About

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.

Research

Community

Roundtables

Distinguished Visitors

Event

We are delighted to welcome Lorna Goodison, one of the Caribbean's most distinguished poets and Poet Laureate of Jamaica (2017–2020), for a remote lecture on her recent translation of Dante's Inferno. The talk will be moderated by Prof. Giancarlo Tursi and open to all. This event is co-sponsored by the UCSB Program in Translation Studies. We hope to see you there!