Tufts University Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies

02/13/2023

On February 3rd, ILCS hosted a symposium called, Dystopia Now! with Dr. Cornel West as the keynote speaker. Many thanks to him and the professors and students who spoke at the event. For more information on this event check out the Tufts Daily article: https://tuftsdaily.com/news/university/2023/02/09/dr-cornel-west-faculty-students-speak-at-dystopia-now-symposium/.

Presenters included:
Professor Susan Napier, Assistant Professor Sarah Corrigan, Assistant Professor Alexandra Chreiteh, Professor Carleton, Salome Albright, Dr. Brandon Pelcher, Professor Malcolm Turvey, Milo Shields and John Lehman

Photo Credit: Aaron Gruen of the Tufts Daily

02/01/2023

Please join members of the ILCS Department for our Dystopia Now! symosium. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Cornel West. Full program: https://tufts.app.box.com/file/1083883406754?v=dystopia-now-symposium

01/09/2023

https://www.americanacademy.de/videoaudio/sweetmeats-a-novel/

Watch a video of Assistant Professor Chreiteh read from her novel-in-progress, "Sweetmeats."

Alexandra Chreiteh’s reads from her magical novel-in-progress "Sweetmeats," set in a border town between Lebanon and Syria, on the cusp of the Syrian revolution.

11/14/2022

Paid AdvertisementWhen she was originally asked to teach Theories of Humor and Laughter at Emerson College, a course intended for aspiring comedians, Harvard Ph.D. candidate Sarah Corrigan felt more than out of place. While she was excited to teach the course, her research centered around modern for...

11/02/2022

Check out Professor Susan Napier's review of Hayao Miyazaki's children's book ‘Shuna’s Journey.’ The book was first published in 1983 and has only just now been translated into English.

First published in Japan in 1983, this picture book from the fabled animator is eerie, enchanting and surpassingly strange.

11/01/2022

Spring 2023 courses are up. Take a look!

All International Literary and Cultural Studies courses can be found on SIS. Select a Program from the Course Subject in SIS to view information.

09/29/2022

Take the Field! An Afternoon with Sol Gittleman and Groundbreaking of Sol Gittleman Park.

09/28/2022

The Chinese Program is hosting the 11th New England Chinese Language Teachers Association Annual Conference on Chinese language teaching. The conference will be held in person in the newly built Joyce Cummings Center at Tufts University on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. The theme of the conference for this year is: Chinese Language study: Strengthening Communication for a Shared Future 学中文：加强沟通、共享未来. In addition to the keynote speech by Professor Erwin Tschirner, Pathways to Proficiency: Understanding and Supporting Language Development for Communication, the conference features roundtables, panels, and more than 30 individual presentations by K-16 teachers across New England. A short version of the program can be found here: https://tufts.box.com/s/p5c2lr0ugwhseodqf5b6wneclflhr4iq.

08/23/2022

Congratulations to Professor Charles Inouye, whose latest book Zion Earth, Zen Sky won an AML Award for Creative Nonfiction.

"Charles Inouye’s Zion Earth Zen Sky is a strikingly original and beautiful book, a tour de force of wisdom and insight. A candid autobiography and a powerful work of religious and cultural criticism, Zion Earth Zen Sky blends eastern and western sensibilities as well as rhetorical forms like personal narrative, haiku poetry, and syncretic commentary. Beginning with his upbringing in a Japanese family building a new life on a Utah farm, Inouye recounts key events that have shaped his life as a Latter-day Saint and accomplished scholar of Japanese literature at Tufts University. He also shares poignant details about life struggles, opens windows onto his personal relationships, and offers powerful (and often brilliantly counterintuitive) perspectives on important aspects of Latter-day Saint moral and theological life. Zion Earth Zen Sky is a generational book that will become – indeed, already is – a landmark of Mormon letters."

The Association for Mormon Letters’ AML Awards were presented online on July 23,...

08/18/2022

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