University of Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences
Comparative Literature & Literary Theory

Home

Van Pelt Stacks
We study literary and cultural representation across linguistic and national boundaries.
Manuscript
We approach literary and cultural study with a keen awareness of critical theory.
Van Pelt Library
Literature is news that stays news.
Henry Charles Lea Library
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
Rare Book
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
Manuscript
Our lives are all different and yet the same.
Previous Next

News

Michael Shea's translation of Argentine author to be published.

October 12, 2018

Michael Shea's translation of Liliane Ponce's work is to be released later this year.

Deanna Cachoian-Schanz's book review in the Armenian Review

October 03, 2018

Deanna Cachoian-Schanz published her first book review,
Odyssey book cover

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.
Copyright © 2018 The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania