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We approach literary and cultural study with a keen awareness of critical theory.
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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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Events

Wendy Steiner

Wendy Steiner and Heather Love on The Beauty of Choice

ITZEL CORONA AGUILAR

ITZEL CORONA AGUILAR IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVID KAZANJIAN ON EMBODYING THE SACRED: UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANT POETICS

Kathryn Hellerstein

Kathryn Hellerstein: Translating Yiddish Women Poets

KEYWORDS

Forum on Keywords

News

A Book, Untitled

PhD Candidate Deanna Cachoian-Schanz Wins Modernist Studies Association Translation Award

October 30, 2024

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

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