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comparative literature

An eloquent voice for freedom

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, acclaimed writer and UC Irvine professor, is remembered for his powerful pen and inspirational teaching

May 29, 2025
Sholeh Wolpé, UCI writer-in-residence

Finding Your Inner Firefly

UCI writer-in-residence shares how literature has illuminated her life’s journey

June 21, 2023
At the 9/11 Memorial at New York City’s rebuilt World Trade Center, a rose adorns the edge of a reflecting pool. The effects of that day’s terrorist attacks are still being felt 20 years later.

How 9/11 changed America

UCI scholars offer insights into how the terrorist attacks continue to impact health, travel, politics and the media

September 09, 2021
J. Hillis Miller, UCI Distinguished Professor Emeritus of comparative literature and English

Remembering Distinguished Professor Emeritus J. Hillis Miller

Influential scholar established UCI as national leader in critical theory

February 11, 2021

Distinguished Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o wins 2019 Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, UCI Distinguished Professor of comparative literature and English, has been awarded the 2019 Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize for Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, about language and its constructive role in national culture, history and identity. The collection of essays advocates for linguistic decolonization and is one […]

May 24, 2019