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Comparative Literature

Welcome to Comparative Literature! Faculty Spotlight

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE at Rutgers is a thriving interdisciplinary department offering a multi-tracked major and minor and an
innovative, wide-ranging doctoral program. Comp Lit students consider texts and performances across multiple languages, histories,
disciplines, and media. Each of our majors or minors constructs a unique course of literary, linguistic, and cultural study with the
supervision and support of our distinguished faculty. Well known for its emphases on critical thinking and incisive writing, Rutgers Comp Lit
seeks to prepare its students for the diverse world we commonly inhabit. Our graduates contribute significantly to the professions, the arts,
education, and the global media.

NEWS FLASH: Professor Elin Diamond,

an internationally-recognized scholar of
comparative drama and formerly Director
Check out Why Comp Lit? and People for more about who we are and what we do. of Graduate Studies in Comparative
Literature, has won the Geoffrey Marshall
Mentoring Award granted by the
Northeastern Association of Graduate
Schools.

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Graduate Student Spotlight
Comp Lit congratulates our latest
doctors:
Huseyin Ekrem Ulus: "Nationalism, Secularism, Belonging
and Identity in Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, and Orhan
Pamuk" (2016)
Carolyn Urea: "Invisible Wounds: Rethinking Recognition in
Decolonial Narratives of Illness and Disability" (2017)
Congratulations also to...
Qingfeng Nie and Penny Pui Chee Yeung, each the winner of
a 2017 Mellon Summer Study Award
our recent PhD Monica Filimon on the publication of her book
Cristi Puiu (2017) in the Contemporary Film Directors Series of
the University of Illinois Press
Newsflash
Professor Elin Diamond Wins Graduate Student
Mentoring Award
Professor Elin Diamond, an internationally-recognized scholar of
comparative drama and formerly Director of Graduate Studies in
Comparative Literature, has won the 2017 Geoffrey Marshall
Mentoring Award granted by the Northeastern Association of
Graduate Schools.
This award is given in memory of Geoffrey Marshall, former
President of the NAGS, for outstanding support of a graduate
student or graduate students from course completion through
research and placement. Criteria include: provision of sound advice
with respect to course of study; encouraging the best performance
from students; generosity of time or other measures of effort at
mentoring; assisting students through to successful completion and
placement; advice and other assistance regarding quality and
quantity of student papers or other forms of publication and
performance; extraordinary efforts or success with placement.

The Rutgers Program in Comparative Literature nominated

Professor Diamond in recognition of her outstanding effort as a
mentor, especially during her years of service as Graduate Director,
as well as for her work on behalf of students in her home
department, English. Many of her former students wrote eloquent
accounts of Elin's dedication to their professional personal and
progress.

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