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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.
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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

First Friday Workshop with Emily Wilson on OEDIPUS

First Friday discussion on translation of Emily Wilson's OEDIPUS

From Across the Waters: Poetry of the Soviet Diaspora

A poet reading.

Classical Reception Series: India Halstead, Comparative Literature, on “Translating Cultures: Irish Colonialism, Greek Tragedy and the Monochrome Lens"

U Penn Classical Reception Research Seminars held in Cohen 337, 1:30 - 3 :00 p.m.:
soldier and woman

"I Am Like A Mad Woman Lost In The World": Passionate Mobility in the French Empire with Jennifer Boittin

A talk by Jennifer Boittin, Penn State U

News

Nancy Roane edits/curates series for Penn Program in Environmental Humanities

May 24, 2019

Nancy Roane, Ph.D.

Emily Wilson Sebald Lecture in London, UK

May 09, 2019

Emily Wilson Sebald Lecture

Raquel Salas-Rivera awarded prestigious Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship

May 01, 2019

Rachel Salas-Rivera is awarded Academy of American Poets Fellowship.
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