Annual Symposium

The program fosters an intellectual environment through the annual Texas Tech University Comparative Literature Symposium started in the 1960s. Recent topics include:

• Carnivalizing Difference: Bakhtin and the Other (1994).
• Latin American Women Writers: Canons, Traditions, and Revisions (1995).
• A Comparative Approach to Sport (1996).
• French Feminism Across the Disciplines (1997): Symposium Directors:Hafid Gafaiti, Paul Allen Miller, and Sharon Diane Nell.
• Webs of Discourse: the Intertextuality of Science Studies (1998): Symposium Director: Bruce Clarke.
• Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology and the Brain (1999): Symposium Directors: Ted E, McVay and Gary Fireman.
• Woman in the Eighteenth Century (2000): Symposium Director: Sharon Nell.
• Shakespeare 2001: New Readings of the Page, New Meanings for the Stage (2001): Symposium Director: Donald Rude.
• Transnational Cultures, Diasporas, and Immigrant Identities in France and the Francophone World (2002):  Symposium Directors: Hafid Gafaiti and David Troyansky.
• (In)versions of the New World: Writing Race, Religion & Sex in Colonial Latin America (2003): Symposium Director: Susan Isabel Stein.
• Memory and History: Cultural Representations of Displacement and Genocide (2004): Symposium Directors: Ingrid Fry and Charles Grair.
• The Representation of Space: Geo-critical Approaches to Comparative Literature (2005): Symposium Directors: Bertrand Westphal and David Troyansky.
• Narratives in Trauma Response and Recovery (2006): Symposium Director: Yuan Shu.
• America's Asia, Asia's America (2007): Symposium Director: Yuan Shu.
• War, Empire, and Culture (2008): Symposium Director: Yuan Shu.