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The professor's 2021 intellectual biography has received attention around the world, including the Palestine Book Award for Biography.

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The first comprehensive biography of Edward Said explores how the public figure's intellectual breadth and influence developed over the years.

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…

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

News & Highlights from the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature

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

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…

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…

The Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature (CSCL) stands in solidarity with the Black Midwest Initiative in condemning the death of George Floyd in…