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….
Welcome to the Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA! Housed within the top public research university in the country, UCLA’s Comparative Literature department has served for more than fifty years…
This article is reprinted here with the permission of the UCLA Asia Pacific Center. The original article can be found at this link. The professorship is one of many recent…
On behalf of the Department of Comparative Literature and Department Co-Chairs, Professors Kathy Komar and Katherine King, we would like to extend our most effusive congratulations to the graduates of…
Per directives from the university, all lectures/discussions/sections and office hours for the Department of Comparative Literature will be conducted online via Zoom or other online chat programs through the end…
On the evening of Tuesday, January 14th, 2020, UCLA Comparative Literature alumnae, Dr. Maryam Wasif Khan, delivered a lecture entitled, “‘Ten Tongues and Ten Mouths’: Reading the Iliad in post-9/11…
On Wednesday, November 20th, the Department of Comparative Literature hosted a book launch for UCLA lecturer (and UCLA Department of Comparative Literature Ph.D. recipient) Dr. Susannah Rodriguez Drissi in Kaplan…
UCLA Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and English, Michael Rothberg’s latest book, “The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators,” received a glowing review in Times Higher Education and…
On October 15, 2019, Professor Shu-mei Shih (Departments of Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Culture, and Asian American Studies) delivered a lecture on “Comparative Literature in a Relational World” in…
We would like to congratulate one of our recently graduated Comparative Literature undergraduate students, Robin Blades, for receiving a Fulbright award to do research in Peru during the upcoming year!…