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The Department of Comparative LiteratureReposted 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 MoreReposted 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 MoreReposted 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 MoreThe 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 MoreFrom 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’…
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July 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 MoreWelcome 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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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…
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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…
Read MorePer directives from the university, all lectures/discussions/sections and office hours for the Department of Comparative Literature will be conducted online via Zoom or other online chat programs through the end…
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