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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

Circle with CTL

CTL Workshop with Professor Emily Wilson, COML & CLST

Teaching in Translation with Professor Emily Wilson

Ariel Resnikoff's mock job talk

Ari's mock job talk next week

Raquel Salas Rivera has poetry reading at Penn Book Center

Poetry reading and discussion.

Ling Zhang, English Dept. job candidate

Ling Zhang, candidate to give talk

News

Charles Bernstein wins major literary prize

January 29, 2019

Charles Bernstein wins major poetry prize.

Zain R. Mian publishes essay on Pakistani literature

January 24, 2019

Zain's essay, "Willing representatives: Mohsin Hamid and Pakistani literature abroad," has sparke

INTENSIVE: A Philosophy and Theory Reading Group

December 05, 2018

Intensive, a collaborative reading enterprise.
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