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November 12, 2024Humanities MA alum Caitilin Damacion joined HUM 300 to discuss her father's poetry, a focus of her MA thesis, "For Those I’v…
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July 24, 2024Congratulations to the Humanities, American Studies, and Comparative & World Literature students who made the Spring 202…
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May 24, 2024Congratulations to our Humanities and Comparative World Literature graduates! The department of Humanities and Comparative W…
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April 18, 2024Congratulations to CWL graduate students Naazley Boozari and Taylor Nasim stone for presenting their work at the Graduate Re…
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April 03, 2024CWL MA Student Bruna de Lima will be presenting her paper “The Machinery of Censorship Under the Military Dictatorship in Br…
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March 25, 2024Current Comp Lit MA student Mikey Pagan and MA alum Vered Weiss both presented at the “Literature and Its ‘Other’ Traditions…
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January 29, 2024Professor of Jewish Studies Kitty Millet is putting on a conference at SFSU on “Literature and Its ‘Others,’” in her role as…
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December 07, 2023Humanities class helps fill in equity gaps among STEM professionals from underrepresented groups Wikipedia is among the mos…
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October 13, 2023MA student Bruna Aoto Franco de Lima will be presenting a paper at the Latin American Studies Association Annual Congress. T…
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October 05, 2023Comparative Literature MA Student Taylor Stone will be presenting her paper, "Sacred Snake Blood: the Dualism of Serpent Sym…
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June 30, 2023Comparative World Literature M.A. graduate Jung Choi recently published a book with Routledge: The Life and Works of Korean…
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June 29, 2023CWL BA alum Isis Wozniakowska, who will also be entering the Comparative World Literature MA program this Fall, was intervie…
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June 16, 2023Comparative World Literature minor Gabriella Melton (BA Spring 2023) published an article in the Sutro Review that started a…
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June 16, 2023SFSU professor David Peña-Guzman was featured in the New York Times article, "Why Universities Should Be More Like Monasteri…
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March 02, 2023The College of Liberal & Creative Arts at San Francisco State University presents a panel discussion on ChatGPT, the new…
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February 16, 2023SFSU lecturer Jolie Goorjian contributed to a new book, Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition. "This collection of…
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February 14, 2023Minor in Video Game Studies This interdisciplinary program examines the many ways that video games intersect with our lives.…
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February 11, 2023First-year Comparative Literature M.A. student Taylor Nasim Stone presented her paper, "Sacred Snake Blood: The Dualism of S…
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February 10, 2023Professor David M. Peña-Guzmán's book, When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness, was named the Philosoph…
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February 08, 2023Associate Professor David M. Peña-Guzmán awarded PROSE Award for his book “When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Co…
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February 07, 2023Dr. Shirin Khanmohamadi was awarded a NEH grant to work on her second book, tentatively titled Splendorous Saracens: transla…
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February 02, 2023The University of Chicago Press’s Journal of Philosophy and Literary Criticism, Modern Philology, published Prof. George Leo…
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February 02, 2023SFSU lecturer Dr. Peter Richardson was recently received a contract offer from the University of California Press for his cu… -
December 15, 2022Dr. Rob Thomas completed their MA in Instructional Technologies at SFSU in December of 2022. Their final project was the cre…
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December 06, 2022Professor Emerita Carel Bertram participates in panel discussion for the Society for Armenian Studies in Denver Read the art…
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December 02, 2022Overthink co-hosts Ellie Anderson and David Peña-Guzmán interview Cristina Ruotolo as part of their series on the five sense…
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November 11, 2022Alumna Amber-Rose Reed was interviewed about being a film review columnist. Read the article.
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November 02, 2022Associate Professor of Humanities David Peña-Guzman, author of a book about animal dreams, explored the subject in a recent…
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May 11, 2021Shirin Khanmohamadi has an article on “Translating Islamic cultural capital and prestige in the Medieval Mediterranean and B…
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May 11, 2021We are pleased to announce that two Comparative & World Literature BA students have been awarded Marcus Undergraduate Re…
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May 11, 2021An article by Professor Emerita of Comparative and World Literature Ellen Peel was recently published in the journal Narrati…
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July 06, 2020The Comparative and World Literature Department at San Francisco State University would like to affirm our support of the pe…
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March 26, 2020Shirin Khanmohamadi will give an invited Response to the MAP/CARA Plenary Lecture at this year’s Medieval Academy of America…
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February 21, 2020Ellen Peel recently published an article on “Adoption, Tragedy, and the Failed Search for Origins in Frankenstein” in the jo…
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February 11, 2020Jolie Goorjian and Dan Curtis-Cummins (English) wrote a small on-line reader/textbook for the new Area E CWL 216 course “Tel…
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January 30, 2020Jolie Goorjian is presenting "Put the Humanity in the Humanities: Community Service Learning in Writing Classes" alongside h…
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June 12, 2019Two recent San Francisco State University graduates have been selected to further their education abroad as Fulbright Award…
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November 27, 2018The Department of Comparative & World Literature is pleased to announce the 2017/2018 officers for the Comparative Liter…
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June 01, 2018Congratulations to the 2017-2018 graduating Comparative & World Literature majors, minors, and M.A. students! To celebra…
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November 28, 2017We are sad to announce the passing of Professor Emeritus Thanasis Maskaleris. Thanasis (aka Thomas) Maskaleris was born in A…
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December 19, 2016The Department of Comparative & World LIterature is pleased to announce the 2016/2017 officers for the Comparative Liter…
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May 24, 2014For the latest updates on the Department of Comparative & World Literature, our faculty, students, alumnae/i and communi…