News And Events

Prof. Amy Motlagh Discusses the Iranian Struggle for Navigating Morality and Dignity in Restrictive Cultural and Social Systems

5/7: Europe’s First Persian Students: A Story of Intercultural Understanding

Thursday May 7th
Student Community Center - Multi Purpose Room
5:30 - Reception
6:00 - Lecture

Congratulations to Ben Fong!

Sheldon Lu co-edits and publishes new volume, "Comparative Literature and China: Methods and Perspectives” (Brill 2026)

Ph.D. Alumna Tianya Hua honored by the ACLA!

3/18 Book talk by Prof. Amy Motlagh "Colorblind: Racial Thinking and Cultural Production in Modern Iran and the Diaspora"

Colorblind: Racial Thinking and Cultural Production in Modern Iran and the Diaspora

3/21: Celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year!

2/19: Translation Studies Symposium

Fri, Feb 27, 2026
12:00pm - 6:00pm
Sproul 912

Event (11/13): Mermaids and Water Spirits

Event (11/6): Sven-Erik Rose at the Avid Reader

Fall 2025 Department News

UC Davis in Top 10 of Nation’s Public Universities for 5th Year

Professor Sven-Erik Rose Publishes New Book, Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos

Celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month

Event (6/5) Liminality, Superpositionality and the Sublime: The Potential of the Impossible Woman in Marya Zhukova’s “Medal’on”

Event (5/8) Henry James Writes New York: Identity, Masculinity, Authorship

Event (5/15) From Slaves and Fairies to Kind and Unkind Girls: How the Fairy Tale Became White

Event (3/5) Chat With An Editor

Event (2/10) The Journey of Love & The Challenges of the "Self" - Rumi's View in Context

Doctoral Candidate Laura Catterson Featured in University of Washington's Iraj Khademi Residency

Event (12/2) Jews and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Shared Spaces, Shared Histories - A Conversation Between Two Historians

Event (11/13) Movie Night: Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

UC Davis Ranked No. 3 Public University for Setting Grads Up for Financial Success

Watch: Professor Emeriti Gail Finney Interviewed for Emeriti Association's Video Records Project

Celebrating our 2023-2024 Graduates and other Department News!

COM Graduate Student Laura Catterson has been Accepted to the Iraj Khademi Residency Program

New Graduate Student Publication - Ben Fong's "Learning to Speak Chinese: Defining the Sino-American Film Paradigm"

New Faculty Publication - Professor Stefan Uhlig's "Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography: The Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century"

Michiko Suzuki’s new book, Reading the Kimono in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature and Film

Something to celebrate!