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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...

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

February 09, 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...

IWL at Harvard: A Report by two of our participants, Laura Fuchs-Eisner and Monika Raic

December 20, 2016

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...

2016 IWL, Harvard: Homi Bhabha's Keynote Lecture, and David Damrosch's and Gisèle Sapiro's Plenary Talks Now on Video!

August 08, 2016

Homi Bhabha's Keynote Lecture, and David Damrosch's and Gisèle Sapiro's plenary talks are now available on video here. Don't miss Homi Bhabha's discussion of redefining the body and rewriting history through a new concept inspired by Benjamin's smallness...

2016 IWL Lectures: Open to the Public

June 07, 2016

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...

IWL in Lisbon: A Report by Carmen Rainer and Katharina Walter

November 08, 2015

Two of our 2015 participants in Lisbon, Carmer Rainer, PhD candidate, and Dr. Katharina Walter from the University of Innsbruck wrote a very informative account on our Lisbon session. You can check it out here: http://www.uibk.ac.at/fakultaeten...

Brill's Journal of World Literature

November 07, 2015

http://www.brill.com/products/journal/journal-world-literature As world literature becomes increasingly important in the Humanities curriculum and the academia in a globalizing world, the Journal of World Literature aims at bringing together scholars all...

IWL Returns to Harvard in 2016

September 17, 2015

Following our inaugural sessions in Beijing (2011), Istanbul (2012), Harvard (2013), Hong Kong (2014), and Lisbon (2015), the Institute invites you once again at Harvard, for a four-week session of seminars and lectures on the theory and practice of world...

Ana Luísa Amaral's Guest Lecture at 2015 IWL, University of Lisbon

August 16, 2015

Ana Luísa Amaral, poet and professor of literature at the University of Porto, presented her IWL guest lecture “Tunes, and Other Matters (like Potatoes): Talking about Poetry and Life” on June 29th, at the University of Lisbon as part of our fifth summer...

Héctor Hoyos' Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel

July 27, 2015

H éc tor Hoyos, Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature at Stanford University has recently published his book Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel (Columbia UP, 2015), whose focus on world literature crystallized during H éctor's month...

Professor Krishan Kumar's IWL Lecture in TLS

October 17, 2014

Check out Professor Krishan Kumar's article "The Return of Arnold Toynbee" in the Times Lite rary Supplement based on the lecture he gave this summer at the 2014 IWL in Hong Kong, "Civilization as a Concept for Global Analysis: The Example of Arnold...

2015 IWL Flyer

October 02, 2014

We are ready to sail on our fifth adventure to Lisbon in 2015! Check out our amazing offer of thirteen two-week seminars taught by l eading names in world literary studies: Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh Helena Buescu, University of Lisbon Thomas...