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Héctor Hoyos' Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel

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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...

The many worlds of world literature

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The Institute for World Literature marks my initiation into the many worlds of world literature. Joining this Harvard summer program in 2016 was one of my smartest decisions. Before joining, world literature was just an exciting term I briefly encountered...

July 16-26

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David Damrosch, "Globalization and Its Discontents" This seminar will trace the problematic of global world literature over the course of the modern period, looking at the rise of capitalist markets, the shifting of centers, peripheries, and semi...

IWL Executive Committee Member, Professor Mitsuyoshi Numano, laureate of the Tsubouchi Shoyo Grand Prize

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We are delighted to announce that our IWL Executive Committee Member, Professor Mitsuyoshi Numano , has been awarded the 10th Tsubouchi Shoyo Grand Prize sponsored by Waseda University on December 1, 2025. Tsubouchi Shoyo was a figure who laid the...

"Annie Ernaux, ethnographer of symbolic violence" by Gisèle Sapiro

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The 2022 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded for the first time to a French female author: Annie Ernaux. Since her first novel, Les Armoires vides (1974 / Cleaned Out 1990), Annie Ernaux has explored forms of symbolic violence that are experienced...

The IWL Experience

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Ella Elbaz was one of our 2013 participants last year at Harvard. Check out here her assessment of what IWL meant in her academic career.

The 2014 IWL Hong Kong Experience

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Check out an account about the 2014 IWL experience at City University of Hong Kong by one of our 2014 participants, Dr. Heidi Huang Yu from Hong Kong Baptist University: http://buhk.me/2014/09/08/world-literature/

2020 IWL Online: A Report from OSL Participants

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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...

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

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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...

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

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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:

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

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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...

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

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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: