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Jordan Tudisco awarded 2024-25 UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship

Jordan Tudisco (PhD Candidate - Comparative Literature) awarded UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2024-25 at UC Berkeley!

Virtual Symposium: Nabokov from Novel Perspectives

Nabokov from Novel Perspectives

Virtual Symposium Program

Virtual Symposium: Nabokov from Novel Perspectives

Nabokov from Novel Perspectives

Virtual Symposium Program

Introducing the CompLit Book Club!

Welcome! This club is open to all, providing a place of pleasurable reading, conversation and community. All majors are encouraged to join!

UCSB professor, Thomas Mazanec, publishes his first book

Associate Professor Thomas Mazanec publishes his first book, Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China (Cornell University Press, 2024). This text focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Find more information here. Congratulations Professor Mazanec!

Mario Moroni: Guest Lecture Event

Featured guest lecture by Mario Moroni at UCSB.

Jody Enders wins Lois Roth Translation Prize

Jody Enders, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, has been honored with the MLA's prestigious Lois Roth Prize in Literary Translation for her exceptional collection of French farces titled "Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries

UCSB Reads 2024

Now in its 18th year, UCSB Reads brings the campus and Santa Barbara communities together to read a common book that explores compelling issues of our time.