Official page for the Comparative Literature program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
For over thirty years, Comparative Literature has offered outstanding opportunities for study at the crossroads of various disciplines. From the exploration of techniques of critical reading and interpretation to the development of theoretical perspectives, the Department's approach is wide-ranging and rigorous. Areas of curricular emphasis include theories of literature and interpretation, theory
11/27/2024
A special issue of Comparative Critical Studies, the journal of the British Comparative Literature Association, on contrarian speech in literature, politics, and art, co-edited by UMass Senior Lecturer Jim Hicks, and including an essay by UMass grad Joe Keady.
04/18/2024
Wonderful to have Hussein Ibish (PhD, 2002) back on campus this week for a workshop with grad students on non academic career paths and for an insightful lecture on How Narratives and Poetics Framed the Gaza War Yet Could Point to a Better Future
11/07/2023
Please submit paper and panel proposals for this spring's Graduate Student Conference on Translation Studies! Hosted by the graduate students in the Program of Comparative Literature at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
April 20-21, 2024
Call for papers: https://www.umass.edu/complit/event/call-papers-graduate-student-conference-translation-studies
Sponsored by: The Translation Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
UMass Amherst Online Certificate in Translation and Interpreting
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The Massachusetts Review
04/27/2023
Summer courses now open!
Our summer online courses are open for enrollment. Classes start May 30. To apply: https://bit.ly/343A95k
04/18/2023
"The exilic poet, and the exilic poem, bring together the homeland and the geography of exile, spaces once distinct and now unified in their connection to the reality of estrangement."
UMass Comparative Literature grad student Vika Mujumdar looks at forced absence, and contrasting lavish imagery with economical lexicon, in Hilde Domin's "With My Shadow," by Sarah Kafatou, for : https://massreview.org/node/11285
04/07/2023
ALTA is Hiring! Seeking: Secretary (Arizona-based) The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), an affiliate of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona, seeks self-motivated and highly qualified applicants for the position o…
03/29/2023
Four more days!! We want to read your work! Head on over to http://bit.ly/2EN4zIg and submit to our 2023 in Nonfiction! 🎉
03/29/2023
“All is dark. Listen a kommos sung solo
It is too late to repair anything.”
- Ru Freeman, “The Heart Shows No Signs” (2019)
Out of the wreckage of war and imperialism, artists often present us with revelatory and life-affirming insights. The Feinberg Series capstone is an evening of poetry with distinguished, award-winning writers whose work has been deeply influenced by U.S. wars in Vietnam, Central America, and Iraq.
Please join us April 3, 7pm EDT on Zoom. Register: https://bit.ly/feinberg_capstone
Poets include Carolyn Forché, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dunya Mikhail, and Ocean Vuong. The event will be moderated by poet and activist Ru Freeman of the Artists Network at Narrative 4.
This is the culmination of the Feinberg Series on “Confronting Empire” presented by UMass Department of History. In partnership with the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy and more than 3 dozen partners, including:
UMass Amherst UMass Amherst AfroAm College of Humanities & Fine Arts at UMass Amherst UMassEnglish Spanish and Portuguese UMass Amherst Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst UMass Amherst Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies College of Social & Behavioral Sciences UMass Amherst UMass Civic Engagement & Service-Learning UMass Amherst Economics Department Labor Center at UMass Amherst Center for Justice, Law, and Societies UMass Amherst Resistance Studies Initiative Social Thought and Political Economy Program (STPEC) University of Massachusetts Press Security in Context Anthropology of Consciousness Smith College History Department Latin American & Latino/a Studies - Smith College MHC Department of Sociology and Anthropology UMass Amherst Libraries Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee UMass Public History Program UMass Journalism Department Veterans For Peace Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, UMass Amherst English Department Institute for Social Science Research
Read “The Heart Shows No Signs” by Ru Freeman in its entirety here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/.../the-heart-shows-no...
03/11/2023
Margot Demopoulos reviews Orhan Pamuk's Nights of Plague
"Pamuk’s works of fiction, while steeped in Turkey’s documented history, can also be likened to the oral traditions of epic stories and poems. Characters may be fanciful or idealized and their inner lives are not the main concern. Pamuk’s pleasure in spinning this tale is palpable. This long work could have benefited from a serious edit, but it moves fast. The engine driving the novel is change. Changes in attitude toward plague—denial, resistance, rebellion. And regime changes that steamroll events toward the ultimate—liberation from the chokehold of the Ottoman Empire. "
In today's , Margot Demopoulos reviews Orhan Pamuk's new novel from Alfred A. Knopf: https://massreview.org/node/11225
03/11/2023
Open CFP at Skopos
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