Stanford University's Program in Modern Thought and Literature

Stanford University's Program in Modern Thought and Literature Modern Thought and Literature (MTL) is an interdisciplinary graduate program advancing the study of critical issues in the modern world.

Since 1971, MTL students have helped to redefine the cutting edge of many interdisciplinary fields and to reshape the ways in which disciplinary scholarship is understood and practiced. MTL graduates are leaders in such fields as American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Film Studies, Social and Cultural Studies, and Women’s Studies, as well as disciplines such as English, Cultural Anthropology, and Compa

rative Literature. The Program trains students to understand the histories and methods of disciplines and to test their assumptions. We consider how disciplines shape knowledge and, most importantly, how interdisciplinary methods reshape their objects of study. MTL students produce innovative analyses of diverse texts, forms, and practices, including those of literature, history, philosophy, anthropology, law, and science; film, visual arts, popular culture, and performance; and material culture and technology. Each student constructs a unique and rigorous program of study suited to his or her research. Students have focused on such areas as gender and sexuality; race and ethnicity; science, technology, and medicine; media and performance; legal studies; and critical and social theory. Our faculty is drawn from a range of fields in the humanities and social sciences, as well as from education, law, and medicine. As serious interdisciplinary study is impossible without a firm understanding of the disciplines under consideration, each student is expected to master the methods of one discipline and to gain a firm foundation in a second field.

Join us tomorrow, 11/10, 4PM PST, for MTL's annual Monica P. Moore Lecture! Darieck Scott will deliver a talk titled "Ke...
11/09/2022

Join us tomorrow, 11/10, 4PM PST, for MTL's annual Monica P. Moore Lecture! Darieck Scott will deliver a talk titled "Keeping It Unreal: Black q***r fantasy and superhero comics." See below for more information:

Congratulations to MTL PhD Candidates Alberto Quintero and Luke Williams for receiving 2022-2024 DARE fellowships!
10/26/2022

Congratulations to MTL PhD Candidates Alberto Quintero and Luke Williams for receiving 2022-2024 DARE fellowships!

At The Millions, a new review from MTL PhD student Namrata Verghese:
10/25/2022

At The Millions, a new review from MTL PhD student Namrata Verghese:

Sarah Thankam Mathews illuminates how much we do not understand, likely will never understand.

Congratulations to MTL second-year Michelle Ha for winning the 11th annual Korea Program Prize for Writing in Korean Stu...
10/20/2022

Congratulations to MTL second-year Michelle Ha for winning the 11th annual Korea Program Prize for Writing in Korean Studies, for her paper "Beyond Diaspora: Racial Capitalism and Empire in Kim Young-ha’s Black Flower"!

Two PhD students were awarded the 11th annual Korea Program Prize for Writing in Korean Studies for their papers.

MTL is thrilled to announce this year's Monica Moore lecture: Steven Lee (MTL PhD '08) on "Left and Right Melancholy Acr...
05/12/2022

MTL is thrilled to announce this year's Monica Moore lecture: Steven Lee (MTL PhD '08) on "Left and Right Melancholy Across the Pacific." Join us in person Thurs 5/19, 3:30-5:00 PM! Reception to follow

In the San Francisco Chronicle, a review of MTL alum Greg Sarris's new essay collection, "Becoming Story: A Journey Amon...
04/06/2022

In the San Francisco Chronicle, a review of MTL alum Greg Sarris's new essay collection, "Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors":
https://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/odn/sanfranciscochronicle/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=HSFC%2F2022%2F04%2F03&entity=Ar06600&sk=BBD853BC&mode=text #

The late, lauded conservationist Aldo Leopold famously wrote: “We can only be ethical in relation to something we can see, understand, feel, love, or otherwise have faith in.”

A profile of our Director of Graduate Studies, Tom Mullaney, in this week's Stanford News, on graphic novels as a tool f...
02/11/2022

A profile of our Director of Graduate Studies, Tom Mullaney, in this week's Stanford News, on graphic novels as a tool for teaching history:

Historical graphic novels can provide students a nuanced perspective into complex subjects in ways that are difficult, and sometimes impossible, to characterize in conventional writing and media, says Stanford historian Tom Mullaney.

New essay in Chicago Review from MTL PhD candidate Mitch Therieau:
01/28/2022

New essay in Chicago Review from MTL PhD candidate Mitch Therieau:

By Mitch Therieau

A recording of our November event with McKenzie Wark and Orlando Bentancour, "Non-politics and Non-ecologies," is now li...
01/24/2022

A recording of our November event with McKenzie Wark and Orlando Bentancour, "Non-politics and Non-ecologies," is now live on YouTube:

materia: McKenzie Wark (Media and Culture, Eugene Lang College, The New School) in conversation with Orlando Bentancor (Spanish and Latin American Cultures, ...

A recording of our December event "On Kugel and Frijoles," a public roundtable on Jewish and LatinX experiences and iden...
01/21/2022

A recording of our December event "On Kugel and Frijoles," a public roundtable on Jewish and LatinX experiences and identity today, is now live: https://bit.ly/3nIeare

Congratulations to MTL PhD candidate Alberto Quintero, who has been named a 2022 Center for Comparative Studies in Race ...
01/21/2022

Congratulations to MTL PhD candidate Alberto Quintero, who has been named a 2022 Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford Public Writing Fellow!

Alberto Quintero was born in Mexico and he is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. His research interests are in the areas of contemporary Latin American literature, poetry, and q***r theory. He is a co-founder and managing editor of Literalia, a digit...

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