Worlds of Comparative Literature

Waïl S. Hassan is Professor and Head of the Department of Comparative & World Literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. His publications include Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature (2011), The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions (2017), and Arab Brazil: Fictions of Ternary Orientalism (2024).Shu-mei Shih is Professor of Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies, and the Irving and Jean Stone Chair in Humanities at University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Her publications include The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 (2001), Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific (2007), and Against Diaspora: Discourse on Sinophone Studies (2017).

• Introduction Waïl S. Hassan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) and Shu-mei Shih (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)Part 1. Parameters1. Histories of Comparative Literature: The Last Decade Anca Parvulescu (Washington University in St Louis, USA)2. Beyond Compare Françoise Lionnet (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)3. Modernist Visions, Comparative Horizons: The Global Discipline Reimagined Firat Oruc (Georgetown University in Qatar)4. Expanded Comparisons Zhang Longxi (Hunan Normal University, China)5. Embracing Ignorance Lucia Boldrini (University College London, UK)6. On Disconnect: Severed Wires of Globalization Adhira Mangalagiri (New York University, USA)7. Comparative, Cross-Cultural, Connected Shaj Mathew (Trinity University, USA)8. The Limits of Comparative Literature Glenn Odom (University of Roehampton, London, UK)9. Postmortem Comparatism Juan Meneses (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA)10. The Stasis in the Crisis: Value Theory for an Age of Extremes G. S. Sahota (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)11. Comparative Literature at the End of the World? Corey Byrnes (Northwestern University, USA)12. Grounds of Comparison in East-West Literary Studies: Continuity and Innovation Sheldon Lu (University of California, Davis, USA)Part 2. New Directions13. South-South Comparison and Global South Studies Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (Pennsylvania State University, USA) and Anne Garland Mahler (University of Virginia, USA)14. Comparatism’s Afro-Asian Turn Hala Halim (New York University, USA)15. Settler of Color Critique and Comparative Literature Shu-mei Shih (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)16. Integrating Comparative Literature and the Medical and Health Humanities Karen Laura Thornber (Harvard University, USA)17. Metamorphoses: From Comparative Literature to the Biohumanities Tomasz Bilczewski (Jagiellonian University, Poland)18. Mediated Witnessing: New Streams in Witnessing Studies Fatima Festic (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)19. Crossing Imperial Scales of Time: Comparison against Periodization Tianyi Shou (Cornell University, USA)20. Multilingual World Literature: Unwelcoming Hermeneutics and Vulnerable Critique Matylda Figlerowicz (Harvard University, USA)Part 3. Perspectives from Around the World21. Proverbial Questions and Indigenous Answers Jacob Edmond (University of Otago, New Zealand)22. Between Pages and Politics: Taiwan’s Comparative Literature in a Geopolitical Framework Yu-lin Lee (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)23. Bandung as Method in Southeast Asia Nazry Bahrawi (University of Washington, USA)24. Practicing Comparative Literature in India: Geopolitics in a Pluralist Ethical Frame Ipshita Chanda (The English & Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India)25. State of the Discipline in Turkiye and Possible Trajectories Hasan Baktir and Ahmet Ipsirli (Erciyes University, Turkiye)26. New Histories of Comparative Literature in Slovenia Blaž Zabel (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)27. Comparing the Literatures of/in Europe in a Global Age Theo D’haen (Leiden University, The Netherlands)28. Literature and Multilingualism in Europe Núria Codina Solà (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Jesse van Amelsvoort (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)29. Comparative Literature in Denmark Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)30. Renaissance of a Discipline Rowan Tomlinson (University of Bristol, UK)31. Comparatism: A Vision from the South José Luís Jobim (Federal Fluminense University, Brazil)32. Between Latin American Studies and Comparative Literature Florencia Garramuño (University of San Andrés, Brazil)Part 4. Institutions33. The Expansive Contraction of Comparative Studies David Damrosch (Harvard University, USA)34. The State of Comparative Literature in 2023: Theory, Practice, and University Bureaucracy Kathleen Komar (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)35. The Americas Otherwise: Part 2 Lois Parkinson Zamora (University of Houston, USA)36. The Recent Past and Near Future of Comparative Literature: Time-to-Degree as Symptom Haun Saussy (University of Chicago, USA) 37. Jack of All Trades, Master of None! Ali Behdad (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)38. Translation, Migration, and Culture: Language Encounters in Life and in Art Sandra Bermann (Princeton University, USA)39. Multilingualism, Heritage Languages, and the Future of Comparative Literature Melek Ortabasi (Simon Fraser University, Canada)40. Founding the ADPCL Michael Palencia-Roth (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)41. Parallel Lives: The Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature (ADPCL) Shadows the ADE and ADL Thomas Beebee & Caroline Eckhardt (Penn State University, USA) 42. ADPCL Report on Graduate Programs in Comparative Literature Yopie Prins (University of Michigan, USA) & Luis Fernando Restrepo (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA)