2026 Faculty

The 17th IWL will meet at Hangzhou Normal University (HZNU) in Zhejiang, China from June 28 through July 22, 2027. Our four-week program includes a total of twelve two-week seminars taught by leading names in world literature today, together with outstanding guest lectures and the opportunity for participants to share their work in colloquia. Our participants will have the chance to examine critically the latest challenges of this comprehensive and rapidly developing field, from its theoretical concepts and the history of the discipline to its forms of practice today embedded in a world market.

In addition to attending seminars, our participants will give a paper or present a work in progress or a recent project within one of our eight colloquia organized around broad themes: Politics, Poetics and World Literature, Postcolonialism and World Literature, Premodern Literature and World Literature, Sociology and World Literature, World Literature and Production,
World Literature and Translation, World Literature and Circulation, World Cinema and World Literature, and including as of this year the Balzan Colloquium. Meeting once each week with their peers under the leadership of one of our postdoc or faculty participants, they have the opportunity to share their work and receive valuable feedback from scholars all over the world working on similar topics, and develop new projects including future ACLA seminars.