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Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature

Crossing a range of traditional disciplines, we seek to lead the public conversation about the powers of culture in the modern world.

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Jack Zipes Republishes Anti-Fascist Children’s Book from the Early 20th Century

Professor Emeritus Jack Zipes started a new publishing house that aims to bring back from obscurity out-of-print children’s books that address political issues, such as the…

Cover of Timothy Brennan's book Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said

Brennan's Edward Said Biography Reviewed in The New Humanist

Read Nadine El-Enany's review of Prof. Tim Brennan's highly acclaimed biography of Edward Said in The New Humanist.

Cancelling COPS

Professor and chair of cultural studies and comparative literature and professor of communication studies Laurie Ouellette places the show COPS within a historical and…

Cinema’s First Epidemic: From Contagious Twitching to Convulsive Laughter

There was no funnier sight gag in early cinema than the catastrophe of epidemic contagion. Habitual tics such as yawning, laughing, sneezing, hiccupping, itching, coughing…

Business Always as Usual: Hypernormalization and Pandemic Labor

This essay by CSCL grad students Alya Ansari and Mitch Hernandez responds to the exceptionalization of labor conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing these…

Upcoming Events

November 15, 2021

Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet and the Job of the Translator

Public lecture by writer and translator Damion Searls