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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

Matthew Harrington: Revolutions in Translation: History, Politics, Articulation

Matthew Harrington

Wolf Humanities Center Annual Symposium, Forging Kinships

Forging Kinships

Book Talk: Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women’s Poetry with Zohar Weiman-Kelman

A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry

News

Deanna Cachoian-Schanz's translation of HOW I WRITE AND HOW I WOULD LIKE TO WRITE, from Shushan Avagyan's BOOK, UNTITLED published in ASYMPTOTE

January 17, 2020

Translation published in Asymptote

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, 2019 National Jewish Book Award finalist

January 15, 2020

2019 National Jewish Book Award finalist

Poem-a-Day: independence day (puerto rico) by Raquel Salas Rivera

January 15, 2020

Poem-a-day
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