Princeton global collaborative research fund project. Combining classic essays with littleknown pieces from across the centuries and around the world whose take on comparative literary study is especially pertinent to debates today, the princeton sourcebook in comparative literature will be an. He is the author of in the shadow of world literature. Adams sitney visual arts comparative literature esther schor english tamsen wolf english international faculty. Continues chineseinternational comparative literature bulletin.
At brown, the department of comparative literature is distinct in its conviction that literary research and instruction must be international in character, and its undergraduate and graduate programs are considered among. David damrosch is professor of english and comparative literature at columbia university and president of the american comparative literature association for 200203. Pdf on jul 26, 2007, anthony pym and others published emily apter. From the european enlightenment to the global present. With a large faculty of renowned scholars and dedicated teachers, the department offers a wide range of courses in traditional and emerging fields of literary and cultural study.
Robert schirmer professor of spanish and portuguese and comparative literature. Princeton university english, comparative literature. Welcome to the department of comparative literature. Comparative literature performs a role similar to that of the study of international relations, but works with languages and artistic traditions, so as to understand cultures from the inside.
David damrosch the princeton sourcebook in comparative. Department of comparative literature princeton university. Our courses are not confined to a single national literature but rather engage many different traditions, genres, and languages across the globe. The princeton key essays on comparative literature. Machinereadable finding aid encoded in ead 2002 by ayse gursoy on october, 2008. An official journal of the american comparative literature association. I studied classics, german, and comparative literature at harvard and oxford. The princeton sourcebook in comparative literature. Colloquium ucr department of comparative literature and. Professor esther schor professor of english and inaugural behrman professor in the council of the humanities nationhood and the national poets of israelpalestine. The princeton sourcebook in comparative literature is a wideranging anthology of classic essays and important recent statements on the. Graduates with a graduate degree in comparative literature have a multitude of options available to them. Frequency quarterly, 1979former frequency three times a year, 19741978. Carpenter ii class of 1943 professor in the humanities.
She holds a doctorate in comparative literature from princeton and was a fulbright and social science research council fellow. Applicants must be responsible for submitting writing samples in both their primary language and in english to the program. This course examines the idea of the arab, the jew, and the arabjew as represented in history, literature, and film. My research focuses on ancient greek literature and philosophy and modern intellectual history, with a particular concentration on tragedy. Core faculty comparative literature princeton university. Apply to ba comparative literature in princeton university. Find com study guides, notes, and practice tests for princeton.
Peter brooks comparative literature deborah nord english p. This is the flagship journal of comparative literature published by the association and thus sent to over 2000 subscribers but it actively seeks talented young scholars breaking new ground in the field and backs this up by refusing to rank authors in published articles by having no bio, only the university affiliation, so you dont. We will address these questions by both looking at comparative literature as a historical institution and as a site at which disciplines, methods, and positions blend and clash. The princeton sourcebook in comparative literature is a wideranging anthology of classic essays and important recent statements on the mission and methods of comparative literary studies. Belcher, department of comparative literature and center for african american studies, princeton university. Comparative literature luncheon to feature lecture by. Students in comparative literature are expected to follow either the chicago manual of style or the mla style manual for bibliographic documentation.
Overview comparative literature princeton university. Training and experience in teaching are major features of our doctoral program in comparative literature. Professor in language, literature, and civilization of spain. Comparative literature cmlt comparative literature program combines the benefits of a small department with the opportunities available at a large research university located in suburban washington, d. The princeton sourcebook in comparative literature princeton.
They must be submitted in pdf format, signed, and forwarded to the following address. Comparative literature princeton university course hero. Before coming to princeton in 2015, i held a research fellowship at cambridge, and taught at yale for three years. Comparative literature study and teaching directories.
Princeton university comparative literature academia. Sites of reading in colonial egypt princeton 2016, cowinner of the mla prize for a first book and of articles in venues such as pmla, modernismmodernity, comparative literature studies, early popular visual culture, the international journal of middle east studies, and the journal of. The main theme of winter colloquium 20 will be our shared mission of teaching. The comparative literature reading selection list assists majors in reading historically important texts across literary genres. Michael allan department of comparative literature. The student will ordinarily work under the close supervision of a member of the comparative literature faculty.
It revisits the interdisciplinary scholarship around jews and arabs since the 1990s in order to reassess past and current approaches and to assist students with their own research agendas. The department of comparative literature offers the degree of doctor of philosophy in cooperation with the other departments of literature. Comparative literature is the study of literature and other cultural expressions across linguistic and cultural boundaries. Africana periodical literature, african womens literature, women travelers, explorers and missionaries to africa, ajol, and the library of congresss quarterly index of african periodical literature. Professor rigolots primary interests involve the transition from the middle ages to the early modern period. Egyptian translation highlights the beauty of hieroglyphs. Comparative literature is the laboratory or workshop of literary studies, and through them, of the humanities. A new comparative literature find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Department of rare books and special collections princeton. He worked first in nineteenth century studies, particularly on the novel and the history of literary ideas and then developed interests in postwar.
David damrosch is professor of english and comparative literature at columbia university and a past president of the american comparative literature association. She taught literature and language in the yale english and german depts. The english, comparative literature department at princeton university on academia. Dame gillian beer cambridge, english roberto bigazzi university of siena, italian helena buescu university of lisbon, comparative literature. How does comparative literature relate to a globalized world with its many cultures, languages, and literatures. The department of comparative literature invites students to approach literature from a broad, crosscultural perspective. I was trained in the united states and europe as a comparatist and a classicist. The curriculum in comparative literature has two major objectives.
Classics, european history, comparative literature keywords. Comparative literature performs a role similar to that of the study of international relations, but works with languages and artistic traditions, so as to understand. Comparative literature compares literatures, not only as accumulations of primary works, but as the languages, cultures, histories, traditions, theories, and practices with which those works come. Michael lucey specializes in french literature and culture of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twentyfirst centuries. Comparative literature chinese and western periodicals. Comparative literature at brown comparative literature. Professor of french and comparative literature at new york university. Comparative literature at princeton invites students both to read texts closely and to think about the nature, function, and value of literature within a broad context. Our courses are not confined to a single national literature but rather engage many different traditions, genres, and. The book traces the history of philology and comparative literature in the twentieth century, language wars, the effect of translation on world literature, and. Graduate guide to study comparative literature princeton. The program of study enables students with exceptional training in languages and literatures to profit from the increased awareness and understanding that may be derived from the consideration of more than one literature and of the.
Candidate in comparative literature sheera talpaz ph. He also teaches regularly about nineteenth and twentiethcentury british and american literature and culture, the novel in particular. He taught at cornell and the university of toronto before coming to princeton in 2002. In the context of globalization and multiculturalism, neither of which is new but which have intensified and diversified in the past half century or so, it is perhaps strange that comparative literature and even world literature are in crisis or under pressure. Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries.
Ruben gallo spanish and portuguese princeton university. And the princeton sourcebook in comparative literature is scrupulously well organized and edited, with concise, informative biographical introductions that reveal the kinds of negotiations of language, national identity, and struggle that are at the heart of the discipline. Reading selection list comparative literature princeton university. Our department trains students to explore across languages and cultures. Free index to articles on a wide range of topics relating to all countries in africa. This book attempts to redefine the academic discipline of comparative literature in terms of translation, deemed to have become a key factor in the post911 world.
In the case that a language is not offered at princeton, the student may arrange a. This course introduces comparative literature as a subject and a discipline, traces its history and development, and focuses on some basic methods which help to affiliate languages, literatures and cultures as part of a wider system of knowledge. While some end up, predictably, in editorial positions or as writers, professors or translators, many can be found in the u. Comparative literature classics majors are expected to study latin and greek. Review of the princeton sourcebook in comparative literature.
Students have access to such university resources as the rare books and special collections of mckeldin library, the program for africa and africa in the americas, the womens studies graduate certificate program. Pdf the princeton sourcebook in comparative literature. Foreign service, international relations, tourism and international business. Faculty spanish and portuguese princeton university. A new comparative literature, the princeton sourcebook in. Maria dibattista, charles barnwell straut class of 1923 professor of english, professor of english and comparative literature. He is the editor of the longman anthology of world literature.
Comparative literature at princeton invites students both to read texts closely and to think about the. The curriculum encompasses literatures, languages, and cultures from around the worldincluding those of europe, the americas, africa, asia, and the middle eastas well as interdisciplinary work of many types. David damrosch the princeton sourcebook in comparative literature. A new comparative literature, looks to the foundational method of philology in order to treat important contemporary themes of translation studies. Courses offered by the department of comparative literature are listed under the subject code complit on the stanford bulletins explorecourses web site the department of comparative literature offers courses in the history and theory of literature through comparative approaches. Majors in comparative literature are not engaged in an isolated or esoteric activity, but. Reprinted in trade liberalization, the international library of critical writings in economics, edited by romain wacziarg, cheltenham.
At princeton, he teaches courses on freud, the avantgarde, and other aspects of twentiethcentury culture. If you are an undergraduate with creative international interests, you will find an intellectual home in the department of comparative literature. Emily apter was educated at harvard and princeton universities. His books include the narrative covenant, we scholars, and meetings of the mind princeton. Ultimately, the translation zone maintains that a new comparative literature must take stock of the political impact of translation technologies on the definition of foreign or symbolic languages in the humanities, while recognizing the complexity of language politics in a world at once more monolingual and more multilingual. Department of comparative literature lecture professor william chad wellmon university of virginia. At brown, the department of comparative literature is distinct in its conviction that literary research and instruction must be international in character, and its undergraduate and graduate programs are considered among the finest in the country. Undergraduate study approaches literature from a broad, crosscultural perspective. Faculty members offer courses embracing the ancient and modern periods of world literature, exploring critical, theoretical, and historical issues. A native of france, professor rigolot earned his ph. Most of the sessions will be panel presentations by our own teaching staff, from tas to full professors, on various aspects of teaching, notably including the initiatives our department has taken to create core courses cplt 1, 2, and 193 for our undergraduates. Her scholarship examines the intersection between turkish and turkishgerman literary and cultural studies, and her current project focuses on the troubled relationship between incarceration and democracy in the turkish. The department of english and comparative literature has played a significant role in the history of literary study in the united states and abroad since its inception.
Princeton adjusts to teaching and learning dance, chemistry, and more online professors described students as shellshocked and highly stressed, but also relieved to be together online. English and comparative literature columbia graduate. Comparative literature lecture princeton university. From the european enlightenment to the global present translationtransnation david damrosch. Comparative literature does accept electronically submitted letters. Discover the best homework help resource for comparative literature at princeton university. Professor of german at yale in 1984, she was recruited the same year to join the dept.
Eckermann 4 from the birth of tragedy 1872 u friedrich nietzsche 5 present tasks of comparative literature 1877 4i hugo meltzl 6 the comparative method and literature 1886 so hutcheson macaulay posnett. Independent work comparative literature princeton university. Comparative literature princeton university library. The curriculum encompasses literatures, languages, and cultures from. Procedures for admission lsu comparative literature. Katie trumpener department of comparative literature. From the european enlightenment to the global present find, read and cite all the. Rene wellek centre for comparative literature, university of toronto. Originally titled thinking in the humanities when it was delivered as a lecture at princeton to the department of modern languages and literatures, it became. In the englishspeaking world this may have to do with the socalled triumph of english. Pdf on jun 1, 20, kitty millet and others published the princeton sourcebook in comparative literature. The romantic novel and the british empire princeton university press, 1997 used a comparative approach to english literature, tracing how literary forms developed in ireland and scotland shaped the early literary life of canada and other british settler colonies.
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