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Faculty Spotlight

Comparative Literature welcomes two new faculty, beginning Fall 2009.

Andrew Parker, Professor of English at Amherst College will be Visiting Professor of French and Comparative Literature, 2008-2009.

Emily Van Buskirk (Ph.D. Harvard) will be a new Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic, Russian and East European Languages and Literatures, but will do her graduate teaching in Comparative Literature.

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Student Job Placements

In 2008-2009, FIVE Comparative Literature graduate students secured jobs.

Ignacio Infante, Chad Loewen-Schmidt, Christopher Rivera, Josh Beall, Barbara Hamilton

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Contact Us

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
Undergrad Director: César Braga-Pinto
Admin Assistant:  Marilyn Tankiewicz

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Graduate Colloquium & Thanksgiving Potluck Dinner

Graduate Colloquium & Thanksgiving Potluck Dinner
Comparative Literature
Fall 2009

Steven Gonzagowski
"Detritus of Desire

Wednesday, November 18th
5:30-7:30 p.m.
195 College Avenue

Bring your favorite dish to be enjoyed by all!

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Last Updated ( Monday, 23 November 2009 )
 
Why This World
WHY THIS WORLD
A Biography of Clarice Lispector
By Benjamin Moser                                                    
why this world
November 5, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Art History Hall
Room 100
Douglass Campus

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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 November 2009 )
 
Leo Bersani Lecture

Leo Bersani
University of California, Berkeley


Ardent Masturbation
(Descartes, Freud, et al.) Bersani 28

Introduced by David Kurnick
 
Monday, October 26, 2009 | 4:30 PM 

Alexander Library
Teleconference Lecture Hall
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ

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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 November 2009 )
 
“‘Waking’ Ovid: James Joyce and the Metamorphosis of History”
Graduate Colloquium & Potluck Dinner
Comparative Literature
Fall 2009
Salvatore Pappalardo
“‘Waking’ Ovid: James Joyce and the Metamorphosis of History”
Monday, October 19th
5:30-7:30 p.m.
195 College Avenue
Bring your favorite dish to be enjoyed by all!
RSVP to Marilyn Tankiewicz by 10-15-09 with your food item!
marilyn.tankiewicz@rutgers.edu

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Last Updated ( Monday, 23 November 2009 )
 
POSTCOLONIALITIES CONFERENCE!

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.

Last Updated ( Friday, 16 October 2009 )