COMPARATIVE LITERATURE is an exciting interdisciplinary program that allows you to study literature as it shapes and is shaped by the world of science, economics, politics, sexuality, and other cultural and historical forces. It is a discipline that should be attractive to students with a wide ranging interest in literature, theory, and cultural studies, and who also wish to read literature in the original language as well as in translation.

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                                                                 UPCOMING EVENTS!


POSTCOLONIALITIES CONFERENCE!
Friday, April 17, 2009
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Alexander Library Teleconference Center
Postcolonialities Conference
 
“Postcolonialities” is a one-day conference that takes as a point of departure the discomfort produced by postcolonial theory among cultural critics and historians specializing in the study of intellectual formation and histories of ideas produced from within colonial contexts.  The participants will also explore the benefit and limitations of comparative work as it has been conducted in postcolonial criticism.  Guest lecturers to talk about the ways in which Postcolonial theory needs to be adapted to engage with the study the Hispanic Caribbean (Silvio Torres-Saillant, Comparative Literature and Latino Studies, Syracuse), the Philippines (Vicente Rafael, History, University of Washington) the Anglo postcolonial world (Ania Loomba English, University of Pennsylvania) and South Asia (Sonali Perera, Department of English, Rutgers).    

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Comparative Literature
195 College Avenue
College Avenue Campus
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1062
Phone: (732) 932-7606
Fax: (732) 932-2041
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Graduate Director: Elin Diamond
Undergraduate Director: César Braga-Pinto
Administrative Assistant:  Marilyn Tankiewicz