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Department of Comparative Literature

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To The New Community Spotlight Feature!

Each month, we'll be highlighting standout news from the community - faculty fellowships, student publications, grant winners and more!

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Feminism and the Decolonization of the Unconscious

Cecilia Palmeiro - Suely Rolnik - Sayak Valencia

March 25, 2021

Mariano Panel 2 Poster

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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

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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