Zrinka Stahuljak and Shannon Speed receive Mellon grant
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…
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Exploring the fraught nature of memory and comparison | Michael Rothberg, a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, examines how people and societies recall traumatic historical events
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…
Congratulations to the Class of 2023!
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…
Amitav Ghosh delivers UCLA’s Edward W. Said Lecture
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…
Congratulations to Mariam Rahmani & Benjamin Ratskoff!
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…
Professor and Chair Michael Rothberg Among Recipients of 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships
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’…
Heim Memorial Lecture Returns on May 3rd with Dr. Maureen Freely
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2nd Annual Edward W. Said Lecture | April 14th with Dr. Angela Davis
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Final ECT Lecture of Winter 2022 on 3/7 with Alexander Beecroft
“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…
Dean of Humanities Announces New Co-Directors of Program in Experimental Critical Theory
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…