USC Comparative Literature

Congratulations to our graduates! This is your day--ENJOY!

See you at our reception today and keep in touch!



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Sharing on behalf of our friends at the cause any help with papers with donuts as incentive are surely welcome in our book!

Meet our faculty, staff and students this Monday! Learn about what we’re doing for the spring semester. 🍦

*this Friday* hear recent work by our C**T faculty member Mlondi Zondi in-person or via Zoom. RSVP 🔗in bio

Welcome back and good luck this week!🍀

Join us for our honors showcase next Thursday! RSVP 🔗 in bio.

Join us next week to celebrate the French translation of Viet Nguyen's 2021 novel "The Committed!"

In this follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Sympathizer," we follow Nguyen's narrator to Paris in the 1980s. This conversation with the author, led by Professors Lydie Moudileno (French, Comparative Literature, and American Studies and Ethnicity) and Panivong Norindr (French and Comparative Literature), will be the opportunity to discuss both this new transnational context as well as issues of migration, language, and translation.

Hope to see you there!

In the news: Robert Downey Jr. will produce and co-star in adaptation of Professor Viet Nguyen’s ‘The Sympathizer’ for HBO And A24. Congratulations!

Robert Downey Jr. To Co-Star In Drama Series Adaptation Of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Sympathizer’ For HBO And A24; Park Chan-wook Directing EXCLUSIVE: After officially hanging up his Iron Man suit in Avengers: Endgame, Robert Downey Jr. looks to have found his next big role to tackle while also marking his first starring venture into t…

Extending a warm welcome to these 4 incredible Black Studies Scholars at USC! 🎉

Today we say farewell to our USC 2021 C**T graduates! We have been honored to watch you all grow as academics over the course of undergrad and wish everyone the very best. Have a wonderful summer, and don't forget to keep in touch!

We are proud to announce the recipients of our Comparative Literature Prize and Welch Essay Prize. The Comp Lit Prize is awarded to an outstanding graduating senior, based on GPA. The Welch Essay Prize is awarded to a graduating senior who has written an exemplary essay in in a 300- or 400-level course during the 2020-2021 academic year.

We had a record number of applications for this year’s essay contest, so many so that the committee decided to recognize Bindhu Swaminathan as the awardee, with runners-up Reese Armstrong and Sydney Rivera-Prince. Bindhu’s essay was from C**T 335: Decadence and Modernity; in it, she analyzed Edgar Allan Poe’s essay The Man of the Crowd under the consideration of q***r bodies through q***r subversion and resistance.

Reese’s essay, a part of his senior honors thesis, discussed plant horror and science fiction, using VanderMeer’s novel Annihilation and the film Midsommar to ground his analysis.
Sydney’s work was a part of C**T 475, Politics and the Novel, and explored different times of colonialization and Afrofuturism through N.K. Jeminin’s The Fifith Season.

We awarded the Comparative Literature Prize to two graduating seniors—Elisa McAtee and Alexander Polt-Gifford. They, and all our students this year have made outstanding intellectual contributions to our community and we are proud of all their accomplishments during this extraordinary year.