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Discontinuous Compositions: Reading Fragments – CTL Biennial Graduate Student Conference 2024

Discontinuous Compositions: Reading Fragments – CTL Biennial Graduate Student Conference 2024

The Graduate Students of the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University are proud to announce our biennial conference on April 5 and 6, 2024. We are […]

Professor Satoru Hashimoto receives Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award

Professor Satoru Hashimoto receives Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award

Congratulations to Satoru Hashimoto, who has been chosen as a 2022 Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award recipient. Prof. Hashimoto is among a cohort of exceptional thirty-eight early career faculty members selected […]

Communities of Distance – CTL Biennial Graduate Student Conference 2022

Communities of Distance – CTL Biennial Graduate Student Conference 2022

February 18 @ 8:00 am – February 19 @ 5:00 pm The Graduate Students of the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University are proud to announce their biennial conference on February 18 […]

Lisa Siraganian wins MLA’s Matei Calinescu Prize for her latest book

Lisa Siraganian wins MLA’s Matei Calinescu Prize for her latest book

The Modern Language Association of America today announced its sixth annual Matei Calinescu Prize for a distinguished work of scholarship in twentieth- or twentieth-first-century literature and thought. The winner is […]

Professor Lisa Siraganian wins the 2020 MSA Book Prize

Professor Lisa Siraganian wins the 2020 MSA Book Prize

Lisa Siraganian’s latest book, Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons (Oxford University Press, 2020) has been awarded the MSA Book Prize. Each year, the Modernist Studies Association seeks nominations for its […]

Professor Yi-Ping Ong receives 2021 Diversity Recognition Award

Professor Yi-Ping Ong has been selected by the Johns Hopkins Diversity Leadership Council to receive a 2021 Diversity Recognition Award. This award acknowledges outstanding accomplishments of faculty, staff, students, and […]

Communities of Distance – CTL Biennial Graduate Student Conference 2022

Communities of Distance – CTL Biennial Graduate Student Conference 2022

The Graduate Students of the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University are proud to announce their biennial conference on February 18 and 19, 2022. We are […]

Professor Anne Eakin Moss’s book shortlisted for the AATSEEL Best First Book Award

Professor Anne Eakin Moss’s book Only Among Women: Philosophies of Community in the Russian and Soviet Imagination, 1860-1940  (Northwestern University Press, 2019) has been shortlisted for the Best First Book Award […]

Leonardo Lisi discusses Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People in relation to COVID-19 on the show ‘Public Health On Call’

In a conversation with Dr. Josh Sharfstein on the Podcast “Public Health On Call,” Leonardo Lisi discusses Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play An Enemy of the People in connection with the current pandemic.

Doctoral candidate Jacob Levi has been named a winner of the 2020 Translation Prize of the French-American Society

Doctoral candidate Jacob Levi has been named a winner of the 2020 Translation Prize of the French-American Society for his co-translation of Marc Crépon’s Murderous Consent: On the Accomodation of Violent Death, published by […]