News & Announcements Archive

Brahim El Guabli receives MELA Book Awards Honorable Mention for his latest book

The Middle East Librarians Association today announced its 2024 MELA Book Awards for outstanding work related to Middle East studies librarianship, the history of Middle East libraries/scholarship, or other topics […]

Fulbright Scholar Nana Sharikadze joins CTL in Fall 2024

Fulbright Scholar Nana Sharikadze joins CTL in Fall 2024

The Department of Comparative Thought and Literature is very pleased to welcome Professor Nana Sharikadze from Tbilisi, Georgia, as a visiting Fulbright Scholar this Fall. Professor Sharikadze is an Associate […]

Call for PhD Applications

The Department of Comparative Thought and Literature (CTL) warmly invites applications for admission to the PhD program for the 2025-2026 academic year. The deadline for the submission of the complete […]

Christopher Taylor receives 2024-2025 CTL Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Department of Comparative Thought and Literature is pleased to announce that Christopher Taylor will join as a postdoctoral fellow on July 1, 2024. Prior to his postdoctoral appointment, Chris […]

Doctoral Candidate Eleni Theodoropoulos receives Fulbright-IKY Ph.D. Research Award

Congratulations to Eleni Theodoropoulos, who has been selected to receive a Fulbright-IKY Ph.D. Research Award. During her 2024-2025 U.S. Fulbright-IKY Ph.D. Research Award, Eleni will be researching the modernist Greek […]

Professor Jane Bennett and Doctoral Candidate Mengqi (Mercy) An receive AGHI Fellowships

Congratulations to Professor Jane Bennett and doctoral candidate Mengqi (Mercy) An, who have been awarded a faculty fellowship and a graduate research fellowship, respectively, from the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute […]

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 […]