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Department of Comparative Literature

Community Spotlight

Spring 2023 Grads
May. 12, 2023

Congratulations Spring 2023 Graduates!
Congratulations Fall 2022 Graduates!
Sep. 30, 2022

Congratulations Fall 2022 Graduates!
Fall 2022 Letter from Mark Sanders, Chair of Comparative Literature
Sep. 01, 2022

Fall 2022 Letter from Mark Sanders, Chair of Comparative Literature

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!

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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Andrea Gadberry

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

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Emily Apter

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

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