Comparative Literature Club - every Monday

Liberal Arts Collective Podcast Series - every Thursday
Leila Pazargadi (Nevada State College), "Autographics & The Archive: Visualizing Memory & Trauma in Southwestern Asian Graphic Memoirs"
Zelideth Rivas (Marshall College), “Displaced evidence: Archival research and oral history across languages and cultures.”
Robin Visser (UNC-Chapel Hill), "Sinophone Anti-Epics of the Anthropocene"
Rose Jolly (Penn State), "BEYOND HUMAN RIGHTS – THE NOVEL AS RIGHT-MAKING ARTEFACT"
Comparative Literature Club - every Monday
A talk by Ericka Dunbar, "Trafficking Hadassah: An Africana Reading of the Book of Esther"
Comparative Literature Virtual Open House
A Workshop on Methods - The World of Professional Editing
Arturo Arias (UC Merced), on "New Narratives in Indigenous Languages: Creativity and the Struggle Against Racism in Colonialized Spaces"
Larissa Sansour and Oreet Ashery in Conversation
Claudia Milian (Duke University), on "Temporary Subjects: The Climate Migrant and The LatinX City"
Perry Zurn (American University), on "Curiosity as Strategy and as Tactic"
A Workshop on Methods: Basic Tools of Professional Editing
2014 Penn State Marathon Reading
Aimee Kwon (Duke University), CANCELLED
Alan Golding, "Avant-gardism Against Itself: 'Conversation' and the Reader Critic in the Little Review"
Brazilian graphic novelist Marcelo d’Salete to give a talk
CGS Arabic Film Series
CGS Arabic Film Series
CMLIT Annual Awards Ceremony
Curie Virag: “The Garden as a Site of Pleasure in China and Byzantium: What We Can Learn from Comparing Medieval Traditions”
“Asian American Poetry and the Politics of Form,” Dorothy Wang, Williams College
Field Work and Oral Interviews - A Workshop on Methods with Jamie Anderson
"Fine Illuminations: A visual essay on refinement, finesse, and global Cuba," Jacqueline Loss, University of Connecticut
“The World Unspoken: Kleist, Kafka, McCarthy,” Ian Fleishman, University of Pennsylvania
“The Strength of Weak Links in the Sinophone System,” Jing Tsu, Yale University
“Threshold to the Kingdom: The Airport is a Border and the Border is a Volume,” Matthew Hart, Columbia University
"Mirrored Resonance: Writing English in Chinese Characters," Jonathan Stalling, University of Oklahoma
“The Labours of Tovarisch: Ezra Pound’s Slavic Worlds,” Mykola Polyuha, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
“A Group Interview with Nathaniel Mackey,” Nathaniel Mackey, Duke University
"Plastic: The Desire for a Container," Heather Davis, Penn State
Qiana Whitted workshop - CANCELLED
"Resuming Maurice: Maeterlinck and Literary Celebrity," Philip Mosley, Penn State, Worthington Scranton
"The Disintegration of Civil War Memory in Brown v. Board Literature," Michael LeMahieu, Clemson University
"The First Hebrew Shakespeare Translations," Lily Kahn, University College London
"The Rise of the Surface: Cartography, Poetics, and Visual Art across the Early Modern World (France, Germany, Poland)", Katharina Piechocki, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
"Towards an Aesthetics of Stigmata: From Van Gogh's Paintings to Claire Denis's Films," Sabine Doran, Penn State
"Vernacular Politics, Anglophone Prose: the Early Days of the Indian Novel in English", Snehal A. Shingavi, Associate Professor of English, University of Texas
Comparative Literature Virtual Open House
Reginald Jackson (University of Michigan), "Showing Up to Withhold: Economies of Enslavement and Spectacular Restraint in Medieval Japanese Performance"
“Headspace,” by THEA

Leo Ching (Duke University), "Towards an Archipelagic East Asia: Taiwan, Jeju, Okinawa and Decontinentalization"

Thomas Lamarre (McGill University), "Media Ecology: Television and Animation"

LAC Roundtable (Unraveling the Anthropocene) with Laura Anderson Barbata (Independent Artist) and Darren Ranco (University of Maine)

Weihsin Gui (UC Riverside), "Hyphenational Poetics: Omar Musa’s Malaysian Australian Poetry"

Sookja Cho (Arizona State), "Tales of the Forgotten: The Story of Premodern Korean Literature and Its Interactions with China"

Christine Okoth (University of Warwick), "Inexhaustibility and the Aesthetics of Reuse"

Department Awards & Recognition

The Department of Comparative Literature welcomes new graduate students

“Headspace,” by THEA

Congratulations to Camila Gutiérrez Fuentes

When	Apr 26, 2021 from 05:00 PM to 07:00 PM
Contact Name	Emily Newton
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