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David Damrosch's "Around the World in 80 Books" (2021)

October 26, 2021

David Damrosch's Around the World in 80 Books that saw us through the pandemic last year in blog form has now turned into a book published by Penguin (USA) and Pelican (UK). Below you can find a glowing review by Peter Conrad in The Guardian and the link...

Testimonials by IWL Alumni from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

October 15, 2021

Lizy Mostowski (ABD Comparative Literature current student): “The Institute for World Literature was a rewarding experience that not only exposed me to new texts and modes of analyses helpful to my area of study; participation in the Institute also...

2020 IWL Online: Two Reports from the University of Innsbruck Participants

December 21, 2020

Want to know all about the 2020 IWL summer session? Check out the reports by Sarah Agath and Sandra Tausel, two grad students from the University of Innsbruck who participated in our 10th IWL summer session. You can download their reports here:

2020 IWL Online: A Report from OSL Participants

October 03, 2020

Want to know all about the 2020 IWL online summer session? Check out the report by Jesse van Amelsvoort (Groningen – Campus Fryslân) and Ahmed Nuri (Amsterdam) from The Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies. You can access it here: https://www...

Around the World in 80 Books

May 10, 2020

From May 11 through August 31, Covid-sequestered lovers of literature can join Harvard’s David Damrosch in a world journey through world literature, five books per week for sixteen weeks. He’ll be exploring the ways in which literature enters the world...

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...

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

July 06, 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...

(Ne)MLA, ACLA & more

September 02, 2024

MLA Modern Language Association Annual Convention Women and Emancipatory Narratives Across Media This in-person panel invites 250-word abstracts that examine women’s narratives, representations, and forms of agency within resistance movements across film...

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2019 IWL at Harvard: a report by Dr. Ariane de Waal, participant and colloquium leader

December 22, 2019

Want to know all about the 2019 IWL summer session? Check out the report by Dr. Ariane de Waal, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck and one of our participants and colloquium leaders at the 9th IWL summer session. You can download it...

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...

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

February 08, 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...

IWL at the University of Tokyo: A Report by two of our participants, Désirée Mangard and Mario Casale

January 10, 2019

Two of our 2018 participants at the University of Tokyo, Désirée Mangard (German Studies) and Mario Casale (Romance Studies) from the University of Innsbruck wrote a very informative report on our eighth summer session. You can check it out here: