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Queen Mary researcher translates Marquis de Sade novel into English for the first time

Dr Will McMorran, a world-leading expert on the Marquis de Sade at Queen Mary University of London has translated the infamous author’s The Marquise de Gange into English for the very first time for Oxford World’s Classics. Full story here

Date added: Thursday, September 30, 2021


Ground-breaking narrative in business report published

A new report reveals how prominent business leaders see arts and humanities skills as integral to their companies and the talent pipeline.  

Date added: Tuesday, June 22, 2021


New MA Bursary in French Studies at QMUL's School of Linguistics, Languages and Film

The School of Languages, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary, University of London is happy to announce the Jill Forbes MA Bursary for students in Comparative Literature with French OR Film Studies with French.

Date added: Thursday, April 13, 2017


Comparative Literature Research Seminar

Anastasia Koro and Julian Koch, both PhD students at QMUL's Comparative Literature department, will present at the next departmental research seminar Anastasia Koro (QMUL): Theory of form in Russian avant-garde literary and visual cultureJulian Koch (QMUL): More than Imaginary: Schelling’s Einbildung as Untranslatable 29 March 2017 | 3.30 – 5.30 pm George Steiner Seminar Room, Lock-keeper’s Cottage Everyone is welcome to join us for the talk and tea & biscuits

Date added: Wednesday, March 29, 2017


Professor Galin Tihanov delivers his inaugural lecture 'World Literature as a Construct: Spaces of Dissent'

The event took place on 21 March 2017, at 6.30 pm, at the Skeel Lecture, The People's Palace

Date added: Wednesday, March 22, 2017


Professor Kiera Vaclavik presents at the School of Advanced Study: ‘Turning Your Research Into an Exhibition’

For further information, vitit the talking humanities blog.

Date added: Wednesday, March 22, 2017


Professor Aamir A. Mufti delivers this year's George Steiner Lecture: 'Strangers in Europe: Migrant, Terrorist, Refugee'

QMUL's Comparative Literature department is delighted to welcome Professor Aamar R. Mufti as speaker this year. He will address the migration crisis in Europe, in a lecture entitled “Strangers in Europa: Migrant, Terrorist, Refugee”. Aamir R. Mufti is Professor of Comparative Literature at UCLA, and among his current projects are books concerning exile and criticism, the colonial reinvention of Islamic orthodoxy, and the migration crisis of the European project.

Date added: Wednesday, March 29, 2017


QMUL Engagement and Enterprise Awards 2017: Will McMorran wins Best Opinion/Comment Piece Award

Will McMorran was recognised for the articles in the media relating to his co-translation of the Marquis de Sade's "The 120 Days of Sodom".

Date added: Wednesday, February 8, 2017


Professor Tihanov to speak at World Literature Summit and Forum in China

Professor Galin Tihanov has been invited to speak at this year's World Literature Summit and Forum.

Date added: Thursday, October 15, 2015


Angus Nicholls becomes Co-Editor of History of the Human Sciences

Angus Nicholls, has been appointed as co-editor of History of the Human Sciences.

Date added: Thursday, March 17, 2016


Ben Hutchinson comes to SLLF

We were honoured to have Professor Ben Hutchinshon deliver our first departmental research seminar of 2016.

Date added: Thursday, January 21, 2016


Comparative Literature PhD Students Present their Work

Our last departmental research seminar for this term.

Date added: Wednesday, December 9, 2015


Candlestick Press Editor Speaks to Comparative Literature Undergraduates

Jenny Swann spoke to final year students.

Date added: Friday, November 13, 2015


Dr Kiera Vaclavik Appointed to AHRC Peer Review College

Kiera Vaclavik has recently been appointed to the prestigious Peer Reveiw College of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Date added: Wednesday, November 4, 2015


Andrew Hines, PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, publishes paper on Donald Trump's use of metaphor

A PhD student in the department of Comparative Literature, has just published an article on Donald Trump's use of metaphor.

Date added: Wednesday, August 3, 2016


Dr. Angus Nicholls to give two keynote lectures at the first Antwerp Summer School in Philosophy and Society

This August, Dr. Angus Nicholls will deliver two keynote lectures at the first Antwerp Summer School in Philosophy and Society.

Date added: Monday, July 4, 2016


Professor Galin Tihanov to present a key-note address

Professor Galin Tihanov to present a key-note address

Date added: Tuesday, November 1, 2016


Emily Apter to deliver this year's Steiner Lecture

The 2015-16 Steiner Lecture will be delivered by esteemed scholar of world literature and translation studies, Emily Apter.

Date added: Thursday, October 15, 2015


Level 5 & 6 Semester One Reading Lists

Reading lists for level 5 & 6, semester one.

Date added: Wednesday, July 16, 2014


Premiere of the Wonderland Suite Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra

The premiere of the Wonderland Suite performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.

Date added: Friday, November 13, 2015


NSS 2016 Results

Overall satisfaction among students of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London is at 82 per cent.

Date added: Friday, August 12, 2016


Prof. Galin Tihanov elected member of the International Comparative Literature Association Co-ordinating Committee for the Histories of Literatures in the European Languages (CHLEL)

Prof. Galin Tihanov has been elected member of the International Comparative Literature Association Co-ordinating Committee for the Histories of Literatures in the European Languages.

Date added: Monday, July 4, 2016


LINKS

LINKS is a collaboration between London institutions involved in teaching and research in comparative literary studies.

Date added: Wednesday, September 30, 2015


Comparative Literature MA Student Wins 2015 BCLA Essay Prize

MA student Alexandra Jayne Dantzlerward has won first place in this year's British Comparative Literature Association postgraduate essay competition.

Date added: Friday, October 2, 2015


The Inaugural Graduate Conference in Philosophy and Literature at Queen Mary University of London: Schedule Announced

Friday, May 27th 2016. Conference schedule announced:

Date added: Tuesday, April 26, 2016


2015-16 Levels 5 & 6 Reading Lists

Information about set texts for level 5 & 6 modules taking place in 2015-16.

Date added: Friday, August 14, 2015


Gerald Gillespie at SLLF

We were honoured to have Professor Gillespie start our season of Comparative Literature research seminars at SLLF.

Date added: Tuesday, October 27, 2015


CFP: 2016 Graduate Conference in Philosophy and Literature at Queen Mary

The conference will be the first of its kind at Queen Mary and aims to offer a rigorous yet friendly environment for post-graduates from both philosophy and literature departments to debate issues.

Date added: Friday, October 23, 2015


LINKS (London Intercollegiate Network for Comparative Studies) 2015-16 Programme Announced

LINKS is a collaboration between London institutions involved in teaching and research in comparative literary studies, to promote dialogue and cooperation.

Date added: Wednesday, September 30, 2015


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Professor Galin Tihanov has been invited to speak at this year's World Literature Summit and Forum.

Date added: Thursday, October 15, 2015


Link to New Article on Kiera Vaclavik and Her Major Research Project, Addressing Alice: The Emergence of a Style Icon

Click here to find out more about Kiera Vaclavik and her latest research project.

Date added: Monday, January 19, 2015


Photo From the Spring Comparative Literature Research Event

Here is a photo from the Comparative Literature Research Event and Party.

Date added: Friday, August 14, 2015


Comparative Literature MA Student Wins First Prize in the 2014 BCLA Essay Competition

Congratulations to Yiyi Lopez Gandara.

Date added: Monday, November 3, 2014


National Student Survey 2016

National Student Survey 2016

Date added: Tuesday, October 11, 2016


Professor Galin Tihanov to teach at the 2017 IWL Summer School in Copenhagen

Professor Galin Tihanov to teach at the 2017 IWL Summer School in Copenhagen

Date added: Wednesday, October 19, 2016


Out now: a translation of Philippe Brenot, "The Story of Sex: From Apes to Robots", by Will McMorran

Out now: a translation of Philippe Brenot, "The Story of Sex: From Apes to Robots", by Will McMorran

Date added: Saturday, October 29, 2016


Angus Nicholls featured in QMUL's 'e-Bulletin'

Dr Angus Nicholls is featured in the 'People' section of this month's University e-bulletin:

Date added: Friday, November 11, 2016


"After Brexit, what does democracy mean?": an article by Andrew Hines, Comparative Literature PhD student

Andrew Hines, Comparative Literature PhD student at QMUL, publshed an article in the online journal The Conversation:

Date added: Tuesday, November 29, 2016


"Friedrich Max Müller and the Role of Philology in Victorian Thought": a new volume, co-edited by Angus Nicholls

"Friedrich Max Müller and the Role of Philology in Victorian Thought": a new volume, co-edited by Angus Nicholls

Date added: Tuesday, December 13, 2016


Prof Wiebke Denecke delivers this year's George Steiner Lecture: "World Literature, Premodern Comparisons and Global Cultural Memory in Action".

This year the Department of Comparative Literature and Culture welcomed Professor Wiebke Denecke (Boston University) for the George Steiner Lecture, supported by the AHRC Open World Research Initiative (OWRI) as part of the Cross-Language Dynamics Research Programme.

Date added: Tuesday, February 6, 2018


Adnan Al-Sayegh
Home is Exile: Poetry & Translation

The Department of Comparative Literature and Culture, the , and Exiled Writers Ink sponsored a poetry reading (original and in translation) and discussion with exiled poets Yang Lian and Adnan Al-Sayegh, and their respective translators (Brian Holton and Stephen Watts). The event, organized by  (QMUL) and Dr Jennifer Langer (Exiled Writers Ink), was followed by a drinks reception. 

Date added: Thursday, March 22, 2018


Dr Will McMorran wins prestigious translation prize for The 120 Days of Sodom

Dr Will McMorran was awarded the 2017 Scott Moncrieff Prize alongside Dr Thomas Wynn for translating The 120 Days of Sodom into English, which was then released as a Penguin Classic in 2016.

Date added: Tuesday, March 13, 2018


Julian Koch
Julian Koch awarded PhD for Research in Comparative Literature

Thesis title: "Effigies or Imaginary Affinities? The conception of the image in the poetry and poetics of Paul Celan and André du Bouchet."

Date added: Wednesday, February 28, 2018


New MA Bursary in Comparative Literature with French at QMUL's School of Linguistics, Languages and Film

The School of Languages, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary, University of London is happy to announce the Jill Forbes MA Bursary for students in Comparative Literature with French.

Date added: Friday, May 10, 2019


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Prof Tihanov convenes DFG symposium 'Comparative World Literatures'

Professor is invited convenor (with Professor Dieter Lamping) of a major international conference on world literature sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), 8-13 October.

Date added: Monday, October 8, 2018


PhD student Melanie Xang-Er Tang awarded Arthur Terry Postgraduate Essay Prize

We are pleased to announce that , PhD student in the Department of Comparative Literature and Culture, has won the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA)'s annual prize for an essay on any aspect of comparative literature. 

Date added: Sunday, September 23, 2018


Prof Tihanov to deliver keynote address at the international conference 'Revisiting Cosmopolitanism'

, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature, has been invited to deliver a keynote address at the Twenty First International Conference of the Forum on Contemporary Theory (FCT), in India. Other speakers include Homi Bhabha (Harvard) and Bruce Robbins (Columbia).

Date added: Monday, October 8, 2018


Comparative Literature Welcome Party 2018

All students and staff in the Department of Comparative Literature and Culture are warmly invited to our Welcome Party on Tuesday 2 October at 5.15pm in the ArtsOne ground-floor foyer. Please register here.

Date added: Thursday, September 20, 2018


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New seminar series announced

The Departments of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature are organizing a joint research seminar on the theme of Translation, Transmission, and Cultural Transfer. 

Date added: Thursday, September 6, 2018


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CFP: The Past, Present and Future of the Literary Anthology (International Conference)

The deadline for abstracts for the to be held at QMUL in June 2019 is 28th February. Click here to submit a proposal. 

Date added: Monday, September 17, 2018


Andrew Hines, PhD student
Andrew Hines awarded PhD in Comparative Literature

Congratulations to , PhD student in the Department of Comparative Literature and Culture, for his successful viva yesterday!

Date added: Wednesday, July 4, 2018


An Interview with Professor Galin Tihanov

Song Baomei, associate professor from Northeast Agricultural University, interviewed Professor Tihanov when working as a visiting scholar at Queen Mary, University of London.  is George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature, member of the Academia Europaea and Honorary President of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory.

Date added: Monday, June 25, 2018


Professor Rebecca L. Walkowitz delivers this year's George Steiner Lecture: "On Not Knowing: Lahiri, Tawada, Ishiguro"

This year the Department of Comparative Literature and Culture welcomed Professor Rebecca L. Walkowitz (Rutgers University) for the George Steiner Lecture.

Date added: Thursday, March 7, 2019


Professor Galin Tihanov invited to deliver keynote address at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University

Professor Galin Tihanov will deliver a key-note address, 'Exilic Inscriptions: Mobility and the Resistance to Theory' at the launch of a new research project on exile and migration hosted by the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.   Friday 11th September, 2020 at 12:00pm Eastern Time (US), Online For further details and to register, please follow this link: https://u.osu.edu/redmigrations/

Date added: Wednesday, September 9, 2020


British Academy COVID-19 grant awarded to Rachel Bryant Davies, Lucie Glasheen, and Kiera Vaclavik (Comparative Literature) for project, 'Childhood heroes: storytelling survival strategies and role models of resilience to Covid-19 in the UK'.

This new , which is a collaboration with children’s magazine Storytime, grew out of developing research within the Centre for Childhood Cultures. You can read more here.

Date added: Thursday, September 24, 2020


'IntranQu’îllités' (producer Kasia Mika): UK domestic film premiere

Kasia Mika's film IntranQuîllités (with Ed Owles), Winner of the 2019 AHRC Research in Film Awards, has its UK domestic premiere on 26th September 2020. https://shortsightedcinema.com/programmes/keeping_on/  

Date added: Friday, September 25, 2020


Queen Mary academics elected to the British Academy

Two academics from Queen Mary University of London, Professor Galin Tihanov, and Professor Amanda Vickery, have been elected to the British Academy Fellowship in recognition of their contribution to the humanities and social sciences.  

Date added: Friday, July 23, 2021


Home schooling is hundreds of years old – here’s what its history teaches us about learning through play

Dr Rachel Bryant Davies, Lecturer in Comparative Literature has written for The Conversation on how looking at historical playful learning can help us moving forward.  

Date added: Wednesday, August 11, 2021


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