Articles By: Jaclyn Robbin

This article is reprinted here with the permission of the UCLA Asia Pacific Center. The original article can be found at this link. The professorship is one of many recent…

On behalf of the Department of Comparative Literature and Department Co-Chairs, Professors Kathy Komar and Katherine King, we would like to extend our most effusive congratulations to the graduates of…

On the evening of Tuesday, January 14th, 2020, UCLA Comparative Literature alumnae, Dr. Maryam Wasif Khan, delivered a lecture entitled, “‘Ten Tongues and Ten Mouths’: Reading the Iliad in post-9/11…

On Wednesday, November 20th, the Department of Comparative Literature hosted a book launch for UCLA lecturer (and UCLA Department of Comparative Literature Ph.D. recipient) Dr. Susannah Rodriguez Drissi in Kaplan…

UCLA Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and English, Michael Rothberg’s latest book, “The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators,” received a glowing review in Times Higher Education and…

On October 15, 2019, Professor Shu-mei Shih (Departments of Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Culture, and Asian American Studies) delivered a lecture on “Comparative Literature in a Relational World” in…

From the Stanford University Press: “When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we…