The Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies Department is proud to announce three recipients of the Outstanding Teacher Assistant Award. These recipients are Zhiwen Hu, Amanda Tipton, and Subhraleena Deka.

The Center for Teaching and Learning administers this award, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Instruction, and it recognizes teaching assistants who demonstrate superior teaching skills while serving in the classroom. Congratulations to Zhiwen, Amanda and Subhraleena.

The Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies extends support to members of our student body and community who have been impacted by the recent wave of hate crimes against people of Asian descent in the United States. Over the past year, we have seen how the country's long history of xenophobia against Asian and Asian Americans was given new guise under false perceptions and rhetoric regarding the COVID-19 pandemic as well as how racism could easily become coupled with misogyny and classism.

The Comparative Literature Department is pleased to announce that Benjamin A. Houser has been selected to receive the 2021 Presidential Award of Excellence. This award is given to undergraduate students in their final year of study who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, strong extracurricular involvement, and/or service to and involvement in their respective school or college. Students selected for this award exemplify the best of UGA's undergraduate student body.

Congratulations to Benjamin Houser!!! 

The UGA Career Center surveys students, asking to identify faculty and staff who have made a significant, positive impact on their career-making process. As a result, four Comparative Literature individuals have been recognized by Class of 2020 graduates. These faculty/staff include Dr. Mi-Ryong Shim, Dr. Hyangsoon Yi, Dr. Karin Myhre and Mr. Willy C. Du. It is with great pleasure that we take this opportunity to acknowledge the impact these individuals have had on the career success of UGA students.

We are delighted to announce that our recent PhD graduate Sabnam Ghosh has just joined Kennesaw State University as a Limited Term Assistant Professor in English. Sabnam graduated with her PhD in Comparative Literature from University of Georgia in May 2020. Along with her major degree she also completed a certificate in Women's Studies, Portfolio in Service Learning and Portfolio in Teaching at UGA.

Congratulations to Gabriel Ayoola, a PhD graduate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in Comparative Literature, who has accepted a position at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He will be responsible for building their Yoruba Program and teaching African Literature and other content courses.

Submitted by Andrew Simmons 

“Nouning, March 2020”

by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor

Comments by Wei-Yi Lee

https://districtlit.com/2020/05/21/cahnmann-taylor/

N. The process of turning verbs and adjectives into nouns, also called nominalization.

What an awesome

Performed by Amanda Tipton