The Comparative Literature Graduate Program along with The Department of Spanish and Portuguese and The Dean of Humanities of the College of Arts & Sciences

presents a lecture by

José María Rodríguez-García Associate Professor, Duke University

“Decisions and Indecisions in José Ortega y Gasset, [...]]]>

The Comparative Literature Graduate Program
along with
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese
and
The Dean of Humanities of the College of Arts & Sciences

presents a lecture by

José María Rodríguez-García
Associate Professor, Duke University

“Decisions and Indecisions in José Ortega y Gasset, Carl Schmitt and María Zambrano”

Tuesday, February 12
4:30 – 5:30 pm
Center for British & Irish Studies, Norlin Library M549

Professor José María Rodríguez-García’s research interests lie in the areas of Spanish political intellectual history and its transAtlantic projections, the literatures of plurinational Spain, the history of lyric forms, and in translation and comparative poetics with special focus on Colombia, Spain and Mexico.  His book The City of Translation: Poetry and Ideology in Nineteenth Century Colombia (2010) was the recipient of the PROSE award.  His current volume in progress is titled “From Revolution to Revelation: A Critically Edited English Translation of María Zambrano’s Filosofía y Poesía (1939).”  Over fifty essays published in American and European journals, from Diacritics to Cuadernos de Investigación Filólogica and Bulletin Hispanique attest to Professor Rodríguez-García’s prolific and wide ranging profile in current intellectual and literary studies.  Professor Rodríguez-García received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Boulder, Colorado.

The Comparative Literature Graduate Program is proud to announce three PhD graduates for Fall 2012:

* Alexander Starkweather Fobes

* Petra Landfester

* Angela Polidori-Scordo

Congratulations on your extraordinary accomplishments!

Friday, November 30 4:00 pm Ketchum 313

Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield received her Licence and Maitrise de Lettres from the Sorbonne University (Paris IV). She completed her Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of California at San Diego and taught briefly at [...]]]> Come to Coffee Hour for a chance to speak with French Professor Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield.

Friday, November 30
4:00 pm
Ketchum 313

Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield received her Licence and Maitrise de Lettres from the Sorbonne University (Paris IV).  She completed her Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of California at San Diego and taught briefly at the University of Kentucky before coming to the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2002 where she specializes in the poetry of the last two centuries, critical theory and philosophy. Her recent book on Georges Bataille and literature was published by the Presses Universitaires du Septentrion in 2009.  Elisabeth, who is now working on representations of Animality in 20th century thought and culture as well as questions of trauma and memory, has also published articles on Bataille, Ponge, Michon, Proust, Boubacar Diop and Marie NDiaye.

Congratulations to PhD student Andrew Gilbert who won the Writing Contest (in English) sponsored by the Department of French & Italian for their annual celebration of Italian Language Week. The Judging Committee was composed of Italian Faculty members.

Thursday, May 10 UMC 247 11:00 am Refreshments served 11:30 am Ceremony will begin

We will honor our graduates:

Tonja Van Helden, PhD Sarah Jane Gray, PhD Erica Carley, MA Brian Egdorf, MA Lacey Smith, MA Jiayao Wang, MA

Erica Carley Brian Egdorf Lacey Smith Jiayao Wang

Each of them has successfully defended their thesis.

Congratulations Math!

The Graduate School receives nominations from all graduate programs for this prestigious award. Faculty members and students submit letters of support and ten recipients are chosen from the dozens of nominees. Ross’ excellent FCQ scores [...]]]> CLGP PhD student Ross Etherton was selected as one of ten recipients of a 2011-2012 Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award!!

The Graduate School receives nominations from all graduate programs for this prestigious award.  Faculty members and students submit letters of support and ten recipients are chosen from the dozens of nominees.  Ross’ excellent FCQ scores made the Comparative Literature Graduate Program confident in nominating him.  But it was over twenty letters of support from past and current students, plus Ross’ excellent performance in an in-class evaluation that convinced the Graduate School committee that Ross was a clear choice for an award.  Congratulations Ross!!