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Research

The Department of Comparative Literature's curriculum encompasses a dynamic range of research conducted through several processes such as:

  • CPLT 495RW Honors Thesis
  • colloquiums
  • study abroad
  • internships
  • CPLT 497R Supervised Reading
  • symposiums
  • conferences
  • publications, etc.

Examples of some research done by our undergraduates:

  • Presented "Consumption and Autonomy: A Historiographical Analysis of Scholarship in Late Soviet Consumerism" for the Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures Research Symposium (2025)
  • Completed Honors Thesis titled "To Eat or Not to Eat: The Violence of Survival and the Ethics of Consumption" with support from the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry's Undergraduate Honors Fellowship

  • Received highest honors for thesis titled "Unresolved Origins: Vietnamese Identity Through the Lens of Poetry and Displacement" (2025)

  • Received highest honors for thesis titled "Tatyana Voltskaya and the Desertion of Empire" (2025)
  • Received Critical Language Scholarship from the US State Department to study and travel in Latvia and Russia in (Su 2025)

  • Translated Oriza Hirata's stage play "Night on the Galactic Railroad" for 2024 Toyooka Theatre Festival (2025)

  • Selected to present "Speak, Beloved: A Study of Trauma Narratives in Literature Now, and Onwards" at Johns Hopkins University's first annual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium (SP 20)
  • Selected to present "Speak, Beloved: A Study of Trauma Narratives in Literature Now, and Onwards" at the Engaged Scholar Symposium, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley (SP 20)
  • Association of Research Libraries Fellowship for Digital & Inclusive Excellence (FA 19)
  • Published in The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human: Tales From Many Muslim Worlds (Penguin Anthology) - Creative nonfiction piece on the trauma of war rape during the Bangladeshi liberation war from Dr. Angelika Bammer's CPLT/ENG 389 course from Spring 2018 (FA 19)
  • IDEAS Fellow (19-20)
  • Presented poster in SURE Symposium entitled "Speak, Beloved: A Study of Trauma Narratives in Literature Now, and Onwards" (SU 19)

  • Selected to present "CONSTITUENT: A Multiracial Exploration of the Academic Hivemind" at Johns Hopkins University's first annual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium (SP 20)

  • Honors Thesis with Philosophy (summa cum laude): “Gender as a Capitalist Category: Structural Separation, Forms of Domination, and The Organization of Violence"

  • Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow (22-24) | Field/Specialization: Early modern studies; Andalusi cultures; architecture and mysticism theater and the law; early modern science; Caribbean literature and culture; and performance theory.

  • Honors Thesis with Creative Writing: "A Humble Warning to the Residents of Ol Kalou" (SP 21)
  • Presented "Posthuman Postcolonialism" in the Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium (SP 20)
  • Participated in the Research Partners Program (RPP) (19-20)
  • Published "On Speech and Silence in Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky" in the Emory University Journal of Asian Studies (SP 20)
  • Published "The Aesthetics of Suffering" in the Emory University Journal of Asian Studies (SP 19)

  • REALC Colloquium ("Magical Realism as a Transcendent Force in Bulgakov, Aksyonov, and Bulgakov," April 8, 2022
    • Published in the Emory Journal of Asian Studies (May 2022)

  • Honors Thesis (summa cum laude): "Reading the Hieroglyph: The Em Dash in Action"
  • Emory Undergraduate Fellowship: James Weldon Johnson Institute for the study of Race and Difference (Fall 2021- Spring 2022)
  • Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow (20-22) | Field/Specialization: Afropessimism, modern poetry and poetics, the question of language, and American literature from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement
    • Presentation:Reading the Hieroglyph: The Em Dash in Action, MMUF Spring Research Conference (SP 22)
  • Emory Presentation:Black Beings, Corrupted Tongues: Encountering Language in the Aftermath of Slavery, South Eastern Regional Conference Mellon Mays Conference (SERC) (FA 22)
  • Comp Lit Undergraduate Colloquium: Presented "Analytics of the Hieroglyph; Or the;" (4/8/2022)
  • Yale Undergraduate Summer Research Fellow, SURF Program (SU 21)
  • Presented and published:Black Beings, Corrupted Tongues: Encountering Language in the Aftermath of Slavery at the Leadership Alliance National Symposium (July 19-31, 2021)

  • Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow (21-23) | Field/Specialization: Somewhere in the continuum of scholarship at the intersection of black (anti-humanist) aesthetic theory and Marxian critical theory
  • SIRE Scholar (21-22)

  • REALC Undergraduate Student Research Symposium: Presented "Void and Construction" (4/7/2022)
  • Comp Lit Undergraduate Colloquium: Presented "Reading's Fourth Dimension" (4/8/2022)
  • Selected to present at the 2022 American Comparative Literature Conference ("Ambivalent Virtues: Soviet Literature, Moral Formation, and Ethics in Crisis") (June 16, 2022)
  • Published a paper in the Capstone Journal of Law and Public Policy ("When the Student Becomes the Teacher: Compensation, Prestige, and Teacher Quality in the U.S. Education System") (May 2022)

  • Comp Lit Undergraduate Colloquium: Presented "Volcanic Fluidity: A Poetic Wish" (4/8/2022)
  • French Undergraduate Colloquium: Presented "Les colonnes, les arbres, et les femmes" (4/13/2022)