Comparative Literature Master’s program at Indiana University-Bloomington

Founded in 1949, Indiana University Comparative Literature is one of the oldest and most comprehensive in the United States. We have pioneered developments that have helped to move the discipline beyond its origins in European literary and intellectual traditions, and, with the cooperation of colleagues in other departments and programs, we now stand at the crossroads of the humanities, providing our students with a rich and illuminating range of approaches to literary study.

Spring 2017 our graduate student Melissa Suba Sokolski won the Matias L. Ochoada Fellowship.

Applications to our graduate program are currently being accepted for Fall admission. Priority Deadline is January 15.

The Modern Languages Association has just announced the creation of the Matei Calinescu Prize for a distinguished work of scholarship in twentieth or twenty-first-century literature and thought. The prize, which consists of a cash award and a certificate, will be presented to the winning author at the MLA annual convention in Philadelphia in January 2017.

The endowed prize has been established in honor of Matei Calinescu (1934–2009), Professor of Comparative Literature and West European Studies at Indiana University.

This is the second time Bill Johnston has claimed the award.

Willis Barnstone is one of America’s most prolific and highly regarded translators and poets. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University.

The Comparative Literature is honored to Present The Wertheim Lecture in Comparative Drama.

Professor Oana Panaïté, also in our department, is a collaborator on this important enrichment opportunity for twenty-five college and university professors. The other team members are Professors James Ogude (Research Fellow, University of Pretoria, South Africa), Akin Adesokan ( Comparative Literature and the Media School, IUB), and Grace Musila (English, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa).

Come to a brief talk, poetry reading and book launch of the first paperback edition!!! Eugenio Montale, the Fascist Storm, and the Jewish Sunflower uncovers one of the great hidden sagas of modern literature. During Italy’s fascist period, Eugenio Montale winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the greatest modern poets in any language fell in love with Irma Brandeis, a glamorous and beautiful Dante scholar and an American Jew. While their romance would fall apart, it would have literary repercussions that extended throughout the poet’s career: Montale’s works abound with secret codes that speak to a lost lover and muse. This study is the first to completely unlock the cryptic thematic link that connects many of Montale’s most important poems. Author David Michael Hertz is professor and chair of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. Where and When: The Venue Gallery, 114 S. You can visit the following link for free parking options near The Venue.

34th Annual Northern California Book Awards celebrate writers, readers, and publishers of Northern California. Authors will be honored in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation, and Children’s Literature, with brief celebratory readings and remarks by the winning authors, a lively reception with book signing follows, all free and open to the public Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented toWillis Barnstone, poet, scholar, and translator of the moderns and ancients, author or editor of than seventy books over six decades of publishing. The NCBAs are presented by Northern California Book Reviewers, an association of book reviewers and book review editors, Poetry Flash, Center for the Art of Translation, San Francisco Public Library and the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, PEN West, Women’s National Book Association-SF Chapter, and Mechanics’ Institute Library. Nominees will be posted in early April. Winners will be announced at the Awards ceremonyMay 03, 2015 at San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin St, San Francisco CA.

Graduate Conference 10-11 April 2015 Bloomington, Indiana University.

A missed connection is an attempt to reach out to a stranger whom one has encountered in the past, often with the hope of establishing an emotional or physical contact. At its core is a search for a new beginning or, at least, the potential of a closure. Literature offers countless examples of missed connections: desperate lovers and failed revenge, comedies of errors and Kafkaesque scenarios, cultural gaps, open endings and unfinished novels. These unfulfilled encounters are never concretized, yet they can be sources of inspiration for writers for whom absence is a productive condition. In media today, missed connections are manifestations of society’s struggles with language and failures of communication. Different forms of ads or in newspapers, offer the opportunity to amend the loss of an initial personal contact by mediating desires through a third party entity. The phrase ‘missed connections’ thus embodies a paradox because it contains both an original unfulfilled communication and the potential remedy for this absence through textualization. In a world where communication is facilitated through mediation, what kind of connection is missed and what kind is re-created This conference seeks to provide allegorical understandings of the concept within culture. We want to start from the initial paradox of the missed connection as simultaneous presence and absence to investigate the interactions between the norms and the margins. In this global world, how do we negotiate our identities in the structures of language and society Comparative Literature has always been the third party that connects texts and cultures together across time, space, and language, thus destabilizing notions of cultural hegemony, canons and authorship. We want to encourage interdisciplinary and global approaches to the field of Comparative Literature. We welcome proposals from a variety of disciplines including, but not limited to: Literary Studies, Film and Media Studies, Gender Studies, Translation Studies, Jewish Studies, Linguistics, Critical Race Studies, Religious Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Cognitive Science. Suggested themes for our discussion:.

The winner of Transatlantyk Prize for 2014 was named Bill Johnston, an outstanding translator of Polish literature into English, an ambassador for Polish culture and language, and a professor of comparative literature at Indiana University in the USA, where he directed the Polish Studies Center for many years.

The Transatlantyk is a Book Institute Award for outstanding ambassadors of Polish literature abroad. Its aim is to promote Polish literature in the world, and to integrate the communities of those working to promote Polish literature (translators, literary critics, literary historians, cultural animators).

Eugenio Montale, the Fascist Storm, and the Jewish Sunflower covers one of the great hidden sagas of modern literature. During Italy’s fascist period, Eugenio Montale winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the greatest modern poets in any language fell in love with Irma Brandeis, a glamorous and beautiful Dante scholar and an American Jew. While their romance would fall apart, it would have literary repercussions that extended throughout the poet’s career: Montale’s works abound with secret codes that speak to a lost lover and muse.Image and description courtesy of University of Toronto Press.