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CALL FOR PAPERS: World Literature in and for Pandemic Times

February 11, 2021

Essays are invited for a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of World Literature on the theme of World Literature in and for Pandemic Times. Essays can discuss works that are set in plagues or epidemics (whether Covid-19 or earlier epidemics, real or fictional), or can discuss how we ourselves read under our current circumstances of lockdowns, widespread mortality, and the resulting social and economic disruptions. Essays can have a comparative or international focus or can take up a single work seen in its particular historical and cultural context; this special issue will...

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CfP, Journal of World Literature: Special Issue on World Literature and World Cinema

July 6, 2020

Over the past two decades, world literature and world cinema have developed separately rather than in conjunction, with little attention paid to each other despite their structurally related objects of study. Literary scholars rarely discuss films apart from occasional direct adaptations, and while world cinema has sometimes looked at the theoretical framing developed in world literature studies, as with the cartographical direction opened by Dudley Andrew’s take on Franco Moretti and David Damrosch’s work, neither discipline has thought more generally beyond its respective medium...

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JWL Special Issue for Spring 2021: Marketing World Literature: Book Fairs, Festivals, Prizes

August 29, 2019

Literary prizes and events play a growing role today in the international circulation and reception of writers and their works. Even nationally based awards such as the Pulitzer can have an international impact, while conversely the award of the Nobel Prize can have a major – and sometimes ambiguous – impact on a writer’s standing at home. Book fairs and festivals have multiplied worldwide, from Jerusalem to Jaipur, giving writers as well as their works new kinds of exposure. This special issue of JWLwill explore the sociology of such events, their cultural...

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David Damrosch talks about World Literature and more in the Harvard Magazine

August 22, 2019

Don't miss out a profile of the IWL Director, David Damrosch, by Spencer Lee Lenfield in the Harvard Magazine featured also as the lead item in the Chronicle of Higher Education's Arts section. David Damrosch talks vividly about many different topics from his intellectual trajectory and research interests throughout a career that turned from comparative to world literature, to  current books, pedagogy and the future of the discipline:

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Congratulations to Delia Ungureanu for her promotion to Associate Professor at the University of Bucharest!

February 8, 2019

Congratulations to our Assistant Director Delia Ungureanu, who has just been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at the University of Bucharest. This is a major promotion within the Romanian system and has been awarded several years ahead of the norm, following the international attention garnered by her award-winning book From Paris to Tlön, and most recently a national award as one of two leading early-career humanists in the country. Warmest congratulations to Professor Ungureanu!

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Major French literary critic Pascale Casanova dies at 59

September 30, 2018

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 ...

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IWL at the University of Copenhagen: A Report by two of our participants, Miriam Strieder and Dr. Stella Lange

IWL at the University of Copenhagen: A Report by two of our participants, Miriam Strieder and Dr. Stella Lange

February 9, 2018

Two of our 2017 participants at the University of Copenhagen, Miriam Strieder (German Department) and Dr. Stella Lange (Romance Studies) from the University of Innsbruck wrote a very informative report on our seventh summer session. You can check it out here:

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