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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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De Leon Hostile Terrain 94 Installation. Call for Volunteers.

Hostile Terrain 94

Visual Poetry in India and Europe

with Professor Jurgen Hanneder

News

COML has INSTAGRAM

September 13, 2019

COML has INSTRAGRAM

New book of poetry by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

August 19, 2019

New publication of poetry

Emily Wilson talks to the MLA about public scholarship

August 06, 2019

Emily Wilson talks to the MLA
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