New article and podcast with Professor Mueller
Rebecca Janzen receives German fellowship
The fellowship program allows experienced faculty researchers to collaborate with peers at host institutions in Germany and to join a network that includes 61 Nobel Prize winners.
Scholarships available for Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature!
DLLC is announcing that opportunities for scholarships for prospective CPLT graduate students applying for admission this spring for up to $5,000
German professor receives prestigious Berlin Prize fellowship
Agnes Mueller, a professor of comparative lit and German studies, will use the Berlin Prize Fellowship in Germany to finish her book on how modern Jewish writers preserve Holocaust memory.
USC students lead energy-saving initiative for Columbia households
Two Arts and Sciences students are powering up their community by creating a new energy-saving program that will benefit low-income households.
The French Connection
former USC classmates team-teach across the Atlantic!
Greg Patterson has a new book!
Elegies for Empire: A Poetics of Memory in the Late Work of Du Fu (Harvard Asia Center), is now available for pre-order.
Congratulations to Jorge Camacho!
who has been awarded an SEC Visiting Faculty Travel Grant
Prof. Mueller is a Berlin Prize Fellow for Spring 2025
Allen Miller has published a new book
Theory Does Not Exist: Comparative Ancient and Modern Explorations in Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, and Rhetoric.
Summer internship in Kazakhstan leads Russian major to dream career path
During his internship in Kazakhstan last summer, McLean Brown gained not only a wealth of research experience but also a grandmother figure and friend named Zaya.
Prof. Wright awarded fellowship
Prof. Janzen has won a summer research fellowship
Prof. Janzen has been awarded funding to conduct continuing research on religion in mining.
Prof. Moreno offers insights on experiential learning
Prof. Mueller chairs panel at the Augusta Jewish Museum
Prof. Mueller was the invited keynote speaker on the "Perspectives on Hate," panel organized by the Augusta Jewish Museum, serving communities in South Carolina and Augusta.
Congratulations to CPLT. Graduate Student Jingsheng Zhang!
The Office of Research has awarded a SPARC Graduate Research Grant to: Jingsheng Zhang for her research proposal "Re-reading the Intellectual Turn in 1980s Chinese Poetic Field: A Study of Unofficial Poetry Journals after 1985"
Congratulations to Ting Ting Hu!
Tingting Hu has accepted a position at Renmin University of China (RUC).
Lara Lomicka Anderson receives CERCLL fellowship
Prof. Lomicka Anderson has been awarded a CERCLL faculty research fellowship from the University of Arizona.
Daria Smirnova has been awarded a summer dissertation grant from ASEEES
We are thrilled to announce that CPLT PhD student Daria Smirnova has been awarded a summer dissertation grant from ASEEES, the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, which is the leading international organization dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about Central Asia, the Caucasus, Russia, and Eastern Europe in regional and global contexts.
Canceled study abroad trip leads to new career goals
One week before Josh Hughes planned to study abroad in Ukraine in fall 2022, his trip was canceled because of escalating conflict with Russia. He was disappointed -- until a new opportunity arose in Kyrgyzstan in spring 2023.
Robbie Pokora broadened his global perspective at USC
USC has aided me in developing a global perspective. For the first time, I traveled outside the country to Quito, Ecuador, with a medical service brigade setting up free health clinics in rural, underserved areas treating over 400 patients. I used my Spanish to interpret for providers and patients, record medical histories and translate prescription labels. In the summer of 2022, I completed a pre-medical internship in Seville, Spain, at La Clínica Santa Isabel.
Congratulations to Meagan Heath for winning a Bilinski Fellowship!
Meagan Heath has been awarded a Bilinski Educational Foundation Fellowship.
Josh Hughes has been double awarded for travel to Kyrgyzstan!
Undergraduate RUSS/POLI major Josh Hughes has been awarded a Walker Institute grant and a Magellan grant to conduct archival research this summer in Kyrgyzstan!
Prof. Carolyn L. Hansen (1950 - 2023)
On February 9, the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures lost a cherished former faculty member, Carolyn L. Hansen, who taught Spanish at the University for more than thirty years. Carolyn was hired as a Teaching Associate in 1977, promoted to the rank full-time Instructor in 1981, and served as a Senior Instructor from 1984 until her retirement in 2010.