Seminars

Latin American Cosmopolitanisms: Vernacular, Ethical, and Ecological Views of Globality

Organizer: Marco Ramirez

The question of cosmopolitanism has been crucial to the literatures of Latin America during the 20th and 21st centuries. At the turn of the past century modernistas and vanguardistas... more

Comparative Women’s Poetries and Poetics: In Search of Transnational Interrelations in Women Poets’ and Critics’ Work

Organizer: Esther Sanchez-Pardo

The ever growing recognition of women poets across the globe through their inclusion in recent literary anthologies and histories, as well as in textbooks and syllabi, in addition to the scholarship... more

The Face and/in World Literature

Organizer: Anca Parvulescu

This seminar brings together scholars working in a range of fields to frame a comparative literary history of the face. From Chaucer through to the contemporary global novel, the seminar considers... more

Where do we go from here? New Directions in the Latin American and LatinX contemporary Bildungsroman.

Organizer: Norman Valencia

Contemporary Latin American Bildungsromane seem to be pointing in odd directions. The 2014 novel 98 segundos sin sombra ends with the young protagonist on her way to one of Jupiter’s moons; the film... more

(Dis)Trust in Stories: Unreliable Narration across Media in the Information Age

Organizer: Inge van de Ven

Since the term ‘unreliable narrator’ was first coined by Wayne C. Booth in 1961, narratology has developed an elaborate conceptual instrument for the analysis of deception in narratives across media... more

Comics Materialities: towards new possibilities of reading, looking, and feeling

Organizer: Shiamin Kwa

Almost thirty years after Art Spiegelman’s MAUS, comics, or “graphic novels,” have established themselves in university teaching and scholarship. Despite the much-touted interdisciplinary potential... more

Beyond the Anglophone: Cross-cultural Adaptations, Translations, and Textualities between India and Europe, 1500-2000

Organizer: Suddhaseel Sen

We invite proposals for a panel at the ACLA titled “Beyond the Anglophone: Cross-cultural Adaptations, Translations, and Textualities between India and Europe, 1500-2000.” This panel focuses on non-... more

An Ecocritical Analysis of the Affinities between the Roar and Ormanların Gümbürtüsü

Organizer: Bengi Cakmak

The seminar I propose for this year's annual meeting concerns an ecocritical study building upon the semantic connections between the word roar, in the context of referring to the more-than-human... more

Socially Necessary Labor Time and the Future of Realism

Organizer: Paul Nadal

If, as the literary critic Erich Auerbach argues, “the nineteenth century was the first age to attempt to represent human beings in the full range of their everyday reality,” then the history of... more

The Project of Critique

Organizer: Joe Hughes

This seminar invites historically and philosophically informed contributions addressing the ongoing vitality of critique. One of the striking features of contemporary debates about method is the... more

Catastrophes in Literature and Art

Organizer: Alexandra Schamel

Our recent times have seen different kinds of global crises: the pandemia, political aggression and war, natural disasters and earlier: 9/11, and terror threat in the public sphere. The catastrophic... more

Excavating the Deccan: An archive of 20th century imaginaries

Organizer: Yamini Krishna C

Prompted by the increasing and widespread concerns about the state of democracy in India and the occasion of the 75th year of Indian independence, this seminar revisits a formative phase in the life... more

Rethinking Europe in the Contemporary Novel: Between the Regional and the Global

Organizer: Neus Rotger

The idea of Europe as a cultural project has been in crisis since its inception. In the last twenty years, postcolonial and global approaches to literature and culture have accounted for this crisis... more

The Transition of Chinese Women from 1900ws to the 1940s: A Comparative Study of Pearl Buck's East Wind: West Wind and Su Qing's Ten Years of Marriage

Organizer: Yishan Jiang

This paper aims to shed light on the 1930s and 1940s Chinese woman’s writings to show the transition of women’s paradigms in the early twentieth century. Through comparing Western writer Pearl Buck’s... more

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Seminars

Latin American Cosmopolitanisms: Vernacular, Ethical, and Ecological Views of Globality

Comparative Women’s Poetries and Poetics: In Search of Transnational Interrelations in Women Poets’ and Critics’ Work

The Face and/in World Literature

Where do we go from here? New Directions in the Latin American and LatinX contemporary Bildungsroman.

(Dis)Trust in Stories: Unreliable Narration across Media in the Information Age

Comics Materialities: towards new possibilities of reading, looking, and feeling

Beyond the Anglophone: Cross-cultural Adaptations, Translations, and Textualities between India and Europe, 1500-2000

An Ecocritical Analysis of the Affinities between the Roar and Ormanların Gümbürtüsü

Socially Necessary Labor Time and the Future of Realism

The Project of Critique

Catastrophes in Literature and Art

Excavating the Deccan: An archive of 20th century imaginaries

Rethinking Europe in the Contemporary Novel: Between the Regional and the Global

The Transition of Chinese Women from 1900ws to the 1940s: A Comparative Study of Pearl Buck's East Wind: West Wind and Su Qing's Ten Years of Marriage

Humility and/or Critique

Philology of the Gross: Comparative Perspectives

Poetry and Song

Le rôle de la traduction dans les transferts culturels. Traduire l’érotisme : de Baudelaire à Alâtî

Presentness and Grace

What Is an “I”?: Enunciation and Its Political Displacements

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