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Department of Comparative Literature

Community Spotlight

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May. 13, 2022

Spotlight on: Devin Thomas, graduating PHD Student!
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Mar. 21, 2022

Devanshi Khetarpal's Acceptance to the Bread Loaf Translators' Conference
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Mar. 02, 2022

New Issue of Brio 'Sehnsucht' Out Now

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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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