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We study literary and cultural representation across linguistic and national boundaries.
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We approach literary and cultural study with a keen awareness of critical theory.
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Literature is news that stays news.
Henry Charles Lea Library
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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Conversation and reading with Madeline Miller and Emily Wilson

A virtual night of conversation and reading.

Re-imagining the Classics with Madeline Miller and Emily Wilson

Re-imagining the Classics

News

Melissa E. Sanchez and Corinne Low’s Open Hearts Initiative wins 2020 Compassionate Community Award

October 01, 2020

Melissa Sanchez and Corrine Low

Bryan Norton to participate in new international research network on romanticism at Goethe Universität

September 29, 2020

Bryan Norton to participate in new international research network on romanticism.

Emily Wilson reads from her translation of the Odyssey with a twist

May 15, 2020

Emily Wilson reads from her translation.
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