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Hamid Dabashi
Posted April 29, 2010“Epics and Empires: Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh in Comparative Context” and “The Moral Crisis of an Islamic Republic” Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at […] -
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Raul Zurita Canessa
Posted April 28, 2010Raúl Zurita Canessa (born 1950) is a Chilean poet. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2000. In 1984 Raúl Zurita was awarded a scholarship by the […] -
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Tonya Foster and Rachel Zolf
Posted April 22, 2010“Territories & Language Under Stress: New Orleans to Palestine” Tonya Foster is the author of Swarms of Bees in High Court, from Belladonna Press and Futurepoem Books. Her […] -
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Neil Hertz
Posted November 17, 2009Neil Hertz is Professor Emeritus in the English Department at John Hopkins University. He also teaches classes on urban literature and on the history of photography. -
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Samuel Menashe
Posted May 5, 2009Samuel Menashe was the first the Winner of the Poetry Foundation of America’s “Neglected Master’s” Award in 2004. He read from his latest collection: New and Selected Poems, which […] -
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Robery O’Meally
Posted November 20, 2008Robert O’Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and founder and former director of the Center for Jazz Studies. His major interests are American […] -
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Peter Schneider
Posted April 9, 2008“The Multicultural Dream in Europe and the United States” Peter Schneider, one of today’s foremost German novelists of international recognition, is a chronicler of his own West German […] -
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Daniel Heller-Roazen
Posted March 6, 2008Daniel Heller-Roazen is the Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of The Fifth Hammer: […] -
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Michal Govrin
Posted November 8, 2007“In conversation with Norman Manea on her latest novel Snapshots” Michal Govrin, a novelist, poet, and theater director, chairs the theater Department of Emunah College, Jerusalem. Among her […] -
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Nuruddin Farah
Posted February 27, 2007Nuruddin Farah is a prize-winning and outspoken Somali activist. Farah describes his purpose for writing as an attempt “to keep my country alive by writing about it.” His first […]