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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…

On 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…

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…

The 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…

From 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’…