Julie Anderson, a candidate for the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, is writing a dissertation entitled From Orality to Writing: Transformations of the Lyric Voice in Ancient Greek, Roman, and Chinese Poetry. The dissertation explores the ways that different forms of literacy–-in specific, alphabetic and character-based literacy– influence the development of the lyric voice; the study is intended to contribute a more nuanced and culturally sensitive understanding of the transition from orality to literacy, both within the field of literature and on the broader planes of cultural, sociological, and linguistic studies.