Presidential Address

“Decolonizing Comparative Literature”

Comparative Literature has never taken indigeneity seriously, even though the encounter between the old and the new worlds was instrumental to the origin of its formation as a discipline. This forum gathers together several leading indigenous literary scholars across the Pacific to examine the much neglected relationship between indigeneity and Comparative Literature.

Speaker: Shu-mei Shih, Edward W. Said Professor of Comparative Literature, UCLA Moderator: Rei Terada, Professor of Comparative Literature, UC-Irvine, ACLA Vice President