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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

Marathon reading of Emily Wilson's translation of the ODYSSEY at Kelly Writers House

Marathon reading of the ODYSSEY
soldier and woman

"I Am Like A Mad Woman Lost In The World": Passionate Mobility in the French Empire with Jennifer Boittin

A talk by Jennifer Boittin, Penn State U

Classical Reception Series: India Halstead, Comparative Literature, on “Translating Cultures: Irish Colonialism, Greek Tragedy and the Monochrome Lens"

U Penn Classical Reception Research Seminars held in Cohen 337, 1:30 - 3 :00 p.m.:

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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