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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 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

Spinoza after Marx. Exploring the encounter between the thought of Spinoza and Marx, posing the question of how to conceive the two bodies of thought as a joint project.

Spinoza after Marx.

2021 Penn Arts & Sciences Graduate Division Graduation Celebration

Please join Dean Fluharty and Associate Dean Wenger for the prerecorded 2021 GRADUAT

Transcreations: The Intersections and Intricacies of Translation and Creative Writing with Achy Obejas and Adrienne Perry

Transcreations

MARIA KUZNETSOVA AND THE CHEBURASHKA COLLECTIVE

Please join us Thursday, April 22, at 8:00 PM on Zoom, for MARIA KUZNETSOVA AND TH

News

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

A.VERONIQUE CHARLES

Zain R. Mian receives Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student

April 06, 2021

Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student
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