... state of disciplines: we think very badly about institutions, when we do at all. © 2014 by University of Oregon 2014 ACLA institution discipline comparative literature graduate programs Works Cited Cooper Mark Garrett Marx John . “Crisis, Crisis, Crisis: Big Media and the...

... discipline in the U.S. and, more particularly, the recent development of the comparative study of the Americas. This growing field is variously referred to as Americas Studies, Transamerican Studies, Interamerican Studies, Hemispheric Studies and, depending upon the program or curriculum, it may also involve...

... programs. We are hoping this year to produce a study on graduate education along the same lines as that produced by Professor Scheiner. We congratulate her on this extensive and illuminating study, and we thank her for helping us all to under- stand the undergraduate challenges and opportunities in...

... we believe we now meet the MLA’s criteria in this regard. (3) We have encouraged the MLA to include Comparative Literature more fully in its new project to create an online directory of graduate programs in English and in Foreign Languages, and the MLA has indicated its will...

... discipline. ADPCL members consist of comparative literature department and program chairs, center or institute directors, committee chairs, graduate or undergraduate officers—anyone who administratively represents a comparative literature academic unit. All colleagues who have administrative...

... Colleagues, What follows is a brief report from the Association of Departments and Pro- grams of Comparative Literature (ADPCL), a partner organization of the ACLA. Our participants include program and department chairs, graduate and under- graduate directors, and others who guide or would like to...

... of those enrolled in Russian, Italian, French, and German literatures and languages are down—conspicuously among undergraduates, but in graduate programs as well. A sharp decline is evident in the interest in literary studies as a whole. Far fewer undergraduates take courses in literature or...

... Dear Colleagues, We’re glad to provide this annual report on the Association of Departments and Pro- grams of Comparative Literature (ADPCL), which is the administrative organization for Comparative Literature department and program chairs, graduate or undergraduate of- ficers, committee...

... of the ICLA Bulletin, at icla@byu.edu. You will find elsewhere in this issue an announcement of the Bernheimer Memorial Prize for dissertations in comparative literature. I hope that depart- ments or programs of Comparative Literature will set up ways of deciding which is the strongest...

... December 2004. Haun Saussy con- vened the session “Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization: Present- ing the 2004 ACLA Report on the State of the Discipline,” which evoked a lively discussion about Comparative Literature as a discipline and about its graduate and undergraduate programs. The...

... Accidents of Agency.” The American Historical Review 104 ( 1999 ): 1208 -20. Ross, Kristin. “The World Literature and Cultural Studies Program.” Critical Inquiry 19 ( 1993 ): 666 -76. Stratton, Jon, and Ien Ang. “On the Impossibility of a Global Cultural Studies: `British' Cultural Studies...

... ideal pedagogical examples for undergraduate and graduate students learning how to undertake film analysis, chapter 1 tackles the dense symbolism of Zhang Yimou’s Red Sor- ghum (1987), exposing certain proto-capitalist sensibilities and desires that appear to be projected backwards in time (and...

... active appreciation of different cultures and other peoples” (14) and “a sympathetic understanding of the values and aspirations that move men in the vast areas of eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and the islands of the sea” (17). As a result, foreign language programs saw unprecedented...

... graduate students and to interested undergraduates, and we will be exploring a variety of ways in which our group, and our website, can become more useful to our full membership: for initial searches for appropriate gradu- ate programs, for help in formulating orals fields and dissertation plans, for...

.... She respects me that way. But otherwise people are not aware that I’m not impractical. The first time I directed a Comparative Literature program, 1975—that’s an awfully long time ago. I know that certain things can be done, student by student, course by course. It requires work. Area Studies is...

... studies also underwrote his teaching, both in the Department of Romance Languages and in the Comparative Literature Program, where a broad spectrum of undergraduate and graduate courses consistently cut across the boundaries of national literary traditions. In short, Tom’s distinguished international...

... many Greek schools of Bucharest before moving to J.A. Vaillant’s newly opened “Progressive French School,” and from there to completing a baccalaureate in a Paris lycee and then graduating from an engineering program at L’Ecole des Mines. One of the most committed 1848 revolutionaries, he was...

..., have been made since the early 1990s to reconfigure American studies beyond its estab- lished national-linguistic boundaries. A panel organized by the Association of Departments and Programs in Comparative Literature at the 2012 MLA conven- tion invited speakers to think of the Americanization of...

.... (More recently, one can perhaps observe a similar trajectory regarding German programs in Islamic Studies.) But even more is at stake here than the study of one’s own identity or the acquisition of another. Jewish Studies has shifted from a field that should be able to give answers as to who one...

... Martha Woodmansee has recently shown, nascent literary mass marketing strategies.5 Again, Goethe’s remarks anticipate 2 According to Peter Weber, Goethe developed his world literature concept specifically in opposi- tion to a program of national literature. Goethe, in Weber’s view, saw national...