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English Department

English and Languages and Literatures

Walter Mignolo

Walter Mignolo

Committee for Comparative Literature

Our mission is to encourage and support inter- and multi-disciplinary studies in the Humanities with special emphasis on language and literary studies.  ELL organizes lectures, literary readings, and subsidizes theater visits.

Upcoming Events, Spring 2009:

Walter D. Mignolo, Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies & Literature and Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University, will give a lecture entitled "Cosmopolitanism and the Decolonial Option," Thursday, April 30 in Sturm Hall 248.  A wine reception will begin at 5:00 p.m. with the lecture to follow at 5:30.  For more information, click here and here or contact Rachel Walsh:  Rachel.Walsh@du.edu

Recent Events:

William Rasch Lecture (2008) 

ELL committee members:

Jan Gorak

jgorak@du.edu

18th- and 20th-Century Literature

Benjamin Kim
benjamin.kim@du.edu
18th- and 19th-Century Literature

Alison Krogel

akrogel@du.edu

Spanish

 

Maik Nwosu
mnwosu@du.edu
World Literature

 

Rachel Walsh
rachel.walsh@du.edu
Italian

Wilfried Wilms
wwilms@du.edu
German