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Arpi Movsesian successfully defends her PhD in August 2022

Arpi Movsesian has successfully defended her PhD in August 2022 and accepted a position as Lecturer at Rutgers University's Program in Russian and East European Languages and Literatures!

Satyajit Ray and the Sense of Wonder, Conference and Film Screening

This three-day conference and attendant film series have been organized to celebrate the birth centenary of the renowned Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray (1921-1992). Held at Pollock Theater on October 13th, 14th, and 15th.

Peter Alagona releases new book: The Accidental Ecosystem

The Accidental Ecosystem tells the story of how cities across the United States went from having little wildlife to filling, dramatically and unexpectedly, with wild creatures.

Graduate Student Accepts New Position as Assistant Professor!

One of UCSB's Comparative Literature graduate students, Wendy Sun, has accepted a new position as Assistant Professor of German Studies at Grinnell College!

Doctoral student, Dustin Lovett, publishes new article in the Journal of World Literature

Check out Dustin Lovett's new article, World Literature In and For Pandemic Times!

A Roundtable Discussion with Filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako

Please join us for a 90-minute roundtable discussion with the renowned filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako on April 29th 10:30 am - 1:00 pm.

Screening of Timbuktu at the Pollock Theater

Come check out the screening of Timbuktu at the Pollock Theater on Thursday, April 28, 2022 / 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM (PDT).

Magic lantern: seeing far, seeing self and other delights in Méliès’s Lanterne Magique, Hoffmann’s Rat Krespel and Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann

The stupendous impact of the magic lantern, the early technology for producing spectacles of moving images, on the imaginative labors of the romantic generation, especially when these return us to the domain of the ocular, of seeing and gazing, has long been recognized in scholarship. Less understood is the mobilization of the apparatus for reimagining voice, singing and song during the 19th-century.