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Professor Shu-mei Shih will deliver the April keynote at Berlin’s Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften –– itself housed in Humboldt University. Entitled “Sinophone Meets Francophone,” the conference is outlined as follows, while…

Some impressive news from our former chair, Professor Efrain Kristal. It spans several continents; we begin in Germany. He recently gave a lecture for the “Of Dawns of Day” Symposium…

Founded in 1530, the Collège de France is a renowned higher education and research establishment in Paris. It is considered by many academics and observers to be the nation’s most…

“One of the best departments of Comparative Literature in North America…” In this video interview, Professor Massimo Ciavolella, Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian, Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance…

Major news from CL’s Professor Shu-mei Shih (center in image). Not only has she been appointed “Honorary Chair Professor” at the National Taiwan Normal University for two years, she has also…

  This week sees the start of a major lecture series hosted by us collectively in CL. Between now and late May, six leading thinkers will visit us under the…

CL Professor Jenny Sharpe has returned from Harvard after a most successful colloquium at the Barker Center. Entitled “The Underwater World of Édouard Duval-Carrié’s Art: Mapping a Vodou Archive,” the event…

For one week this February, the UCLA Comparative Literature Dept was home to a celebration––and critique––of technology’s nascent trajectories. The event, called Cyber Days, brought hundreds of students, faculty, and…

Michael Rothberg is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. He is also the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies. Professor Rothberg’s widely acclaimed book, Multidirectional Memory, is now…