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Penguin Classics to publish Liesl Yamaguchi's translation of Unknown Soldiers
Feb. 17, 2015

Penguin Classics to publish Liesl Yamaguchi's translation of Unknown Soldiers.

Liesl Yamaguchi, PhD candidate, is currently Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature

COM Major Yessica Martinez Co-winner of the Pyne Prize
Feb. 12, 2015

Princeton senior and Department of Comparative Literature major Yessica Martinez has been named a co-winner, along with Jake Robertson, of the University's 2015 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate. See…

Cate Reilly Wins Jacobus Fellowship
Feb. 6, 2015

Reilly, a Ph.D, candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature, holds a bachelor's degree from Yale University. She joined Princeton's graduate program in 2010. 

Her dissertation, "Naming Disorder: Psychiatry, Diagnosis and Literary Modernism in Russia and Germany, 1880-1929,"…

David Risher's Worldreader Brings Free Books to Kids
Jan. 6, 2015

Through his San Francisco non-profit, David Risher '87, Princeton comparative literature major, former Amazon executive, and co-founder and president of Worldreader, gives away millions of e-books to kids around the world. See the latest article in the…

Michael Wood to Chair Man Booker Prize Panel for 2015 Award
Dec. 16, 2014

Michael Wood, Princeton professor in English and Comparative Literature, is to chair next year’s judges of the Man Booker Prize, a prestigious award given to the best original novel written in the English language. Prof. Wood will be joined by poet John Burnside, two literary editors and novelist and biographer Frances Osborne. Prof. Wood…

Jeffrey T. Lawrence Wins the IAS Dissertation Prize
Dec. 11, 2014

Jeffrey T. Lawrence (2014) has won the International Association for Inter-American Studies Award for the best master’s thesis or dissertation in Inter-American Studies completed in 2013 or 2014. Dr. Lawrence's dissertation is titled The Experiencer and the Reader in…

Lital Levy's Poetic Trespass wins the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Prize for Literature
Dec. 10, 2014

Lital Levy's Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine is the 2014 co-winner of the Association for Jewish Studies Jordan Schnitzer Book…