to Understanding Classical Literary Cultures: Professor Denecke publishes The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature
The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature 1000 BCE through 900 CE (coedited by Wiebke Denecke, Wai-yee Li Xiaofei Tian. New… More