Program in Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies
Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Kimpel Hall 425
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
P 479-575-7580
E-mail: lrestr@uark.edu
Student Awards
CLCS DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP
Vanessa Guerrero Jiménez (2021)
Archives of Failure: The Impossibility of Representation in Four Latin
American Documentary Novels in the 21st Century / Archivos del fracaso: la
imposibilidad de la representación en cuatro novelas documentales latinoamericanas del
siglo XXI. Diss advisor, Prof. Violeta Lorenzo Feliciano
Zane Emilija Sarma (2020)
"Analysis of Reader Response to Representations of Masculinities in Young Adult Fiction." Diss. Advisor Dr. Susan Marren
Chenwei Wu (2020)
"We Chat over the Great Firewall of China--Overseas Chinese Motivations, Identity, and Community on WeChat" Diss. Advisor Dr. Stephanie Schulte
James J. Hudson Doctoral Award in the Humanities
Vanessa Guerero Jiménez (2021)
"Archives of Failure: The Impossibility of Representation in Four Latin
American Documentary Novels in the 21st Century / Archivos del fracaso: la
imposibilidad de la representación en cuatro novelas documentales latinoamericanas del
siglo XXI)
Diss. advisor, Prof. Violeta Lorenzo Feliciano
Samual McMillen (2020)
"Netflix's Luke Cage: Transmedia Storytelling and the Construction of Masculinity and Race." Diss. Advisor Dr. Robin Roberts
https://news.uark.edu/articles/53021/doctoral-student-in-comparative-literature-and-cultural-studies-receives-humanities-awardSamaher Aldhamen (2018)
"Domestic Workers in Modern Arabic Novels." Diss. Advisor Dr. Mohja Kahf
https://news.uark.edu/articles/42036/additional-fulbright-graduate-students-win-hudson-awards
GRADUATE CONGRESS RESEARCH AWARD 2020
CLCS 2019 DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP
Hamed Al Alamat
"The Jordanian Novel in Postmodern Context." Diss. Advisor Dr. Keith Booker
Sturgis International Fellowship
William Loder
UA Rome Center, Fall 2020
Ketaki Deshpande
Travel to India to conduct research on the Body Politics of Dancing Girls of Bollywood, Spring 2020
National Endowment for the Arts
Kaveh Bassiri
Translation from the Persian of a collection of poems by Iranian poet Roya Zarrin. (b. 1972)
https://news.uark.edu/articles/42662/two-university-of-arkansas-scholars-win-awards-from-the-national-endowment-for-the-artsCLCS 2018 DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP
Hashintha Jayasinghe
"Archive and Repertoire of the Asala Perahera Performance in Sri Lanka." Diss. Advisor Dr. Sidney Burris
Ghyath Manhel Alkinani
"Iraqi and American Literary Representations of the Iraq War." Diss. Advisor Dr. Mohja Kahf
https://fulbright.uark.edu/departments/world-languages/news-and-events/clcs-award.php
CLCS 2017 DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP
Delailah Clark
"The Nature of Influence: Fu’ād Rifqa’s Wilderness at the Intersection of Nation and Modernity." Diss. Advisor Adnan Haydar
Nicole Fares
"Sexual Citizenship: Queer Arab Writing Across Borders." Diss. Advisor Dr. Mohja Kahf