Category Archives: Comparative Literature

Research and scholarship at the intersection of Comparative Literature, Translation Studies and related fields.

PEN Translates Offers Funding for Literary Translation Projects

By | October 4, 2026

Funding opportunity for publishers | Deadline: 30 November 2026 PEN Translates, the literary translation award administered by English PEN, is accepting applications for its latest funding round until 11.59pm GMT on 30 November 2026. Launched in 2012 with support from Arts Council England, PEN Translates aims to encourage UK publishers to acquire and publish contemporary literature from other… Read More »

Call for Papers: Graduate Student Conference on Translation Studies

By | October 4, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERSGraduate Student Conference on Translation StudiesProgram of Comparative LiteratureUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst April 20-21, 2024 Conference theme: Trace and TransformationKeynote speaker: Dr. Loredana Polezzi, Stony Brook University Call for Papers The art of translation, as Edouard Glissant reminds us, involves “the practice of trace, which, as against systematic thought, points the way to the uncertain, the… Read More »

Southeast Asian Literatures and the Anthropocene

By | October 4, 2026

Call for Papers: 4th ASLE-ASEAN Ecocritical Workshop-August 23-24, 2021 Organized by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment –Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASLE-ASEAN) and the Department of English, Faculty of Modern Languages & Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia Deadline: 25th June 2021Contact: Dr Agnes Yeow and Dr Florence TohEmail: asleaseanabstracts@gmail.com In his seminal work “The Climate… Read More »

Lecture Series by Centre for Comparative Literature, UoH

By | October 4, 2026

Centre for Comparative Literature at University of Hyderabad conducts series of online lectures on various topics featuring prominent academicians across the globe. The inaugural lecture will be delivered by Prof. Rupa Viswanath (Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen). Title: “Permanent Minorities and Political Domination: Ambedkar on Representative Democracy” Date: 18 Sept 18 2020Time: 7.30 PM, IST… Read More »