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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

Zain Mian, “A Tale of Two Cities: Urdu, English, and the Struggle to Represent Lahore in World Literature.” 
Center for Teaching and Learning

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

This university-wide workshop requires advance registra

News

Emily Wilson

The First Woman to Translate the 'Odyssey' into English

November 01, 2017

The classicist Emily Wilson has given Homer’s epic a radically contemporary voice.
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For Love or Money: Untangling the Story of a Family's Rise and Fall

March 13, 2018

Joan DeJean, Trustee Professor of French, discusses her forthcoming book, The Queen’s Embroid
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