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Take advantage of a unique opportunity to see Academy Award-winning filmmaker Joshua Seftel at two events next Thursday, September 17: At 4pm in White Hall 207, Seftel will discuss the challenges (practical and ethical) of documentary filmmaking and then at 7:30pm in White Hall 208, he will present his 2026 Academy Award-winning short film, ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS. Following the screening, Seftel will take part in a panel discussion alongside experts in pediatric firearm injury.
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These events are co-sponsored by:
The Department of Film and Media
The Program in Human Health
The Department of Sociology
The Emory Center for Ethics
The Emory College Hightower Speaker Fund
The Department of Comparative Literature
The Program in Creative Writing
The Temple Rothschild Social Justice Gun Safety Committee by @emorycomplit

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The Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies selected Lucy Wallitsch, graduate student in English, for the biennial Lore Metzger Prize for her dissertation titled "“Caregivers, Caretakers: Sociocognitive Disability and Literary Care in Nineteenth-century American Literature.”

The prize honors a dissertation that addresses literary and social issues. Congratulations, Lucy! by @emorycomplit

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We were so lucky, in the midst of the fast-paced end to the semester, to celebrate Drs. Angelika Bammer and Maria Carrion on their retirement!

Professor Bammer joined Emory's faculty in 1986 and spent her time between the Institute for Liberal Arts and Comparative Literature. Between the two departments, she directed 26 doctoral dissertations and six undergraduate honors theses, serving as a committee member for numerous others. She started several initiatives that centered interdisciplinary and cross-discipline collaboration at Emory and within the wider Atlanta community.

Professor. Carrion worked across the Depts. of Comparative Literature, Religion, and Hispanic studies in her three decades at Emory. Her work spans religion, law, theater, natural philosophy, and plant studies. In her time at Emory, she she served in several service roles and directed eight dissertations, serving on at least 20 other committees.

We wish them both happiness and ease in their retirement! by @emorycomplit

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On April 10th, the Depts. of French and Italian and Comparative Literature held a symposium title DaDa toDay?!

This symposium traced the reaches of Dada in performance art, online culture, psychoanalysis, theatre, and poetry. Grad students Emma and Tim presented some of their work as a part of the day. by @emorycomplit

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Congratulations to our 2026 English Honors Graduates, Aimee, Fiona, Trey, and Samuel! Aimee, Trey, and Samuel led thesis presentations in the English Department, and Fiona led a thesis in Comparative Literature. We are so proud of all of you!

#emory #emoryenglish #emoryenglishdept #honors by @emorycomplit

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In case you're wondering what goes on in a Comp Lit class...

This semester, Dr. Irving Goh offered his undergrad seminar titled "Genius! From Sappho to Taylor Swift." To complement readings and discussions, Dr. Goh had several invited lecturers.

First, Poet and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Jericho Brown visited Professor Irving Goh's "Genius!" class on Feb 10, 2026. He talked about his poetry collection, The New Testament. After the class, he very generously signed copies of his book!

On April 7, 2026, Emily Daggett Smith, violinist and leader of the Vega String Quartet, which is Emory's Quartet-in-Residence, visited the seminarto talk about practicing, discipline, perfectionism, and well-being. She also performed for the class the Sarabande from Bach's Partita No.2 for solo violin. by @emorycomplit

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Last Friday, the English and Comparative Literature Depts. came together to celebrate our undergraduates who completed an honors thesis. The event showcased their scholarship and gave the students a chance to talk about what goes into working on a year-long writing project.

Fiona (3rd from the left) was this year's Comparative Literature honors student. Her project, "Eating Words and Worlds: Food Writing, Othering, and the Aftertaste of Power" received highest honors in her defense. Way to go, @fionamferguson ! by @emorycomplit

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Also in March, we welcomed back a lovely group of Comp Lit BA Alums for a panel discussion. The goal of the panel was to discuss the perennial question: "Well, what do you do with a degree in Comparative Literature!?"

Our alumni are in graduate school and law school, working in software, writing professionally, and working in higher education. Across the board though, regardless of career, all of our panelists expressed how important their skills in reading deeply and writing incisively have been in their lives since graduation.

Huge thanks to Juliana, Ben, Zach, Sofia, Yazi, and Allen for connecting with our undergrads! by @emorycomplit

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Prof. Debjani Ganguly (Prof. of English at University of Virginia and Director of the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University) came to Emory in March.

Dr. Ganguly give a lecture on speculative forms, planetary realism, and vitalist futures-- how we might imagine futures in an age of technological and environmental upheaval. She also led a workshop on the theoretical and practical challenges of interdisciplinary work. by @emorycomplit

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In February, we celebrated the publishing of Dr. Irving Goh's (Emory Comparative Literature) book, Living On After Failure: Affective Structures of Modern Life. Dr. Goh presented a reading from his book, followed by a conversation with Dr. Jack Halberstam (Columbia University) on affect and negativity.

The next day, Dr. Halberstam led a workshop and gave a lecture around his forthcoming book, Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto (MIT Press, Fall 2026). by @emorycomplit

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Spring 2026 semester's talks kicked off with a visit from Dr. Alvin Wong, Assoc. Professor of Comparative Literature at Hong Kong University.

Wong discussed his book, Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone (Duke UP, 2025). He also led a workshop on publishing the first book. by @emorycomplit

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Next up, in November we welcomed Dr. Adam Rosenthal (Emory Comp Lit PhD Alum!) for a lecture and workshop.

The lecture was titled "Hospitality and the History of Foreign Bodies" and the workshop discussed Dr. Rosenthal's recent published book, Prosthetic Immortalities Biology, Transhumanism, and the Search for Indefinite Life (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). by @emorycomplit

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