Saudamini Deo

Jadavpur University

The Iliad and the Ramayana: Narrative Techniques

El Habib Louai

Ibn Zohr University Faculty of Letters

Jay Bennett

University of Colorado at Boulder

Jauss, Lacan, and the Dude

Jason Burton

The University of Georgia

Pessimism Becketts Optimism: Audience and Optimism in Endgame

Megan Hong

The University of Georgia

Language as Survival in The Land of Green Plums

Dr. Lioba Moshi and Dr. Akinloye Ojo were recently interviewed on WUGA in their new control room.  You can find pictures from their time with Ele Ellis on the WUGA Facebook page.

The university will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its African Studies Institute with two weeks of events starting November 1st.  Events will include a conference along with cultural and family events.  

Read about the celebration in Columns to learn more about the events that are planned.

Comparative Literature graduate teaching assistant, Oksana Lutsyshyna has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship to Poland in Comparative Literature.

Lutsyshyna is one of a select group of U.S. citizens who will travel abroad for the 2012-2013 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. 

Dr. Akinloye Ojo, faculty member of Comparative Literature and host of WUGA radio show African Perspectives, was named the director of the African Studies Institute in October of 2011.  Find out more about Dr. Ojo and his work with the university by visiting this article from UGA Columns.

Leslie Harkema, an alumna of the comparative literature program at UGA, wrote to update us with some exciting career news.  She is curently in Spain on a Fulbright research grant, completing the dissertation for her PhD in Hispanic Language and Literatures at Boston University.  She also recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Spanish at Yale University for the coming fall.  She was very excited about her opportunity to join the faculty at Yale and wanted to share her news with all of us in Athens.