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The Department of Comparative LiteratureReposted 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 MoreOn 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…
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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Read More“Contactless Comparison” Monday, March 7 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PST Zoom Meeting – RSVP here About the Lecture It’s easy to compare things that are produced near each other, by…
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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…
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For International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27, 2022), Department of Comparative Literature Chair Professor Michael Rothberg has written an article for Johns Hopkins University’s American Institute for Contemporary German Studies….
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