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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

Events

Tuesday, Oct 11 2022
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Madina Thiam - African History and the Making of a Classic: Yambo Ouologuem's 'Duty of Violence'
In-Person Event
11:00am - 1:00pm
Room 222, 19 University Place
Friday, Oct 14 2022
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Fugitive Proust
Online Event
In-Person Event
9:30am - 4:30pm
La Maison Française
16 Washington Mews
Saturday, Oct 15 2022
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Fugitive Proust
Online Event
In-Person Event
9:30am - 4:30pm
La Maison Française
16 Washington Mews
Thursday, Oct 27 2022
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Nasrin Olla - Alienation: Fanon and Beauvoir
In-Person Event
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Great Room, 19 University Place
Wednesday, Nov 2 2022
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Anahid Nersessian: Keats & Calamity
In-Person Event
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Great Room, 19 University Place
Thursday, Nov 3 2022
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Slavoj Žižek: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
In-Person Event
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Meyer Hall, Room 121
4 Washington Place
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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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