Fixers Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature Zrinka Stahuljak A new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures. Description: In this…
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Comp Lit alumna Carribean Fragoza earns prestigious creative writing award
Published: January 19, 2024Reposted from UCLA Humanities website Joe Mandrake | January 18, 2024 Tucked away in the San Gabriel Valley, South El Monte is not a place often featured in literary fiction. But…
Read MoreIn memoriam: Kirstie McClure, 72, brought interdisciplinary approach to study of political history
Published: January 5, 2024Reposted from UCLA Newsroom Sean Brenner | January 4, 2024 Kirstie McClure, a UCLA professor of political science, English and comparative literature, died Dec. 21, 2023, at the age of 72….
Read MoreZrinka Stahuljak and Shannon Speed receive Mellon grant
Published: August 25, 2023Reposted from UCLA Newsroom Jonathan Riggs | July 24, 2023 Professors Zrinka Stahuljak and Shannon Speed received a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to support a project called…
Read MoreExploring the fraught nature of memory and comparison | Michael Rothberg, a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, examines how people and societies recall traumatic historical events
Published: June 23, 2023Reposted from UCLA Newsroom Jonathan Riggs | June 22, 2023 A living story told from innumerable perspectives, history is largely shaped by the way it is remembered. But when traditionally…
Read MoreAmitav Ghosh delivers UCLA’s Edward W. Said Lecture
Published: May 22, 2023Reposted from UCLA Newsroom Jonathan Riggs | May 19, 2023 Focusing on his 2021 nonfiction work “The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis,” Amitav Ghosh gave an impassioned…
Read MoreCongratulations to Mariam Rahmani & Benjamin Ratskoff!
Published: May 15, 2023The Department would like to congratulate Mariam Rahmani and Benjamin Ratskoff on their respective new teaching positions! Benjamin will be joining Hebrew Union College in a tenure-track position, and Mariam…
Read MoreProfessor and Chair Michael Rothberg Among Recipients of 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships
Published: April 10, 2023From UCLA Newsroom Five UCLA professors are among the 171 Guggenheim Fellows for 2023. Presented annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the fellowships recognize the recipients’…
Read MoreDean of Humanities Announces New Co-Directors of Program in Experimental Critical Theory
Published: January 27, 2022July 7, 2021 Dear colleagues: I am pleased to announce that I have invited Professors Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature, European Languages and Transcultural Studies) and Giulia Sissa (Political Science, Classics) to head the Experimental Critical…
Read MoreA Message from the Chair
Published: September 16, 2021Welcome to the Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA! Housed within the top public research university in the country, UCLA’s Comparative Literature department has served for more than fifty years…
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