To be awarded annually to a graduate student in any department at Brown University for an unpublished article-length essay on a topic that falls under the rubric of comparative literature defined broadly, which is ready for submission to a scholarly journal.  The comparatist perspective may be exemplified through cultural/linguistic juxtapositions, methodological crossovers, and/or interdisciplinary issues among other approaches.

April 17, 2013

Lecture by Ann Blair, Harvard University
Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown Street
5:30pm
Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and Early Modern Studies

February 15, 2013

Lecture by Professor Lydia H. Liu, Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
Brian Room, Maddock Alumni Center, 38 Brown Street
5:30pm
Sponsored by the Graduate Students of the Department of Comparative Literature

February 5, 2013

Lecture by Ursula K. Heise, Professor of English, UCLA
Petteruti Lounge, Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center, 75 Waterman Street
5:30pm
Sponsored by the Reinhard Kuhn Memorial Lectureship Fund and the Department of Comparative Literature