Professor Isabel Hofmeyr opened her lecture Monday evening by taking the audience underwater. At the start of her talk, she detailed the dumping of books deemed unacceptable by the British Empire’s ...

In early summer, Nicole Legnani, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, anticipated a key hurdle in order to teach virtually in fall 2020. Legnani was planning her graduate seminar on colonial ...

Frank Herbert’s “Dune” novels struggled with their debt to colonial adventure literature. The books revel in swash and buckle and Mighty Whitey heroes lifted from the milieu of writers as various as ...

About the book: This book brings together leading critics in American literature to address the representation of time throughout a wide range of genres, methodologies, and chronological periods.

Michelle Coupal receives funding from the Canada Research Chairs program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). She is affiliated with the University of Regina.

Writing is about finding voice in the nuances of the human experience, Tanzanian author and Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah said at an event Sept. 14. The event, titled “A Conversation with Nobel ...

I first came across the work of the Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah when I was studying for field exams in post-colonial literature, in 2009, and what I remember most is the way his writing ...

For more than a half-century, Nancy Cirillo taught English and was a scholar at the University of Illinois Chicago. An expert on Caribbean studies and post-colonial literature, Cirillo loved teaching, ...

Natalia Alca, a fifth-grade student from Truman Elementary School, was recently named winner of the Colonial Day at the Capitol Literature Contest sponsored by the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence.

Comparative literature is inherently multicultural and dynamic; the comparative approach embraces world literature and culture in all periods of history. The comparative literature and culture major ...