Archive: Comparative Literature

• Esteemed Poet and Translator Gives Talk on New Book

  October 31, 2019

  Dick Davis, globally acknowledged leading translator of Persian poetry, gave a reading from his newly published book The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women at Georgetown on Thursday, October 24, 2019.

  Category: News Story Tags: Arabic and Islamic Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Event, Georgetown Humanities Initiative, Medieval Studies, Persian

• Pireddu to lead Georgetown Humanities Initiative

  October 1, 2019

  Nicoletta Pireddu, a professor in the Department of Italian and an expert in Comparative Literature, will be the inaugural director of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative starting January 2020.

  Category: News Story Tags: Comparative Literature, Faculty, Humanities Initiative, Italian, Research

• Three Students Present Research at ACLA Conference

  April 18, 2019

  While many of their peers went home or took vacations, three College students stayed on campus to present original papers at the 2019 American Comparative Literature Conference, the country’s largest annual gathering of comparative literature scholars.

  Category: News Story Tags: Comparative Literature, Events, Humanities Initiative, Research, Students, Undergraduate Research

• Georgetown Hosts 2019 ACLA Conference

  February 25, 2019

  From March 7 to 10, Georgetown University will host the 2019 American Comparative Literature Association’s Annual Meeting, one of the world’s largest conferences of comparative literature scholars.

  Category: News Story Tags: Comparative Literature, Events