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Department of Comparative Literature

Community Spotlight

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Jul. 18, 2022

Michael Krimper on Beckett, Duthuit, Sade
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May. 13, 2022

Devin Thomas, Graduating PhD Student!
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Mar. 02, 2022

New Issue of Brio 'Sehnsucht' Out Now

Events

Thursday, Sep 8 2022
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The Comp Lit Proseminar Syllabus: Workshopping the Problem
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4:00pm - 6:30pm
Great Room, 19 University Place
Thursday, Sep 29 2022
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Surya Parekh: Phillis Wheatley Pursues Poetic Freedom
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5:00pm - 7:00pm
Great Room, 19 University Place
Tuesday, Oct 11 2022
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Africa in Theory: Madina Thiam
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11:00am - 1:00pm
Room 222, 19 University Place
Friday, Oct 14 2022
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Fugitive Proust
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La Maison Française
Saturday, Oct 15 2022
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Fugitive Proust
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La Maison Française
Thursday, Oct 27 2022
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Black Studies & the Contemporary Student: Nasrin Olla
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5:00pm - 7:00pm
Great Room, 19 University Place
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Event Spotlight

On April 13th, the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program in Poetics & Theory hosted Gay Liberation After May '68 - a discussion of Guy Hocquenghem's political writings with Max Fox, Antoine Idier, and Scott Branson!

Faculty Bookshelf

Check here for recent publications by faculty members!

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Emily Apter

Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic (Verso, 2021)

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Andrea Gadberry

Cartesian Poetics: The Art of Thinking (University of Chicago Press, 2020)

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Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts
Ulrich Baer & Smaran Dayal

Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts (Warbler Press, 2020)

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Emanuela Bianchi

The Feminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos (Fordham University Press, 2014)

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