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Professor Ann Komaromi, has been chosen for a 12-month Jackman Humanities Institute Fellowship next year, 2025-2026. Ann Komaromi (Ph.D. 2001, University of Wisconsin-Madison) researches late Soviet culture, samizdat (underground publishing) and dissidence in the USSR. Komaromi’s articles and books theorize … Continue reading →

We are excited to announce our call for papers for our upcoming graduate student conference, “SIGNS OF EXIT,” hosted at the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto from March 14th-16th, 2025. Please click here for more info.

Sophie Feng, our Centre’s PhD student was recently awarded the prize for the best paper presented by a doctoral student at the conference entitled “1974-2024: Annie Ernaux’s Years: A Global Perspective” held in Edinburgh and St. Andrews Universities on Oct. … Continue reading →

This summer, ten students explored a beautiful island with a rich and fraught history through a four-week course, Puerto Rican Culture and Environment, through U of T’s Summer Abroad program.  “I absolutely adore Puerto Rico,” says Conrad James, an associate professor at the … Continue reading →

Jessica Copley has won this year’s ACLA Charles Bernheimer prize for best dissertation in Comparative Literature. This is a wonderful honour for Jessica as well as for her supervisor, Eric Cazdyn, and all who have worked with her. Her dissertation, “Forms … Continue reading →

Teresa Valentini, our PhD student, has been selected as the recipient of a two-year Faculty of Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. These fellowships are designed to offer outstanding recent doctoral students advanced training in their field of study.

Professor Ann Komaromi’s book, Soviet Samizdat, has received the CAS/Taylor & Francis Book Prize for 2023 . Read more The Canadian Association of Slavists’ Taylor & Francis Book Prize was established in 2014 and is sponsored by Taylor & Francis Publishers.  It … Continue reading →

Rebecca Comay appointed an honorary doctor at the University of Copenhagen. At the University of Copenhagen’s traditional annual celebration on 10 November 2023, Professor Rebecca Comay from the University of Toronto and Professor Heinrich Assel from Greifswald Universität were appointed … Continue reading →

Atsuko Sakaki recently published her book entitled “Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory.” For more information, please follow this link.