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Comparative Literature & World Literature
In the form of print as well as online with open-access, Comparative Literature & World Literature(CLWL) is a peer-reviewed, full-text, quarterly academic journal in the field of comparative literatureand world literature, whose purpose is to make available in a timely fashion the multi-faceted aspects of the discipline. It publishes articles and book reviews, featuring those that explore disciplinary theories, comparative poetics, world literature and translation studies with particular emphasis on the dialogues of poetics and literatures in the context of globalization.

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School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University (P.R. China)
the College of Humanities, the University of Arizona, Tucson (USA)

Frequency: bi-annual
In the form of open-access, Comparative Literature & World Literature is a peer-reviewed, full-text, quarterly academic journal in the field of comparative literature, comparative culture and world literature, whose purpose is to make available in a timely fashion the multi-faceted aspects of the discipline. It features articles that explore literary and cultural history, criticism and theory, with particular emphasis on Chinese literary relations with Europe, North and South America and other Asian countries. It publishes comparative critical essays and book reviews. The editors hope to reflect the evolving, dynamic nature of the discipline from studies of national literatures to theoretical, interdisciplinary and cultural inquiries for promoting multidisciplinary studies and researches in literature and culture.
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Introduction to the College of Humanities, the University of Arizona, Tucson
The College of Humanities at the University of Arizona is a college with highly acclaimed and internationally recognized departments and programs contributing to the understanding of human societies, languages, literatures, artistic traditions, and cultures. The college has approximately 960 undergraduate majors, 180 graduate students across 31 degree programs in fields as diverse as foreign languages, literature, classics, studies of cultures from all over the world, applied linguistics, religious studies, and creative writing.
Faculty in all disciplines of the College produce scholarship and creative works that have achieved national renown. They engage in research that is published by key scholarly journals and university presses, supported by national and international grants and foundations, and presented at major scholarly conferences. Many of the college’s faculty members are award-winners and recognized leaders in their respective areas of expertise.
The College seeks to develop each individual's ability to communicate effectively and to analyze critically the foundations upon which cultural perceptions are built. In our programs in languages, literatures, cultures, and other areas of the humanities, we help students to explore works of human imagination and intellect from around the world, and to exercise their own minds creatively. Developing transcultural communication and understanding is the connecting thread for all of our endeavors.

Introduction to the Research Institute for Comparative Literature and World Literature at the School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University
The School of Chinese Language and Literature at Beijing Normal University traces its beginning to the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, which has been one of the longest standing departments in the discipline and claimed many influential men of letters such as Lu Xun among its faculty ranks. Since its establishment in 1902, the department has cultivated a culture of teaching and research that can be characterized as seeking truth with prudence, pursuing knowledge with determination, and engaging in scholarship with the concerns of the real world. For over a century the department and the school have made an immense contribution to the development and the modernization of Chinese literature and culture. In terms of academic reputation and research capability, the school has been consistently ranked among the very best in China.
The Research Institute of Comparative Literature and World Literature was founded in the early 1950s, thanks to Professor Mu Mutian, a renowned poet, translator, and scholar of foreign literature and Professor Peng Hui, an accomplished writer and translator. In 1952, the two professors established “the faculty division in foreign literature,” which was the first of its kind in China. A faculty group in comparative literature was formed in 1982, which would evolve into “the faculty division in comparative literature,” with Professors Chen Dun and Liu Xiangyu as its founding members. In 1998, the two divisions joined forces to become a single division in comparative literature and world literature, which was expanded into the Research Institute of Comparative Literature and World Literature five years later. Currently, the Institute consists of nine faculty members, including six full professors, two associate professors, and one lecturer. The academic team leaders are Professors Cao Shunqing and Wang Xiangyuan. The director is Professor Liu Hongtao and the deputy director is Professor Yang Junjie.
The Institute is authorized to enroll Master-level students in four areas: comparative literary theory, western literature and Chinese-Western comparative literature, Eastern literature and East-Asian comparative literature, and Ph.D.-level students also in four areas: comparative literature, western literature and Chinese-Western comparative literature, Eastern literature and Chinese-Japanese comparative literature, East-Asian comparative literature (China and Japan or China and Korea).
The Institute has four main research concerns:
Comparative literary theory, with the objective to explore the comparative literary theory and world literary theory with Chinese characteristics; focuses on developing the basic theory of comparative literature and world literature as well as its branches, such as comparative poetics, history of discipline, variation study, genealogy, translated literature, and world literature, etc.
Eastern literature and East-Asian comparative literature, focusing on literatures of Japan and Korea, which, along with China, form the East Asian cultural circle; studying the literary relations between China, Japan, Korea, and other countries in order to promote regional literary communication and academic development.
Western literature and Chinese-Western comparative literature: 1. Western literary history and Chinese-Western literary relations; 2. Studies of national literatures such as American, British, Russian, French, and German and bilateral literary relations between China and these countries. 3. Thematic studies such as Classics, Christianity and literature, literature and naturalism, modernist literature, literary Utopia, and etc.
The study of the dissemination of Chinese literature overseas: an interdisciplinary academic endeavor to examine the state of Chinese literature in a cross-cultural context with the goal of promoting Chinese-Western cultural exchange and enhancing the international stature of Chinese literature.
The Research Institute of Comparative Literature and World Literature presently engages in five institute-wide publication efforts: The Library of Comparative Literature, The Yearbook of Chinese Comparative Literature, Sourcebook of Overseas Chinese Literary Studies in the New Millennium, 21st Century North-American Chinese literary Studies Series, Series of Studies on the Overseas Transmission of Chinese Contemporary Literature, and the quarterly English journal Comparative Literature & World Literature, which will have its auspicious start in spring 2016.

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The right to reproduce scholarship published in the journal Comparative Literature & World Literature (ISSN 2469-4576 (Print) E-ISSN 2469-4584) is governed by both Chinese and US-American Law (Eg: the Copyright Acts), policies and regulations of School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University; The University of Arizona; Beijing Normal University Press, and other agreements. Any reproduction is prohibited without permission by the three sponsors above.
Beijing Normal University Press (P. R. China)
Institute of Literary Studies, Shanghai International Studies University

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