Taking on the globe’s output of literature is a difficult task, but one that David Damrosch exhorts scholars to attempt. In What Is World Literature? (Princeton University Press), the professor of ...

This introductory course focuses on the cultural syncretism and the global diversity of Jewish experience. It provides a comparative understanding of Jewish culture from antiquity to the present, ...

Zrinka Stahuljak’s comparative literature course next quarter will cover much of the same subject matter she has taught in years past: a sweeping survey of writing from the Middle Ages to the 17th ...