Keavy Martin (PhD 2009) is shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize for the best book on Canadian Literature in English for her book on Inuit literary traditions Stories in a New Skin (Manitoba, 2012).
Professor Jill Ross was awarded a 12-month Jackman Fellowship to work on her project Comparative Medieval Rhetorics.
Professor Ann Komaromi has received a SSHRC Insight grant worth $123,341 to support her project Imagining the Underground: Looking at Soviet Dissidence Today
Sylwia Chrostowska (PhD 2007) has published Literature on Trial: The Emergence of Critical Discourse in Germany, Poland & Russia, 1700-1800, UT Press, 2012
Professor Eric Cazdyn has been awarded a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship for 2012-13 to pursue a project called "The Worldly Clinic".
Julija Šukys (PhD 2001) has just published Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Simaite with University of Nebraska Press.
Nadia Bozak (PhD 2008) has published The Cinematic Footprint: Lights, Camera, Natural Resources with Rutgers UP in 2011.
Karen Yaworski (PhD year 3) was awarded a Vanier Fellowship to pursue her studies on Contemporary Black Identities.
University of Alberta Press has published Recognition and Modes of Knowledge: Anagnorisis from Antiquity to Contemporary Theory edited by Teresa Russo, a collection of articles arising from the Comparative Literature graduate student conference of 2008.
Nizar F. Hermes (PhD 2009) published The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture: Ninth-Twelfth Century AD with Palgrave in 2012