The Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR) is a venue for lively intellectual exchange between graduate students of Comparative Literature and other disciplines in the Humanities at UC Santa Barbara.
We welcome graduate students engaged in the study of literature, art, film, and theory. The GCLR is a unit of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, which provides administrative support. Our current Faculty Director is Professor Juan Pablo Lupi (Spanish and Portuguese).
Some of our regular activities include Fall and Winter quarterly roundtables, where emergent scholars present their work in progress; an annual interdisciplinary conference in the Spring; professionalization workshop; annual week-long visits by distinguished scholars who give a public lecture and/or teach a seminar, and establish connections with our doctoral students.
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Talk with Poet Laureate of Jamaica Lorna Goodison
We are delighted to welcome Lorna Goodison, one of the Caribbean’s most acclaimed poets and former Poet Laureate of Jamaica (2017–2020), for a special lecture on her recent translation of Dante’s *Inferno*, taking place on Thursday, November 5, at 5:00 p.m. in North Hall 1006 at UC Santa Barbara. Joining us remotely, Goodison will discuss her translation of this literary classic in a conversation moderated by Professor Giancarlo Tursi. The event is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Barbara Program in Translation Studies. We look forward to seeing you there!
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