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Recently published:

Affecting Grace: Theatre, Subject, and the Shakespearean Paradox in German Literature from Lessing to Kleist

Kenneth S. Calhoon, University of Toronto Press, 21013

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Affecting Grace examines the importance of Shakespeare's poetry and plays within German literature and thought after 1750 – including its relationship to German classicism, which favoured unreflected ease over theatricality. More...


Grad Student News

Julia Susana Gomez

Julia Susan Gomez has been names a Global Oregon/ Translation Studies Working Group Research Award recipeint for her project "Musical Interpretation and Translation: Mesías Maiguashca's Boletín y elegía de las mitas and Quichua's Role in the Formation of Contemporary Ecuadorian Nationalisms."

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The nomad Mentorship Program concludes Secret LogoA year of scandal and subversion - conspiracy and contrivance - of the solemn and the solitary.

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Welcome to the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon. We have the oldest doctoral program in comparative literature on the West Coast, as well as a unique major for undergraduates, and a dynamic faculty representing disciplines across campus. Oregon is also the home of the principal journal in the field, Comparative Literature, which recently celebrated its sixtieth anniversary. Please explore our website to learn more about the department or contact us via e-mail.


2013 nomad undergraduate conference

Saturday, May 18, 12-5 p.m., 111 Lillis


Comparative Literature is a co-sponsor of the
New Media New Concepts New Forms
Speaker Series

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Thursday, May 9
4:00 p.m., 221 McKenzie Hall

David Levy

Professor, Information School, University of Washington

"Information, Comtemplation, and the Roots of the American University"

Friday, May 10
9:00 a.m., 110 Fenton

Daniel Barbezat

Professor of Economics, Amherst College; Executive Director, Center for Contemplative Mind in Society

(with David Levy)

"Contemplative Practices and the Transformation of Higher Education"