NPR's Melissa Block speaks to John McWhorter, associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, about the use of the word "thug" to describe Baltimore rioters.

It’s time for a better—and more strategic—definition, Jeffrey R. Wilson writes. The humanities study the things humans make. That definition is better—more accurate and more strategic—than the most ...

This year at Yale, two new literature classes will push the boundaries — cultural, linguistic, and geographic — of what we talk about when we talk about medieval literature. The aims of the classes ...

If you answered yes to either of these questions, look no further: Comparative literature is for you. We offer literary studies without borders. Major Requirements. After an initial course sequence ...

Jameson arrived at Duke in 1985, where he rejuvenated and directed the literature program for 18 years. Under his scholarship, which centered around comparative literature and Marxist theory, the ...

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 ...

Theory/Teoria. Perspectives on Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature Edited by Elisabetta Abignente, Mimmo Cangiano, Irene Fantappiè, Guido Mattia Gallerani, Marco Gatto, Francesco Giusti ...

Throughout the history of Latin America, writers have challenged notions of a white-dominated literary canon by leaving an undeniable mark on literature in their home countries and across the world.

Paul's Conversion: A Comparative Study of Acts 9, 22, & 26. Posted: March 16, 2025 | Last updated: March 23, 2025. The film "Introduction to the New Testament" features Dr. Bernard Boyd from the ...

His research areas are primarily Australian literature, comparative literature, and cultural studies. He is the author of A Concise History of Australian Literature (2006), Writing Back to the Empire ...

Chengzhou He, Intermedial Performativity: Mo Yan's Red Sorghum on Page, Screen, and In-Between, Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 57, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: The Eighth Sino-American Symposium in ...

T here’s a new definition of literature in town. It has been slouching toward us for some time now but may have arrived officially in 2009, with the publication of Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors’s A ...