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Congratulations to Drs. Reem Taha and Marcel Strobel for successfully completing their PhDs in 2025

Reem Taha successfully defended her dissertation, “Of Here and Everywhere: The Poetics of Exile and Race in the Early Modern Mediterranean,” which was directed by Professor Bernadette Andrea (English). Marcel Strobel successfully defended his PhD dissertation, “Queering the Archive: Transgender Identities in Weimar and Nazi Germany,” which was chaired by Professor Patrice Petro (Film and Media Studies).

UCSB emerita Suzanne Jill Levine publishes Unfaithful: A Translator’s Memoir

In this witty and incisive memoir, Suzanne Jill Levine – winner of the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation – establishes a new way of writing about a translator's life. In Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir, Levine interweaves her personal history and translation history in an important period.

Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship Winner: Solaire Denaud

Solaire Denaud, French and Haitian Ph.D. student in the Comparative Literature Program, has been awarded the Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship for the year 2025-2026!

Professor Lawrence Venuti Unpacks The Translator’s Dilemma: Thursday 5/1

UCSB Dept. of CompLit hosts Professor Lawrence Venuti on campus this Thursday 5/1—don’t miss his talk and discussion!

UCSB Comparative Literature's Arnold Faculty Fellows

Congratulations to Comparative Literature Affiliates Sowon Park and Sara Pankenier Weld, who have been selected as the first Arnhold Faculty Fellows, following the landmark gift by John ‘75 and Jody Arnhold to establish the Arnhold Arts and Humanities Commons.