French literary critic Pascale Casanova died on September 29, 2018, at the age of 59. During the past ten years, she has been courageously fighting an incurable disease while publishing two fresh books. Her work represents a major contribution to the field of world literature. Based on her PhD dissertation supervised by Pierre Bourdieu, Casanova’s La République mondiale des lettres ...

Two of our 2016 participants at Harvard, Laura Fuchs-Eisner, Doctoral candidate, Romance studies and ÖAW DOC-Fellow, and Monika Raič, Doctoral candidate, Comparative Literature from the University of Innsbruck wrote a very informative account on our sixth summer session. You can check it out here:

The sixth Institute for World Literature meets between June 20 -- July 14, 2016 at Harvard. The plenary lectures by our IWL faculty, the Keynote Lecture by Homi Bhabha, as well as the panel sessions are open to the public:

Keynote Lecture, Harvard-Yenching Auditorium, 4:30-6:00pm

July 6: Homi Bhabha (Harvard), “The Internal Emigrant: or, Who Is at Home in the Humanities?”       

Plenary Lectures:...