Rutgers Comp Lit graduate students participated in the 2026 Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Conference held in Pittsburgh, presenting their research across a range of panels. Representing multiple cohorts, they … Read More
The Comparative Literature Distinguished Speaker Series is a new initiative that brings leading scholars to Rutgers whose work crosses languages, cultures, traditions, and media while engaging broader theoretical questions. It … Read More
On February 25, 2026, the Program in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University hosted Professor Daniel da Silva from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese for a talk in the Comparative … Read More
Our newly graduated Dr. Penny Yeung and second-year cohort member Chen Xing escaped from the New Jersey cold to participate in the 2025 International Sinology Seminar, Intellectual Journeys in Modern … Read More
In September, Penny Yeung defended her dissertation entitled “Double Voicing: Postmonolingual Multilingualism in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée, Dung Kai-Cheung’s Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, and Yoko Tawada’s … Read More
In September 2025, our first-year cohort member Abigail Drach took part in the London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research’s international conference on poetry. The theme of the conference was “Poetry Between … Read More
Xingming Wang defended his dissertation, “Coal Attachment: Cultures of Fossil Fuels in Modern China,” on September 26. His committee consists of Prof. Jorge Marcone (co-chair), Prof. Weijie Song (co-chair), Prof. … Read More
Our second-year cohort members, Emily Martin and Quillan Qian, attended the online Summer School PHYSIS offered by the School of Materialist Research (SMR) in Greece. The topic for this year … Read More
An ending, a beginning, a ceremony, a defense… I was lucky to “defend” in the company of friends, family, colleagues, and a generous committee whose work inspires me. It was … Read More
The dissertation is a text that lives with one for so long that it is difficult to comprehend that indeed it has to someday come to an end. If only … Read More