Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities Katherine Elkins is the director of the integrated program in humane ...

Comparative literature is inherently multicultural and dynamic; the comparative approach embraces world literature and culture in all periods of history. The comparative literature and culture major ...

Martin Hägglund, who specializes in post-Kantian philosophy, critical theory, and modernist literature, has been appointed the Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities, ...

Comparative literature is a quixotic discipline. Its practitioners press against institutional constraints and the limitations of human capacity as they try to grasp the infinite variety of the ...

The Program in World Literatures (formerly comparative literature) enables students to learn languages and engage with at least two literary and cultural traditions studied in their original languages ...

Zrinka Stahuljak’s comparative literature course next quarter will cover much of the same subject matter she has taught in years past: a sweeping survey of writing from the Middle Ages to the 17th ...

Marc Blanchard, distinguished professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Davis, died on Nov. 8 after a long struggle against cancer. He was 67. A professor at UC Davis for 39 ...

The field of Comparative and Transnational Literature interrogates the ways in which literary texts traverse national borders and cultural boundaries, thereby challenging conventional assumptions of ...

In winter 2025, a comparative literature class at UCLA will feature a textbook, homework assignments, and TA resources generated by AI. To create those materials, Professor Zrinka Stahuljak provided ...

Awarded the Phoenix Prize for Significant Editorial Achievement by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals in 1996, THE COMPARATIST is a dynamic, well-established journal of comparative literature ...

The Department of Comparative Literature is a small department whose distinctiveness lies in fostering students' originality and independent intellectual inquiries. It's core identity consists in the ...

Comparative literature is inherently multicultural and dynamic; the comparative approach embraces world literature and culture in all periods of history. The comparative literature and culture major ...