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Department of Comparative Literature

Thursday, Apr 13 2023
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In-Person Event
5:00pm
The Great Room & Room 222
19 University Place
Friday, Apr 14 2023
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In-Person Event
5:00pm
Room 122, Meyer Hall
4 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003
Thursday, Apr 20 2023
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In-Person Event
6:00pm
Event space
244 Greene Street, New York, NY 10003
Friday, Apr 21 2023
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In-Person Event
5:00pm
Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003

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)