Kevin Lambert’s last novel, Querelle of Roberval, ended with infanticide, necrophilia, cannibalism, and the ritualistic, ...

The Royal Society of Literature no longer seems to be interested ... But it speaks to a wider crisis within the publishing ...

The Program in World Literatures (formerly comparative literature) enables students to learn languages and engage with at least two literary and cultural traditions studied in their original languages ...

Books by Louise Erdrich, Jesmyn Ward and others have interrogated the boundaries meant to contain us.

Professor of Global French Studies, Laurel H. Turk Professor of Modern Languages, Coordinator of World Literature With a long, intricate history, the dissemination and propagation of literature and ...

Computerized large language models (LLMs) are making inroads into the realm of literature. Their ability to generate coherent ...

What is it to read comparatively across languages, disciplines, and media? How does Comparative Literature relate to a globalized world with its many cultures, languages, and literatures? What is the ...

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This series provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or genre and cumulatively forms a substantial library of ...

A world literature class may be the first place that some students have encountered European works, let alone non-Western texts. The emphasis in this anthology, therefore, is on non-Western and ...

This anthology comprises of three comprehensive collections that provide samples of literature from around the world and across the ages, ranging from some of oldest tales that have survived into ...

As we try to gauge Adam Mickiewicz’s impact on world literature, here’s a look at some truly odd and fascinating cases of Mickiewicz’s posthumous international influence on authors and literature – ...