The Comparative Literature Luncheon is a weekly informal lunchtime gathering of students, faculty, and other members of the University community. Each week there is a short (30 minute) presentation, by a visitor or a local speaker, on a topic related to any humanities discipline.

September 16, 2024 - 12:15 pm

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Ranjan Ghosh (University of North Bengal) presents “Plastic Lines”

September 23, 2024 - 12:15 pm

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Tarek El-Ariss (Dartmouth College) presents “The Self in Theory”

September 30, 2024 - 12:15 pm

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Jonathan Eburne (Penn State) presents “Exploded Views”

October 7, 2024 - 12:15 pm

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Duncan Yoon (New York University) presents “China in 20th and 21st Century African Literature”

October 14, 2024 - 12:15 pm

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Will Bridges (University of Rochester) presents “The Televisual Case for Reparations: Reparational Reading and Visions of Repair (and Disrepair)”

October 21, 2024 - 12:15 pm

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Anna M. Shields (Princeton University) presents “Books Lost and Rediscovered: Transmissions of Knowledge in China’s “Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms” Era”

October 28, 2024 - 12:15 pm

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Vance Byrd (University of Pennsylvania) presents “War and Empathy in Open Group’s Repeat After Me (2022/2024)”

November 4, 2024 - 12:15 pm

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Najat Rahman (University of Montreal) presents “Home, or the Carceral: Poetics, Ethics, Politics of Sound”

November 11, 2024 - 12:15 pm

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Jack Chen (University of Virgina) presents “Concerning Ghosts”

November 18, 2024 - 12:15 pm

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Jacobo Sefamí and Myriam Moscona presents “Literature of the Jewish-Mexican Diaspora”

December 2, 2024 - 12:15 pm

Events

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Antonio Barrenechea (University of Mary Washington) presents “From Peru to Pennsylvania: On the Origins of Inter-American Literary Study”

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Estefanía Bournot (Harvard University) presents “Dakar – Recife: Rethinking World Literature Through South-South Lens”

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Yiqun Zhou (Stanford University) presents TBA (details forthcoming)

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Alexander Fyfe (University of Georgia) presents TBA (details forthcoming)

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Diego Luis (Tufts University) presents “Manila and Acapulco: A Tale of Two Cities in the Early Modern Black Pacific”

(Comp Lit Luncheon) James Welker (Kanagawa University) presents “Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Manga Artists and Fans Reconsidering “Women” in 1970s–1980s Japan”

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Damion Searls (Writer and Translator) presents “The Philosophy of Translation”

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Harris Feinsod (Johns Hopkins University) presents “Into Steam: The Worlds of Modernism at Sea”

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Shuang Shen (Penn State) presents “The Language Question in Cold War Sinosphere”