Faculty News and Annoucements

Prof. Nina Garsoian passed away on Sunday, Aug. 14 at the age of 99. She was the first Avedissian Chair in Armenian Studies in MELAC (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures) the former name of our department) and retired in 1993. She was born in Paris in 1923, and ten years

The René Wellek Prizes recognize outstanding books in the discipline of comparative literature. Submissions can pertain to any field of comparative literature, but they are expected to cross national, linguistic, geographic or disciplinary borders. https://www.acla.org/prize-awards/ren%C3%A9-wellek-prize

Professor Jennifer Wenzel’s book The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature is a Finalist for the 2022 Ecocriticism Book Prize awarded by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. 2022 ASLE Book Award Finalists Announced

Muhsin Al-Musawi has been awarded the 2022 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the category of Arabic Culture in Other Languages for The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is one of the Arab world’s leading prizes dedicated to Arabic literature and

Wael Hallaq delivered the Inaugural Sir Muhammad Iqbal Lecture at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, May 19, 2022. For more information click here: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/events/ethics-empire-and-wealth-ibn-khaldun-and-modern-state To view lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xmInYywYwo