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- 195:101: Introduction to World Literature
- 195:135: Introduction to Short Fiction
- 195:150: World Mythology
- 195:201: Literature Across Borders (topics vary)
- 195:220: Our World: Social Justice and the Environment
- 195:221: Introduction to the Literatures of the Middle East
- 195:235: Detective Stories
- 195:244: Introduction to Mythology
- 195:246: Fairy Tales Then and Now
- 195:255: Italy, City by City (cities vary)
- 195:258: From Nietzsche to Superman
- 195:260: Introduction to Caribbean Literature
- 195:261: Introduction to Theatre
- 195:262: Life Writing in France
- 195:267: Latino Literature
- 195:270: Past Today
- 195:276: Realism and Revolution
- 195:315: Journey to Hell and Beyond: Dante and Medieval Culture
- 195:384: Poetry (topics vary)
- 195:120: Global Science Fiction
- 195:232: Women Writers of South Asia
- 195:306: Literature and Cultural Conquest
- 195:337: Literature and Memory in the Arab World
- 195:357: Contemporary Novel – Nabokov
- 195:382: Kafka and World Literature
- 195:240: Animals and Humans
- 195:316: Politics, Literature, and the Arts – Ottoman Middle East
- 195:137: The Haunted
- 195:277: Radical Modernism: Dada to Punk Rock
- 195:282: Music, Culture, and Memory in the French-Speaking World
- 195:295: Latino and Caribbean Studies
- 195:307: Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures and Theories
- 195:247: Literature and Psychoanalytic Theory
- 195:311: Dostoevsky
- 195:318: Post Modern Approaches to Sacred Literature
- 195:363: Women Writers of Africa
- 195:374: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
- 195:381: Topics in Comparative Cultural Studies (topics vary)
- 195:380: German-Jewish Literature and Culture
- 195:388: Cultures of the Middle Ages- Muslim Spain
- 195:397: Issues in Comparative Literature: Russian and Soviet Film
- 195:397: Issues in Comparative Literature: – Women’s Lives and Literature
- 195:398: Issues in Comparative Literature: Hispanic and Caribbean Literature of Migration
- 195:110: Introduction to Heritage Culture and Language Studies
- 195:140: Being Human
- 195:170: The Art of Comparison (1.5 credit mini-course | topics vary)
- 195:395: Issues in Comparative Literature (topics vary)
- 195:396: Issues in Comparative Literature (topics vary)
- 195:397: Issues in Comparative Literature (topics vary)
- 195:398: Issues in Comparative Literature (topics vary)
- 195:203: Masterworks of Western Literature
- 195:227: Tales of Horror
- 195:243: Introduction to the Literatures of South Asia
- 195:249: Modern Literature of South Asia – Postcolonial Identity and Indian Literature
- 195:251: Major French Writers in Translation (topics vary)
- 195:272: Russia Between Empire and Nation
- 195:301: Introduction to Literary Theory
- 195:338: Caribbean Pluralities and Indo-Caribbean Literature
- 195:345: Serial Storytelling Across Media
- 195:348: Stories of Russian Life: Memory, Invention, Experience
- 195:377: Topics in World Cinema (topics vary)
- 195:396: Issues in Comparative Literature: Bollywood
- 195:397: Issues in Comparative Literature: Love & Sex Italian Style
- 195:398: Issues in Comparative Literature: Modern Arabic Literature
- 195:497: Capstone Workshop
- course descriptions (undergraduate) :: Fall 2023
- 195:312: Russian and East European Science Fiction
- 195:303: Introduction to Translation Studies
- 195:271: Resisting Petrocapitalism: Pacific Women Against Climate Change
- 195:160: Introduction to Comparative Literature
- 195:204: Masterworks of World Literature
- 195:206: Banned Books
- 195:230: Modern Jewish Culture: Key Texts and Their Afterlives
- 195:231: Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature in Translation
- 195:265: Art and Power
- 195:280: Textual Transformation
- 195:290: Special Topics in Comparative Literature (topics vary) (1.5 credits)
- 195:291: Special Topics in Comparative Literature (topics vary) (1.5 credits)
- 195:296: A Cultural History of Artificial Intelligence
- 195:305: Readings in Latin American Literature and Theory
- 195:308: Gender, Race, and Textual Imagination
- 195:314: German and Comparative Literature
- 195:321: World Cinema II
- 195:326: Sexuality and Literary Studies
- 195:329: Modern Japanese Novel and the West
- 195:342: Romantic Movement
- 195:351: Literatures of the Americas
- 195:354: 19th Century Novel
- 195:357: The Contemporary Novel
- 195:358: Odysseus in Literature and Film
- 195:359: Literature of the Fantastic
- 195:360: Autobiography
- 195:361: Brazil and the US
- 195:364: Big Bang: The Literature of Chaos and Order
- 195:385: Modern Poetry
- 195:399: Internship
- 195:419: History of Criticism
- 195:420: History of Criticism
- 195:430: Gender, Nation, and Literature in South Asia
- 195:440: Seminar in Genre
- 195:471: Yukio Mishima: His Fictions and Global Literary Legacy
- 195:480: Special Topics in Comparative Literature (topics vary)
- 195:484: Russia After Stalin: Literature, History, Theory
- 195:493: Independent Study
- 195:494: Independent Study
- 195:496: Honors in Comparative Literature
- 195:497: Honors in Comparative Literature
- 195:357: Contemporary Novel – Nabokov (2)
- 195:233: The French Enlightenment
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- Marcone, Jorge
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- Maldonado-Torres, Nelson
- Behrmann, Nicola
- Bishop, Karen Elizabeth
- Goodlad, Lauren
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- Baldi, Andrea
- Bronner, Stephen
- Chung, Jae Won Edward
- Cohan, Ed
- da Silvia, Daniel
- Davidson, Harriet
- Doty, Mark
- Alidou, Ousseina
- Gambarota, Paola
- Isaac, Allan Punzalan
- Jurecic, Ann
- Kernan, Ryan
- Khazanov, Pavel
- Koerber, Benjamin
- McKeon, Michael
- Rajan, V.G. Julie
- Reinert, Stephen
- Sass, Louis
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- Schwartz, Marcy Ellen
- Sen, Meheli
- Song, Weijie
- Stephens, Michelle
- Stevens, Camilla
- Swartz, Wendy
- Wang, Xiaojue
- Khayyat, E.
- Lawrence, Jeffrey
- Levine, Michael
- Mani, Preetha
- Martin-Márquez, Susan
- Nerlekar, Anjali
- Maurer, Anaïs
- Parker, Andrew
- Rennie, Nicholas
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- Lecture by Professor Ousseina Alidou
- The Avowal of Difference: Queer Latino American Narratives
- Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context
- Chorus and Ornament: On Nazi Crowd Control
- The Dimensions of Difference: Space, Time and Bodies in Women’s Cinema and Continental Philosophy.
- Masking and Unmasking Jewishness on the Contemporary American Stage
- Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities
- The Golden Notebook
- Comp Lit, U. Erfurt (Germany): on Landscape & German Film
- Istanbul 1940 and Global Modernity: The World According to Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar and Edib
- Dante, Franciscan Poverty, and the Donation of Constantine
- Comparative Worldings: The Case of Indian Literatures
- Faculty Lecture Series: Jerusalem within Athens: The Theological Substratum of Derrida's 'Plato's Pharmacy'
- Graduate Student Colloquia
- Waking’ Ovid: James Joyce and the Metamorphosis of History
- Detritus of Desire
- The Melodrama of Interiority
- The Poetics of Pain
- COMPARATIVE LITERATURE GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM
- Figures of the Interval: Luce Irigaray and Film
- Figures of Attachment: Translation, Genre, and Collaborative Reading Across Virginia Woolf's Novels and Essays.
- Networks of Silence: Between the Poetry of John Cage and Octavio Paz
- The Poetics of Memory in the Documentary Films of Jia Zhangke
- Sexual Inversion and Modern Drama: The Decadent Modernity of José González Castillo
- a graduate colloquium on the 2013 Gezi Park protests in Istanbul
- “World Literature” and the Non-Western World
- Topographies, Archaeologies, Genealogies: Comparative Literature between Past and Future
- Gilles Deleuze and the Soviet Time-Image: Transcendent Use of the Faculties on Totalitarian Screen
- Writing With Patients: Medical Insight and Comic Form in Chekhov's Early Writing
- Archive and Incest: Luis López Nieves’ “El conde de Ovando”
- Of Beloved and Other Demons: (De)Pathologizing Black Love in Morrison and Garcia Marquez
- Of Cassette Tape 'Letters' and Basement Refrigerators: Housing the Archive of the Caribbean "Diaspora
- Translating Linguistic Conflict in Two
- “El Hermoso Juego,” or “The Beautiful Game:”
- Listening to Foreignness The Infrastructure and Circulation of Chinese Radio Drama in the 1980's
- “Heaven Rained Millet and the Ghosts Wailed at Night”— The Invention of a Genre Socialist Science Fiction
- On the Postsecular and the Decolonial
- Puerto Rican Blackness through a Cuban Lens
- The Frame of Criticism
- Human-Coal Entanglement: A horizon of Post-Socialist Humanism in Blind Shaft
- Biennial Graduate Conference
- Leo Bersani Lecture, Ardent Masturbation
- Why This World
- "The Politics of the Common" - A Lecture by Michael Hardt
- Distinguished Lectures in Caribbean Studies at Rutgers - "The Subject of Rights"
- Caliban in the work of Silvio Torres-Saillant
- Comparative Literature Film Night - 11/17 - Rue Cases Nègres (Sugar Cane Alley)
- Distinguished Lectures in Caribbean Studies at Rutgers
- Program in Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference
- Distinguished Lectures in Caribbean Studies at Rutgers
- Program in Comparative Literature Conference
- Roundtable Beyond Creolization and Créolité: New Directions in Critical Caribbean Studies
- PUNSTER PNIN and the YELLOW-BLUE VASS: The Multilingual Characters of Nabokov's American Novels
- New Feelings: Power and Aesthetics Today -- with Steven Shaviro
- Comparative Literature in Dialogue
- A Conversation with Eric Hayot: Literature, World, and Data
- AMESALL Distinguished Lecture Series: “The Ghazal Among the Nations”
- Spring Biennial Conference: The People of the Book, People of Books
- So. Asia & Theories of Avant-Garde: The Int'l. Scope of So. Asian Modernisms
- Historical Transition and Transition as Such
- Jeanne-Marie Jackson
- Urban (De)coloniality and Literature
- Vichy Legacies: The Loiret Internment Camps and the Fate of Jean Zay
- Anti-Colonialism and Its Trajectories: Postcolonial & Decolonial Thought
- Literature and Environment: Intersections and Trajectories
- (de)composition: Comp Lit Biennial Grad Student Conference
- "Body in Excess": Rutgers Comp Lit 2025 Graduate Student Biennial Conference
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- Comparative Literature welcomes two new faculty
- Edyta M. Bojanowska Awarded MLA Prize
- Richard Serrano, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Wins a Guggenheim for 2010-2011.
- Janet Walker - Guest Researcher at Graduate School of Literary Studies of the Free University Berlin
- Rabindranath Tagore's Concept of World Literature by Professor Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta
- Faculty Spotlight
- Comparative Literature Welcomes Nelson Maldonado-Torres, a Core Professor for Comparative Literature
- Professor Ousseina Alidou Wins 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award of the Africa-America Institute
- Professor Paola Gambarota Wins MLA Awards Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award
- Professor Michael Levine Wins the SAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education
- In 2009-2010, FOUR Comparative Literature graduate students secured jobs
- Richard Serrano, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Wins a Guggenheim for 2010-2011.
- Edyta M. Bojanowska, Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Awarded MLA Book Prize
- Comparative Literature Welcomes Two New Faculty
- Job Placement in Comparative Literature, 2008-2009
- Professor Edyta Bojanowska won the 2013-2014 ACLS Fedrick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship
- Professor Janet Walker Wins the SAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 2012-2013
- Professor Jorge Marcone Receives 2013-2014 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education
- Professor Ben. Sifuentes‐Jáuregui Appointed Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Academic Affairs
- Professor Elin Diamond wins graduate student mentoring award
- Professor Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel wins teaching awards
- Professor van Buskirk wins the AATSEEL Best Book Prize
- Recent Faculty Publications
- Prof. Martha Helfer wins SAS Teaching Award
- In Memorium Prof. Steven F. Walker
- Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui our new Comp Lit chair!
- Prof. Maurer publishes The Ocean on Fire
- Prof. Nerlekar the co-winner of the 2025 Wellek Prize!
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- Job Placement in Comparative Literature, 2008-2009
- Steven Gonzagowski, Graduate Student, Awarded Faculty Research Development Grant
- In 2009-2010, FOUR Comparative Literature graduate students secured jobs.
- S. Pappalardo & M. Filimon, Graduate Students, Awarded SAS Mellon Dissertation Fellowships 2010-11
- Jennifer Raterman & Alessio Lerro, Graduate Students, Awarded SAS Mellon Summer Research Grant
- Jacqueline Loeb, Graduate Student, Awarded Grad. School's Univ. & Louis Bevier Dissert. Fellowship
- Matthew Mangold, Graduate Student, Awarded FLAS Fellowship at Indiana University
- More Awards
- Matthew Mangold, Graduate Student, Awarded FLAS Fellowship at Indiana University
- Jacqueline Loeb, Graduate Student, Awarded The Graduate School, New Brunswick's Louis Bevier Dissertation Fellowship
- Salvatore Pappalardo & Monica Filimon, Graduate Students, Awarded SAS Mellon Dissertation Fellowship
- Steven Gonzagowski, Graduate student, Awarded Faculty Research Development Grant
- Sergey Toymentsev, alumnus, awarded post-doctoral teaching fellowship
- Caroline Godart publishes dissertation
- Chia-Chieh (Mavis) Tseng, alumna, appointed assistant professor
- Caroline Godart and Tara Coleman appointed to tenure-track positions
- Monica Filimon publishes book on Romanian film director
- Matthew Mangold and Carolyn Ureña to begin new positions
- Critical Theory in the Global South Initiative Concludes Spring 2022
- Congratulations to 2016 PhD Ben de Witte
- CFP: Love in Translation
- Congratulations to Our Prize-Winning Students!
- Recent Graduates Begin New Teaching Positions
- Teaching Practices in the Era of BLM Symposium
- Comp Lit Celebrates Our Recent PhDs!
- Congratulations to Gabriel Bámgbóṣé, Ph.D.
- Comp Lit Students Win Dissertation Awards!
- Congratulations to Joseph Sepulveda Ortiz, Ph.D.
- Inaugural Gnarra Family Fellows in Translation Announced
- Ke "Coco" Xu Defends Dissertation on 1980s Chinese Radio Dramas
- 2024 Gnarra Family Fellowship in Comparative Literature
- Three Dissertations Defended in Spring 2024!
- Comp Lit Students Win Dissertation Fellowships
- Congratulations to Yuanqiu Jiang!
- Congratulations to Sneha Khaund!
- "Body in Excess": Rutgers Comp Lit 2025 Graduate Student Biennial Conference
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- Comparative Literature at Rutgers Day
- Rutgers Day 2009
- Rutgers Day - Thank You!
- Comparative Literature at Rutgers Day
- Comparative Literature at Rutgers Day 2012
- 2012 Comparative Literature Convocation and University Commencement
- Rutgers Day 2013
- Comparative Literature Graduation Convocation
- Comparative Literature Graduation - May 8, 2015
- Welcome Back Reception: September 9, 2014
- Comp Lit's Year-End Celebration for Graduating Seniors and Recent PhDs (May 2015)
- Honors Theses, Class of 2017
- Comp Lit's Year-End Celebration - May 2, 2017
- Honors Theses, Class of 2018
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