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We approach literary and cultural study with a keen awareness of critical theory.
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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Our lives are all different and yet the same.
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Past Events

Book Launch Ponce de Leon

Book Launch: Domenico Losurdo’s Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn

Please join us for a book launch on Friday September 20th from 3-5 pm.  
Armen Davoudian & Fatemeh Shams

A reading and conversation with ARMEN DAVOUDIAN AND FATEMEH SHAMS

Julia Pelosi-Thorpe

Julie Pelosi-Thorpe on Lil Nas X's Montero and Dante's Divine Comedy

Penn Libraries presents Julia Pelosi-Thorpe.
Maria Enriquez

A conversation with award-winning Argentine writer and journalist Mariana Enríquez

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to invite you to join us in welcoming the award-winning

News

Samantha Pious

Samantha Pious's début poetry collection, Sappho Is Dead, published by Headmistress Press.

May 08, 2024

COMP Lit students honored as Dean's Scholars for 2024

May 03, 2024

Comparative Literature Undergraduates Inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa 2024

April 09, 2024

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