Still Life
University Park Airport Emergency Response Exercise
Commencement across Penn State: Spring 2012
Spring commencement 2012 under way
Penn State, Moroccan students problem-solve together
Finals Week Spring Semester 2012
Painting the Lines at Beaver Stadium
Did They Get It Right? - RedTails
Iconic Penn State elm taken down over spring break 2012
We ... are Penn State (December 19, 2011)
Disease stricken matching elm tree slated for removal
Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone
Tuition scholarships are available for high school and college students, including Penn State students from campuses across the commonwealth, to learn Arabic, through a $105,000 federal grant received by the Penn State Department of Comparative Literature, in the School of Languages and Literatures. Students can earn Penn State credits in a special four-week intensive Arabic course, called the STARTALK Arabic Academy, to be offered June 11 - July 6 on the University Park campus. In addition, scholarships from other sources also are available for high school students who wish to study Turkish, Chinese, or Russian through this summer's Language Institute. These scholarships cover up to 90 percent of in-state tuition. Further information can be found at http://www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/language-institute/index.html. (more)
Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, Marie Curie, Helen Keller, Margaret Thatcher. When thinking of strong females who changed history, perhaps one of these names comes to mind. What about powerful women in literature? Any of Jane Austen's female characters, Shakespeare's Juliet or Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne might come to mind. But Sydney Aboul-Hosn, a senior lecturer comparative literature at Penn State, sees strength in female characters oftentimes overlooked. (more)
At 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 20, Nancy Condee, associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh, will present "Strategic Amnesia: Postcolonial Studies and the Second World," in Room 102 of the Kern Building on Penn State's University Park campus. (more)
At 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 13, German Campos-Munoz, graduate student in the Department of Comparative Literature will present "Parallel Lives: Bolivar and the Classical Poetics of the Revolution," in room 102 of the Kern Building on Penn State's University Park campus. (more)
At 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 6, Vincent Bruyere, assistant professor of French and Francophone studies, will present "Literary History in the Posthistorical University: The Division of Francophone Studies," in room 102 of the Kern Building on Penn State's University Park campus. (more)
The American Council of Learned Societies has recognized four Penn Staters -- two faculty members who have received grants and two recent doctoral student graduates who will serve two-year academic fellowships -- among a total of 380 U.S.-based and international scholars honored in 2010. (more)
At 12:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9, several speakers will speak in the presentation "Who Owns African Literature: A Roundtable Discussion" in room 102 of the Kern Building on Penn State's University Park campus. Participating in the roundtable discussion will be Helon Habila, assistant professor of English at George Mason University; Binyavanga Wainaina, director of the Achebe Center at Bard College; and Patricia Jebbeh Wesley, assistant professor of English at Penn State Altoona. The moderator will be Gabeba Baderoon, assistant professor of women's studies and African and African-American studies at Penn State. (more)
At 12:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 26, Su Fang Ng, associate professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, will present "Dutch Wars, Global Poems: Dryden's Annus Mirabilis (1666) and Amin's Syair Perang Mengkasar (1670)" in room 102 of the Kern Building on Penn State's University Park campus. (more)
At 12:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 28, Charlotte Eubanks, assistant professor of comparative literature and Asian studies, will present "Turning the Wheel of Dharma: Buddhist Book History" in room 402 of the Burrowes Building on Penn State's University Park campus. (more)
At 12:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 21, Rudolf Kuenzli, professor of comparative literature at the University of Iowa will present "Interventionist Collage: From Dada to the Present" in room 102 of the Kern Building on Penn State's University Park campus. (more)
