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The Department of Comparative Literature
The UCLA Department of Comparative Literature would like to congratulate all of our graduates of Class of 2018. The commencement ceremony featured faculty, students, their families and alumni. Professor of…
Read More“We offer our grad students the very best opportunities to develop as teachers…” In this video interview, Professor David Macfadyen, Department Chair and Professor of Comparative Literature, Director of Undergraduate…
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Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature What classes do you teach here at UCLA? I teach classes on African Literature in Comparative Contexts, where we look at various literary traditions…
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On a cloudy spring Saturday, a handful of UCLA’s Comparative Literature graduate students participated in a getaway writing retreat. The event was hosted at the home of Jason Araujo, in an…
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Top: Comparative Literature graduate student Helga Zambrano engaging in thoughtful dialogue during the conference cocktail hour. Bottom: Conference Participants dialoguing about their future career opportunities. REPORT: After four years of…
Read MoreThree graduate students in Comparative Literature have just been awarded prestigious Graduate Student Mentorships for the 2018-2019 school year at UCLA. Clockwise, from top left, they are: Catherine Illingworth, Shane…
Read MoreTwo of our graduate students, Helga Zambrano and Rebecca Lippman, were celebrated last week as members of the STAR award-winning staff for the UCLA’s Scholarship Resource Center. Over…
Read MoreComparative Literature’s Professor Zrinka Stahuljak has just been offered a Visiting Appointment at the Collège de France. Under the heading of “Les fixeurs au Moyen Âge,” the public events have been showcased…
Read MoreCatherine Illingworth, a doctoral student in UCLA’s Comparative Literature Department, recently gave a bold presentation to the Rotary Club of Los Angeles. Herself a scholar of Dante, Ms. Illingworth drew…
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What is your area of research? My research is really at the intersections of black studies and Jewish studies. I’m interested in interrogating the broad, historical relationship between anti-Semitism and…
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