Smaran Dayal Elected to Board of ACLA
Congratulations to Smaran Dayal of NYU Comparative Literature on his election to the Board the American Comparative Literature Association as Graduate Student Representative! His term will begin on April 12th.
I am excited and honoured to be joining the Board of the largest professional organization of comparatists in the United States. There are a few issues that are extremely close to my heart and for which I plan to advocate on the ACLA Board: the continuing 'decolonization' (or deprovincialization) of research and teaching, the diversification of graduate admissions and faculty hiring in CompLit departments, and—most of all—the stability and adequacy of PhD funding in CompLit programs. Over the course of my PhD, I have also become ever more convinced of the necessity of non-exploitative and non-hierarchical workplace relations between faculty and graduate students—and amongst grads ourselves. My email inbox is open to all CompLit grads in this country, since it is they who elected me to this post!