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Skip to main content Comparative Literature The University of Chicago Secondary Menu Calendar Contact search menu Search Search Main navigation About Publications by Our Faculty Support Comparative Literature Contact People Core Faculty Graduate Students Resource Faculty Emeritus Faculty Alumni Staff Graduate Program Admissions Funding Courses Workshops Career Undergraduate Program Courses Study Abroad News & Events Lecture Series Calendar Resources UChicago Resources Secondary Menu Calendar Contact Home Comparative literature Comparative Literature News Ana Ilievska has won the Society for Pirandello Studies postgraduate essay competition for her essay “’two legs, a torso, and, on top, a machine…’ A Posthuman Reading of Pirandello’s Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio .” which will be published in the forthcoming edition of Pirandello Studies 40. (January 2020) Hoda El Shakry has published her book The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb (Fordham University Press, 2019). The book mobilizes the Qurʾan’s formal, narrative, and rhetorical qualities— alongside embodied and hermeneutical forms of Qurʾanic pedagogy — to theorize Maghrebi literature across Arabic and Francophone traditions. (November 2019) Mark Payne has been named the Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Departments of Classics, Comparative Literature, the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and the College. ( December 2019) Rachel Galvin and co-editor Harris Feinsod have been named finalists in the National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose for their book, Decals a bracing translation of Oliverio Girondo’s first two published books of poetry. (September 2019) Na'ama Rokem has been awarded a Humanities Council Faculty Research Grant. (August 2019) Related The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb | Fordham Press Twenty-three UChicago faculty receive named, distinguished service professorships | The Chicago Maroon The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Shortlist for the 2019 National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose Comparative Literature at UChicago The Department of Comparative Literature promotes the multidisciplinary, historically self-reflective and cross-cultural study of texts, traditions, and discourses. One of the earliest programs of its kind in America, Comparative Literature at Chicago continues to be inspired by the same spirit of thinking globally and transhistorically that prompted the University to establish the first core course in non-Western cultures, to welcome eminent comparatists including Hannah Arendt, Arnaldo Momigliano, Mircea Eliade, Paul Ricoeur, and Jean-Luc Marion. Comparative Literature students have benefited from the Critical Inquiry Professorship, and have thus been able to take courses with such scholars as Jacques Rancière, Ian Hacking, Slavoj Žižek, Stanley Cavell, Julia Kristeva, and Frederic Jameson. The Department has also helped to support such prominent journals as Modern Philology , Classical Philology , Critical Inquiry , Theatre Journal , Journal of Religion , Journal of Near Eastern Studies , and Opera Quarterly . The Comparative Literature Department's global and historical reach is reflected in the range of faculty research interests. The department boasts scholars of international reputation in literary theory, literature and philosophy, translation, world poetry and poetics, classical traditions (Eastern and Western) and their afterlives, Renaissance literature, modern drama, film and cultural policy. Our department offers students the opportunity to grapple in a rigorous way with the most pressing issues in literary studies today: the questioning of national and cultural boundaries and identities; the struggle over literature's epistemological, ethical, or social authority; the debate about what counts as literature, and why; and the interaction between literature and other cultural or intellectual practices. Comparative Literature Division of the Humanities Department of Comparative Literature 1010 East 59th Street, Classics 116 Chicago, IL 60637 Email the Comp Lit Office at isagor@uchicago.edu Phone (773) 702-8486 Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram Quick Links Privacy Notice...