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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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Events

Center for Teaching and Learning

Center for Teaching and Learning Workshop: "Co-Teaching: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly"

A workshop with experienced Grad Student Co-Teachers: Corey Knudson, and Kaushik Ramu.
Announcing FIRST CUTS, our series of Work In Progress sessions with papers or other pieces of work shared by graduate students in Comparative Literature.

FIRST CUTS #1

Featuring Zain Mian, Nancy Roane, and Eugenia Ulanova
Center for Teaching and Learning

Center for Teaching and Learning Workshop: "Creative In-Class Exercises"

Speaker: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, CTL Graduate Fellow, Comparative Literature

News

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Emily Wilson’s Odyssey translation is short listed for the National Translation Award

July 16, 2018

Emily Wilson’s fresh take on this ancient Homeric epic is both scholarly exacting and a pleasure to read.
Raquel Salas Rivera

Comp Lit PH.D. student, Raquel Salas-Rivera, featured in WHYY's Radio Times.

April 27, 2018

Philadelphia’s new Poet Laureate 
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Joan DeJean's new book featured in OMNIA.

March 13, 2018

Joan DeJean, Trustee Professor of French, discusses her forthcoming book, The Queen’s Embroiderer: Lovers, Swindlers, Paris, and the First Stock Market Crisis.
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