UChicago Comparative Literature

05/18/2023

Please join us TOMORROW, Friday, May 19th at 12:30pm for a lecture by Professor Juliane Werner (University of Vienna) on “Aestheticizing Transgression: Intensive Animal Agriculture in Literature” with a reception to follow.

04/21/2023

Please join us on Monday 4/24 for an Experimental Translation workshop with Matvei Yankelvich (Columbia) at 4:30pm.

Register for the workshop with faculty organizer, Professor Rachel Galvin ([email protected])

03/17/2023

Comparative Literature community, please join us Today, Friday March 17th at the Chicago Athletic Association for a post-ACLA happy hour from 4:30-6:30pm!

Please RSVP at bit.ly/3yKE8zp

03/17/2023

We have a number of classes on offer in Spring 2023 with seats still available:

03/15/2022

Join artist Nikita Kadan (Kyiv) for a discussion of his recent solo show 'STONE HITS STONE.'

Wednesday, March 16
Noon in Chicago // 7pm in Ukraine
Register at https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEucuugpjMqGNC729ZPJaUd1-wwXHTQdUfe

"The historical past -- in the form of ideologies, art and acts of political violence -- lies at the heart of Kadan's oeuvre. He delves deep into the (Ukrainian) avant-garde and engages with the history of last century in Ukraine. Permeating the entire exhibition are historical events, objects and designs which the artist re-interprets with regard to modern-day pressing need to resist geopolitical failures, and far-right ideologies. With an acute sense of urgency, Kadan continues to talk about history as the here and now. But the exhibition goes beyond historical facts by addressing political violence embedded in binary world views. It makes the question of memory as such the subject of artistic expression while exposing and contrasting the political injuries caused to it." -- BJÖRN GELDHOF, "Nikita Kadan: The Past as Urgent Now"

Hosted by the Yiddish Fund, CEERES, and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago

Join avant-garde artist Nikita Kadan (Kyiv) for a discussion of his recent solo show 'STONE HITS STONE.'

12/07/2021

The Department of Comparative Literature is offering a new course, Gendering Arabs: Embodiment, Agency, Affect with Professor Hoda el Shakry this Winter quarter which may be of interest to you. Students can register at coursesearch.uchicago.edu

Gendering Arabs: Embodiment, Agency, Affect with Professor Hoda el Shakry
AASR 37880 / CMLT 27880 / ENGL 27880 / ENGL 37880 / GNSE 27880 / GNSE 37880

This course explores the diverse ways that gender and sexuality are represented in contemporary cultural texts—film, fiction, and art—from the Middle East and North Africa. These creative works will be paired with critical writings from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives (gender studies, q***r theory, affect theory, literary and cultural studies, anthropology, Islamic studies, and activist literature). While we will attend to the layered histories and legacies of colonialism, orientalism, globalization, military occupation, and war, our goal is to center gender discourses and practices as they are negotiated, performed, and contested by artists, writers, and thinkers in and from the region. Our readings and films emphasize how questions of agency, affect, and embodiment shape the lifeworlds and creative imaginaries of cultural producers from the Middle East and North Africa.

NB: This course is designed for undergraduates and MA students. PhD Students will not be admitted.

12/02/2021

The department of Comparative Literature is offering a new course, Anticolonial Thought (CMLT 28992, ENGL 28992, HMRT 28992) with Professor Leah Feldman this Winter quarter which may be of interest to you. Students can register at coursesearch.uchicago.edu

04/21/2021

Today and tomorrow is Giving Day–from noon to noon we will have 24 hours of giving, challenges, prizes, and chances to engage with and cheer on UChicago supporters. Join us by making a gift to the Humanities Division.

03/19/2021

Undergraduates, there are still seats available in Sam Lasman's Spring “Humans and Their Predators” CMLT 21984. Please note that registration add/drop reopens on March 22nd.

Undergraduates, please note this interesting Spring class taught by our Humanities Teaching Fellow, Sam Lasman “Humans and Their Predators” CMLT 21984.

03/05/2021

Prof. Haun Saussy will be teaching CMLT 25512/35512 (CLCV 25520): Greek Antiquity, Modernity, and Multiculturality in Spring 2021. Please see the flyer for more details. The course will run M/W/F 10:20-11:10 remotely.