The Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR) is a venue for lively intellectual exchange between students of Comparative Literature and other affiliated disciplines in the Humanities at UCSB. We welcome 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 director is Dr. Juan Pablo Lupi (Spanish and Portuguese).

Our activities include Fall and Winter quarterly roundtables, where emergent scholars present their work in progress; an annual interdisciplinary conference in the Spring; a Dissertation and Prospectus Writing 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; and the management of Exchanges, an annual peer-reviewed responsive journal produced by the Student Editorial Board that takes it theme from the annual interdisciplinary conference. 

Affiliated Departments and Programs:

Comparative Literature                 English                                        History of Art & Architecture

German and Slavic                        French and Italian                    Spanish and Portuguese

Film and Media                              Art History                                   Art

Religious Studies                             Classics                                       East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies

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