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Van Pelt Stacks
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.
Van Pelt Library
Literature is news that stays news.
Henry Charles Lea Library
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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Hilal Chouman and Dr. Radwa El Barouni

Premodern Trans Symposium

Premodern Trans Studies; a symposium

April 22, 2025

Gregory  Goulding Cold War Genres

Book Launch and Discussion: Gregory Goulding, Cold War Genres

April 23, 2025

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Rosie Poku

Rosie Poku, PhD, Comparative Literature, receives Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student

April 08, 2025

Akhil P. Veetil

Akhil P. Veetil awarded the Andrea Mitchell Center Graduate Fellowship

April 03, 2025

Tova Tachau

Tova Tachau Comp Lit submatric is 2025 Dean's Scholar

March 19, 2025

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Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife
Black Post Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics
Tense Future
The Global Road Movie: Alternative Journeys Around the World

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Comparative Literature
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Deven Patel
Undergraduate Chair

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