Reposted from UCLA Humanities website Jennifer Noji/UCLA The three-day conference featured talks by doctoral students from the U.S., Asia, Europe, the Middle East and South America. Sean Brenner | July 26, 2024…
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In Memoriam: Professor Arnold J. Band
Published: July 22, 2024The faculty in the Department of Comparative Literature mourn the loss of our cherished colleague and the founder of our program, Professor Emeritus Arnold J. Band. We wanted to express…
Read MoreFor these first-year students, writings from the past shed light on issues around today’s AI revolution
Published: June 13, 2024Reposted from UCLA Humanities website As part of the course, Jocelyn Granados (left), Lilianna Rodriguez and classmates learned how to use podcast technology in a DeNeve Learning Center lab. (Photo:…
Read MoreStatement of Undersigned Faculty in UCLA’s Department of Comparative Literature on the University’s Response to Campus Protests
Published: May 8, 2024We, the undersigned faculty in UCLA’s Department of Comparative Literature, write to express our grave concern over how the university’s administration has responded to the Palestine Solidarity Encampment and protests…
Read MoreNew Publication: “Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature” by Zrinka Stahuljak
Published: February 1, 2024Fixers 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…
Read MoreComp 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 MoreCongratulations to the Class of 2023!
Published: June 23, 2023On behalf of the Department of Comparative Literature and Department Chair, Professor Michael Rothberg, we would like to extend exuberant congratulations to the graduates of 2023! To the undergraduate students…
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