Congratulations to Caroline Seymour-Jorn, whose translation of Ibtihal Salem’s novel A Small Box in the Heart is now available through UWM’s digital commons. This fictional history of a woman’s life and experiences in Egypt in the decades leading up to the 2011 Arab …
Neorealism and the “New” Italy Compassion in the Development of Italian Identity Italian Professor Simonetta Milli Konewko’s latest book deals with compassion as a mechanism of building community in the postwar period for Italy. More information here A Small Box in …
“John Roberts was still completing his undergraduate degree when he became an award-making filmmaker. Roberts majored in Comparative Literature and graduated from UWM in 2013. In 2009, he was the jury-selected winner in the Cream City Cinema section at the …
Interdisciplinary scholars from UW-Milwaukee and across the globe came to campus for the Center for 21st Century Studies’ annual conference, Landbody: Indigeneity’s Radical Commitments, May 5-7 2016. Comparative Literature faculty members Caroline Seymour-Jorn and Kristin Pitt were moderating panels.
Thank you to all the participants in this year’s wonderful International Dessert Competition, and congratulations to all of the winners! Thanks also to all of the community businesses that donated an amazing array of prizes and also supported us by sending terrific volunteer …
Come hear our own Caroline Seymour-Jorn present her paper at the 2016 4W Summit on Women, Gender and Well-being, WELL-BEING & EMPOWERMENT:WISCONSIN & THE WORLD, at UW-Madison tomorrow, April 15. Her paper, co-written with Kristin Sziarto (Geography) and Anna Mansson McGinty …
Professor Caroline Seymour-Jorn of Comparative Literature was one of three UW-Milwaukee professors in Paris last week to discuss their research with the Muslim Milwaukee Project.
Professor Davies-Cordova studies the often painful Haitian past with her newest publication: “Ending the Haunting, Halting Whisperings of the Unspoken: Confronting the Haitian Past in the Literary Works of Agnant, Danticat, and Trouillot” in Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition : A …
Congratulations to Rebecca Schnirman and Hunter Resler, Comparative Literature majors and the 2016 recipients of the Roy Arthur Swanson Merit Scholarship in Comparative Literature! Well done, both of you–you make us proud!
Congratulations to Rebecca Schnirman and Hunter Resler, Comparative Literature majors and the 2016 recipients of the Roy Arthur Swanson Merit Scholarship in Comparative Literature! Well done, both of you–you make us proud!