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 Machado 21: A Centennial CelebrationWhen Machado de Assis died in September 29th, 1908 in Rio de Janeiro – a town he never left – he was an acclaimed writer. Being at that time the first president of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since its initiation, in 1897, Machado left nine novels, some of them considered masterpieces of the Portuguese language. Machado de Assis was also a poet, a playwright, a journalist and the translator of many French and English classics including the works of Flaubert and Shakespeare. Worldwide there are literary critics dedicated to studying his work. They emphasize the unique character of his writing, which went beyond the literary models of his day and truly crossed local borders in dealing with universal themes. Harold Bloom has called him one of the 100 geniuses of literature and placed him alongside writers such as Dante, Shakespeare and Cervantes. Michael Wood affirms that Machado was undoubtedly a “master”. This Fall 2008 semester The Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages and The Luso-Brazilian Studies Group will be holding a series of activities in homage to this important Brazilian writer, together with The Americas Society, The Brazilian Consulate in New York, The Lincoln Center, The Brazilian Endowment for the Arts, Academia Brasileira de Letras and Yale University. Read more. . . New agreements with foreign institutionsThe Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages has signed several agreements with institutions overseas that will provide new seminars on specific topics of interest:Xunta de Galicia: Annual seminar on Galician Literature and Language. University of Buenos Aires: Annual seminar on Argentinian Literature and Culture. Institut Ramon Llull: Annual seminar on Catalonian Studies. Instituto Camões: Annual seminar on Portuguese Literature. Junta de Castilla y León / Fundación Siglo para las Artes: a. Miguel Delibes Chair.
Annual seminar on contemporary Spanish Literature at the
University of Valladolid. Each year, two of our students are
selected to take part in this seminar in Spain.
b. Annual Coloquium on Spanish and Latin-American Literature at the Graduate Center. c. Siglo XXI Journal, published by the Miguel Delibes Chair. Professor William P. Childers Wins Prestigious MLA AwardBrooklyn College and Graduate Center Professor William P. Childers has become the first CUNY professor to win the Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs prize for his book Transnational Cervantes (University of Toronto Press, 2006). The award, presented by one of the most prestigious scholarly associations in academe, goes to an outstanding book published in English in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures. Read more...The Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian
Literatures and Languages ranked among the best of the country
The Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures
and
Languages ranked third in the country for the scholarly achievement of
its faculty, according to the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index.
Further, in the 'broad' category of humanities, the Graduate Center was
fourth after Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. The rankings take into
account scholarly publications, honors and awards and grants. The
research was conducted by Academic Analytics and an overview of the
findings were reported in the January 12, 2007 issue of the Chronicle
of Higher Education. Read more... |
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