Tag: Comparative Literature
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Nation & World
Elif Batuman returns to Harvard
Author and alum Elif Batuman explains how changes, questions in her own life informed path of protagonist in new novel “Either/Or.”
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A world tour with David Damrosch
David Damrosch, chair of the Comparative Literature Department, revised pandemic-era essays into “Around the World in 80 Books.”
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Take a bow
Since Theater, Dance & Media launched in fall 2015 as Harvard’s 49th official concentration, almost 40 College students have graduated with a concentration in TDM and more than 90 have pursued secondary concentrations in the field.
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A literary translator, far from home, feels a tie with an exiled Ovid
Muhua Yang ’21 — living in Cambridge and separated from friends and family by the pandemic — chose the elegies of the five volumes of “Tristia” as the subject of their senior thesis in literary translation.
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Fighting bigotry with art
The Wave started as a pan-Asian literary and arts magazine, but its mission changed with the rise of racism and xenophobia after pandemic.
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3 takes on dealing with uncertainty
In these volatile times, three Harvard professors share insights from their fields on how to handle uncertainty.
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‘Humanity’ through a telephone by way of a telescope
A large-scale, audio-video installation uses the Fukushima nuclear disaster as a starting point to examine the fragility of humanity. “Ah humanity!” was created by Harvard artists Ernst Karel, Véréna Paravel, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor.
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Dorrit Cohn, literature scholar, 87
Dorrit Cohn ’45, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus, died March 11. A professor of German and comparative literature, Cohn was one of three women appointed to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1971.
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Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea
Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature Svetlana Boym explores the cross-cultural history of the idea of freedom, discusses its limitations, and wonders how it can be newly imagined.
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Teaching as ‘a secular pulpit’
After a quarter century, David Damrosch left Columbia to pursue his passions in literature and languages at Harvard.
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Amanda Claybaugh named professor of English
Amanda Claybaugh, an expert on 19th century novels and on reformist writings from the United States and abroad, has been named professor of English at Harvard, effective July 1.
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Damrosch named professor of comparative literature
David Damrosch, a scholar of world literature, has been appointed professor of comparative literature in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1, 2009.