We are very pleased to share the latest book, The Socialist Side of World Literature, published by former Harvard Comparative Literature Visiting Scholar and current Non-Resident Fellow of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Yanli He, as well as her previous books.
Interested in complit? The spring 2025 course catalog is now live! View the full list of courses on our website: https://complit.fas.harvard.edu/courses/. Video introductions from our faculty available here: https://complit.fas.harvard.edu/videos/.
Paraphrasis is brought to you by a team of graduate students in our very own Department of Comparative Literature, and the podcast is now available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and on our Substack. This season will feature interviews with Kareem Abdulrahman, Daniel Hahn, Sean Gasper Bye, Luke Leafgren, and Anne Fisher, as well as conversations with emerging translators working from languages such as Indonesian, Urdu, and Polish. With new interviews or bonus episodes coming out every two weeks, make sure to click the subscribe button to receive regular updates about the show in our newsletter.
In our pilot episode, we speak with one of our producers, Lara Norgaard, to learn about her Indonesian to English translation of the genre-bending crime thriller, 24 Hours with Gaspar (Seagull Books). Lara recalls her first, fateful meeting with Sabda Armandio in a Jakarta coffee shop, as well as her process of conveying the humorous and horrifying word play and web of references that make this novel pop.
#harvardcomplit #podcast #ParaphrasisPodcast
Spring 2024: CompLit 200/ROM-STD 200: Computing Fantasy: Imagination, Invention, Radical Pedagogy (Munari / Rodari / Calvino) with Professor Jeffrey Schnapp
See course video here: /manage/videos/879819112
The Department of Comparative Literature seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in comparative literature whose research falls within the broadly defined domain of media history, theory, and archeology. Candidates should be anchored in the literary disciplines and work in at least one non-anglophone cultural tradition, while pursuing modes of inquiry that engage the history and theory of media and communications in depth and in breadth. The ideal candidate will combine a broad understanding of media history with specialization in a subfield such as epigraphy, paleography, codicology, the history of the book, oral performance and recitation, sound studies, broadcast media, digital textuality, or computational media. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2024. Teaching duties will include four courses a year at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Basic Qualifications
Applicants must have received the PhD or equivalent degree or show clear evidence of planned receipt of the degree by the beginning of employment. International applicants are welcome.
Additional Qualifications
We particularly welcome candidates who pursue the innovative and/or public-facing in their methods, objects of study, or modes of scholarship and teaching, and who are pushing the boundaries of media history and archeology as a discipline, whether from the standpoint of language, geography, or methodology.
For more information go to: https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12719
This year, we have a lot to celebrate, as we will have our first Commencement Celebrations in person in two years. All graduating undergraduate and graduate students as well as their families are cordially invited to our Comp Lit Graduating Reception. And we also welcome back our graduates from 2020 and 2021 to join us on May 25th if they are in town, as well as for a special 2020/2021 Commencement reception on May 29th! #harvardcomplit #commencement
You are cordially invited to celebrate the end of the Academic Year and the arrival of Spring with us on May 3rd at 5 pm at the Dana-Palmer House! All are welcome!
