What's Current in
Comparative Literature
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Detail of "Queer Traffic" book cover with art by Lechevirgen Trimegisto
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Detail, book cover for "Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir" by Suzanne Jill Levine, Bloomsbury, 2025
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Illustration by Ishtar Bäcklund Dakhil for Mona Damluji's “I Want You to Know."
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Jeff Liang
UCSB Distinguished Professor Sara Poot Herrera
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Candice Lyons
Solaire Denaud, 2025 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow
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Matt Perko
Jane Ward is a professor and chair of UCSB's Department of Feminist Studies
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Jeff Liang
Professor Sameer Pandya at UC Santa Barbara's Harder Stadium
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Illustration by Matt Perko
Flower picking as a metaphor for rediscovery — professor emerita Víctor Fuentes’ "Florilegio" gathers centuries of overlooked Spanish-language literature from the U.S.
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Connecting the past to the present, the documentary "We Were Here" sparks conversations about representation, belonging and historical memory.
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Ingrid Bostrom
Corita Kent (b. Fort Dodge, IA, 1918 - 1986), “harness the sun” and “solw,” details, both 1967, Serigraph on paper, Courtesy of Corita Art Center, Los Angeles. Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara.
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Students from Adams Elementary School at the Santa Barbara Presidio learn about the statue of King Carlos III.
