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The sixth summer session of the Institute for World Literature (Harvard University) (application)

The sixth summer session of the Institute for World Literature (Harvard University) (application)

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The sixth summer session of the Institute for World Literature (Harvard University)

 

The Institute for World Literature, directed by David Damrosch, will hold its sixth summer school session from June 20 through July 14, 2016, at Harvard. Our ambitious four-week program includes a total of fourteen two-week seminars taught by leading names in world literature today, together with outstanding guest lectures and the opportunity for participants to share their work in colloquia, as well as panels on publishing and the job market. The program will be supplemented by outings and cultural events to build community beyond the boundaries of the formal sessions. Our participants will have the chance to examine critically the latest challenges of this comprehensive and rapidly developing field, from its theoretical concepts and the history of the discipline to its forms of practice today embedded in a world market. Our seminars are taught by a mix of distinguished senior faculty and innovative younger scholars of world literature:

– Paul Bandia, Concordia University
– Margaret Cohen, Stanford University
– David Damrosch, Harvard University
– Paul Giles, University of Sydney
– Eric Hayot, Pennsylvania State University
– Lital Levy, Princeton University
– Reine Meylaerts, KU Leuven
– Mitsuyoshi Numano, Tokyo University
– Bruce Robbins, Columbia University
– Gisèle Sapiro, EHESS and CNRS
– Mariano Siskind, Harvard University
– Nirvana Tanoukhi, University of Wisconsin
– Jing Tsu, Yale University
– Rebecca Walkowitz, Rutgers University

Our 2016 guest lecturer will be Homi Bhabha (Harvard) and our plenary speakers will include some of our seminar leaders: Paul Bandia (Concordia University), Margaret Cohen (Stanford), David Damrosch (Harvard), Mariano Siskind (Harvard), Rebecca Walkowitz (Rutgers University). Our guests are all noteworthy figures who have made major contributions to world literature and to the discipline of comparative literature, challenging and redefining from different perspectives the boundaries and key issues of classical and modern philology, literary theory and criticism. Special panels composed of IWL faculty and participants will discuss professional issues of strategies for moving into the job market and for publishing.

In addition to attending seminars, our participants will give a paper within one of our seven colloquia groups organized around broad themes: World Literature and Production, World Literature and Circulation, World Literature and Translation, Postcolonialism and World Literature, World Cinema and World Literature, Premodern Literature and World Literature; Politics, Poetics and World Literature. Meeting once each week with their peers under the leadership of one of our postdoc or faculty participants, they will have the opportunity to make their own contribution to the developing field of world literary studies.

Our participants’ work will benefit from using the resources of the Harvard Library, the largest and most important university library in the world for humanists.  

To feel the pulse of the city and its surroundings, we will organize casual outings (free or at minimal cost), including a visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Harvard's Fogg Museum, and a day at Singing Beach.

Check out our 2016 flyer and feel free to share it with your friends and home institution. If you want to know more about what the IWL experience is all about, check our our short video with our 2015 participants' opinions and slideshow of the Lisbon highlights on our Homepage.

Our application period runs from November 1, 2015 through February 1, 2016. To apply online, go to:

http://iwl.fas.harvard.edu/pages/online-application

 

Institute for World Literature
Department of Comparative Literature
Harvard University
16 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel. (617) 496-5360
E-mail: iwl@fas.harvard.edu