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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…

Reposted 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:…

We, 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…

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…

Reposted 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…

Reposted 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….

Reposted 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…

Reposted 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…

Reposted 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…