News & Announcements Archive

Ways of Reading: Beyond, Beneath, and Beside Theory

The Graduate Students of the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University are proud to announce their bi-annual conference on February 22 and 23, 2019. We are pleased to host keynote speakers Heather Love (Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania) and Bernie Rhie (Associate Professor of English, Williams College).

Yi-Ping Ong Awarded Honorable Mention, Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize, for First Book

Yi-Ping Ong Awarded Honorable Mention, Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize, for First Book

Prof. Yi-Ping Ong’s book The Art of Being: Poetics of the Novel and Existentialist Philosophy has received honorable mention for the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize, presented by Harvard University Press […]

In Memoriam: Stanley Cavell

In Memoriam: Stanley Cavell

It is with great sadness that the Departments of Comparative Thought and Literature, Anthropology, and Philosophy announce the passing of Professor Stanley Cavell, who has been a major influence on […]

Humanities Center Becomes Department of Comparative Thought and Literature

As of January 1, 2018, the name of the Humanities Center will be the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature. The new name recognizes the department’s ongoing commitment to serious interdisciplinary study, with a focus on questions at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and aesthetics.