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Events

Marquis Bey on "Becoming-Black-Woman with Deleuze; Radical Texts/gendering with Derrida

This talk is fundamentally a meditation on black and trans thought, where the two are to be understood as the radical

Marianne Hirsch on "Displaced Children: Photography and Postmemory in Liquid Time"

"Displaced Children: Photography and Postmemory in Liquid Time."

News

Hilah Kohen publishes article on Race in Slavic Studies

September 10, 2021

Hilah Kohen, Katherine M. H.

Rita Barnard writes on "Comparative Thinking in an Age of Corruption"

May 13, 2021

Rita Barnard has edited a volume of Safundi called Trump, Zuma, and the Grounds of US-South A

Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Graduate Student Awards

May 12, 2021

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