Comparatist Earl Fitz to Speak at Faculty Research Seminar on American Identity Thursday, March 23, 2017 - 3:30pm TBD Dr. Earl Fitz, Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University, will give a lecture on March 23 as part of the Faculty Research Seminar Series about Identity in the Americas. The event is organized by Frans Weiser from Comparative Literature, and Dr. Fitz's visit is supported through the assistance of the Willson Center for the Humanities, Comparative Literature, and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute. Read more about Comparatist Earl Fitz to Speak at Faculty Research Seminar on American Identity
Japanese Conversation Club Wednesday, February 8, 2017 - 6:30pm Wednesday, February 15, 2017 - 6:30pm Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 6:30pm Wednesday, March 1, 2017 - 6:30pm Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - 6:30pm Wednesday, March 15, 2017 - 6:30pm Wednesday, March 22, 2017 - 6:30pm Wednesday, March 29, 2017 - 6:30pm Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 6:30pm Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - 6:30pm Wednesday, April 19, 2017 - 6:30pm Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 6:30pm Wednesday, May 3, 2017 - 6:30pm Joe Brown Main Foyer All are welcome. For more information, contact Club President Rio Watson at riowatsn@uga.edu or Vice President Megan Spriggs at megan.spriggs25@uga.edu. Read more about Japanese Conversation Club
Swahili Instructor Application for Fall 2017 Available The search committee seeks a candidate able to teach Swahili courses at all levels (first, second, third year) and participate in a full range of activities to grow the Kiswahili program on the University of Georgia Athens campus. For more information on the position and application, click here. Read more about Swahili Instructor Application for Fall 2017 Available
Dr. O'Neill Publishes New Book Dr. O'Neiil's new book 'Famine Irish and the American Racial State' is now available. This interdisciplinary, transnational work uses an array of cultural artifacts, including novels, plays, songs, cartoons, government reports, laws, sermons, memoirs, and how-to manuals, to make its case. It challenges the claim that the Irish "became white" in the United States, showing that the claim fails to take into full account the legal position of the Irish in the nineteenth-century US state – a state that deemed the Irish "white" upon arrival. Read more about Dr. O'Neill Publishes New Book
Extended Deadline for Summer Group Abroad Project Applications to Tanzania Friday, January 27, 2017 - 5:00pm Contact Dr. Dainess Maganda The application deadline has been extended to January 27. We have received a number of applications but still have room for more. Click here to access the application form. Read more about Extended Deadline for Summer Group Abroad Project Applications to Tanzania
Betty Jean Craige Lecture, featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen Monday, February 13, 2017 - 4:00pm UGA Chapel Viet Thanh Nguyen's February 13 visit is supported by the Department of Comparative Literature and is part of the Global Georgia Initiative from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. The prestigious lecture honors Dr. Betty Jean Craige, Professor Emerita and former director of the Willson Center. Viet Thanh Nguyen is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for his 2015 novel The Sympathizer. His follow-up, 2016’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, was shortlisted for a National Book Award in nonfiction. A collection of short stories, The Refugees, will be published in February 2017. Born in Ban Me Thuot, Viet Nam in 1971, Nguyen and his family came to the United States as refugees in 1975. He earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of California, Berkeley before accepting a teaching position at the University of Southern California, where he is now the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity. Other honors for The Sympathizer include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, and the Asian/Pacific American Literature Award from the Asian/Pacific American Librarian Association. His first book, Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, was published in 2002. Additionally, Vietnam/War/Memory/Justice: A Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen will be held at 4 p.m. February 14 in the Larry Walker Room on the 4th floor of Dean Rusk Hall. Joining him will be Tiana S. Mykkeltvedt, a Georgia Law alumna and partner at the Atlanta law firm Bondurant Mixson & Elmore who was flown out of Vietnam as an orphan in April 1975, and Rusk Center Director Diane Marie Amann, Associate Dean for International Programs and Initiatives and Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law at Georgia Law, who also serves as the International Criminal Court Prosecutor’s Special Advisor on Children in & Affected by Armed Conflict. Read more about Betty Jean Craige Lecture, featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen
Willson Center Distinguished Lecture by Professor Haun Saussy Dr. Haun Saussy, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago, and former president of the American Comparative Literature Association, presented new research at the University of Georgia on September 15. The event was organized by Dr. Yuanfei Wang from Comparative Literature and was supported through the Willson Center's Distinguished Lecture Series support. Read more about Willson Center Distinguished Lecture by Professor Haun Saussy
Rabun Gap–Nacoochee School Students Visit UGA Chinese Courses Rabun Gap–Nacoochee School Students studying Mandarin III Honors and AP Mandarin class traveled to the University of Georgia on Monday, October 3, to visit Chinese classes in the Comparative Literature Department. With help from Dr. Yi, the director of Chinese Language and Literature, each student had a chance to visit 2 classes, one intermediate class and one advanced class, before meeting with the head of the department, Dr. Moshi, and gaining experience about the univeristy. Read more about Rabun Gap–Nacoochee School Students Visit UGA Chinese Courses
African Cultural Awareness Celebration Friday, November 18, 2016 - 11:00am Tate Center Grand Hall G Read more about African Cultural Awareness Celebration
Symposium on Literature and Exile Brings Prize-Winning Authors to UGA On September 15 the Comparative Literature Department hosted its first Symposium on Literature and Exile, which featured two panels and a reading. The Symposium was sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Read more about Symposium on Literature and Exile Brings Prize-Winning Authors to UGA