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Department of Comparative Literature

Community Spotlight

Fall 2022 Grads
Sep. 30, 2022

Congratulations Fall 2022 Graduates!
Fall 2022 Letter
Sep. 01, 2022

Fall 2022 Letter from Mark Sanders, Chair of Comparative Literature
Michael Krimper on Beckett, Duthuit, Sade
Jul. 15, 2022

Michael Krimper on Beckett, Duthuit, Sade

Thursday, Apr 13 2023
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Michael Sawyer: Ishmael, Jack-the-Bear, and Beloved at the Threshold of the Door of 'No' Return
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5:00pm
The Great Room & Room 222
19 University Place
Friday, Apr 14 2023
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Computer Love
In-Person Event
5:00pm
Room 122, Meyer Hall
4 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003
Thursday, Apr 20 2023
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Underwriting Modernism: Insurance, Risk Management, Animal Spirits
In-Person Event
6:00pm
Event space
244 Greene Street, New York, NY 10003
Friday, Apr 21 2023
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The Clinical Complex: Reflections on Sick Buildings and the Architectures of Illness 1880/2020
In-Person Event
5:00pm
Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
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Event Spotlight

On November 2nd, the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program in Poetics & Theory hosted Keats & Calamity - a conversation between Anahid Nersessian, Lenora Hanson, Maureen McLane, and Emily Apter!

Faculty Bookshelf

Check here for recent publications by faculty members!

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Emanuela Bianchi

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

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Emily Apter

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

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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Andrea Gadberry

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

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