This anthology comprises of three comprehensive collections that provide samples of literature from around the world and across the ages, ranging from some of oldest tales that have survived into ...

Professor of Global French Studies, Laurel H. Turk Professor of Modern Languages, Coordinator of World Literature With a long, intricate history, the dissemination and propagation of literature and ...

The Program in World Literatures (formerly comparative literature) enables students to learn languages and engage with at least two literary and cultural traditions studied in their original languages ...

Recently, whenever I reference the titles of literary classics in my English courses, I am usually met with blank stares.

A world literature class may be the first place that some students have encountered European works, let alone non-Western texts. The emphasis in this anthology, therefore, is on non-Western and ...

What is it to read comparatively across languages, disciplines, and media? How does Comparative Literature relate to a globalized world with its many cultures, languages, and literatures? What is the ...

Timothy Shanahan, who sat on the 2000 National Reading Panel and later helped develop the concept of disciplinary literacy, ...

Bastille's new album, '&,' is one of the albums of the year. A literate work that harkens back to the days of The Who ...

For as long as we have been alive, Jews have been known as the People of the Book, both admiringly and dismissively. Critical ...

Some of the world’s leading writers have decided that the best way to change Israelis’ minds is to refuse to talk to them.

Award-winning translator Brother Anthony ponders Nobel Prize hype and the complexities of translating Korean poems and novels ...

The World Literature interdisciplinary major teaches students to recognize, consider and understand translation as a fundamental part of knowledge. Students are expected to develop a critical ...