Comparative Literature

Apply now: 2017 Merit Scholarship in Comparative Literature

Roy Arthur Swanson Merit Scholarship in Comparative Literature The Comparative Literature program has established a Merit Scholarship in honor of Professor Emeritus Roy Arthur Swanson, whose scholarship and teaching excellence have constituted an example for students whose love of literature …

COMPLIT 464 approved for university OWC-B GER

We’re pleased to announce that Comparative Literature 464 has been approved to satisfy the Oral and Written Communication B (OWC-B) GER requirement. If you need to satisfy this requirement, consider adding the course to your schedule for spring! COMPLIT 464Seminar …

UWM’s Commitment to Inclusiveness

The Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature welcomes and endorses Chancellor Mark A. Mone’s statement of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s deep commitment to inclusiveness and to our guiding values, including diversity in all of its definitions and to a caring, compassionate, …

Congratulations to Peter Paik and Kristin Pitt on their recent publications

Congratulations to Peter Y. Paik, associate professor of comparative literature, whose article “The Death of Horror: On Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure” was published in Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context, vol. 9, no. 2, 2016. The essay, which appears in a special volume …

Prof. Demetrius Williams discusses race in Milwaukee and Sherman Park

Demetrius Williams, associate professor of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and pastor of Community Baptist Church, recently sat down with OnMilwaukee.com to discuss race and community-building in Sherman Park and throughout the city.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.