Events

Justin Torres’ latest book Blackouts received the 2023 National Book Award for fiction and was called a “shimmering, fable-like novel” by The Washington Post. Filled with tales-within-tales, redacted pages, illustrations and photographs, Torres excavates the devastating history of the 1941 report Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns, imaginatively exposing stories that had previously been...

Please join us for a practice job talk by Arielle Stambler at 3:00 pm on Tuesday, January 16th in Kaplan 193. The title of Arielle's talk is: The Social Rights Imaginary of the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel.

Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain

Monica Youn’s most recent volume is FROM FROM, a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award. Among her many honors are the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. An associate professor of English at UC Irvine, she is a former...

Segue Reading Series @ Artists Space Lee Ann Brown Brian Kim Stefans Saturday, January 27, 2024 2 pm PST / 5 pm EST Zoom Webinar ID: 893 9594 7519 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89395947519 11 Cortlandt Alley South of Canal between Lafayette & Broadway

Department of Comparative Literature Event