Non-university research organisations

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)

The American Comparative Literature Association, founded in 1960, is the principal learned society in the United States for scholars whose work involves several literatures and cultures as well as the premises of cross-cultural literary study itself.

In its largest sense, comparative literature promotes the study of intercultural relations that cross national boundaries, multicultural relations within a particular society, and the interactions between literature and other forms of human activity, including the arts, the sciences, philosophy, and cultural artifacts of all kinds.

The members of the ACLA are thus joined not by a national, linguistic, or methodological investment held in common, but by the shared condition of teaching and writing across nations, languages, and cultures--and hence by their lively interest in comparison as both a theoretical and a practical matter.

The ACLA sponsors three scholarly journals - Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Studies, and Symploké.

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Fields of research

Comparative Literature

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Calls for papers

“Unavailable: The Joy of Not Responding,” ACLA Seminar, Virtual Conference, April 8-11, 2021; Call for Proposals: ACLA 2021 Annual Meeting is Going Virtual!; Postcolonial Hauntologies (ACLA 2021); Theorize Yourself: Autotheory and Psychoanalysis (ACLA 2021); Diálogos transatlánticos: Redes femeninas en los siglos XIX y XX / Transatlantic Dialogues: Women Networks between 19th and 20th centuries (ACLA 2021); Epistemic Justice in Literary Studies (ACLA 2021); Repurposing Enlightenment (ACLA 2021); I want to die: The contemporary writer and their suicide, ACLA 2022 at National Taiwan Normal University; Unjust Philologies in the "Modern" University, ACLA 2022, Taipei; Magister Mundi? Hermann Hesse’s Global Impact (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline); Emotional Communities in the Early Period (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline); Debating World Literature through National Literature (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline); New Workers’ Literature: Re-Imagining Global Subaltern Narratives (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline); ‘Prompting’ World Literature: Gerenative AI, Comparative Aesthetics, New Hegemonies, New Peripheries? (ACLA 2025); Inter-Asian Literary Relations (ACLA 2025); Emergence of New World Imagination in the 19th and 20th Century: Understanding of the Global Colonial Countries through the Lens of Auto-Biographical Narratives, Memoirs And Travelogues (ACLA 2025); Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality (ACLA 2025); Orientation to Texts and Knowledge: From Antiquity to AI (ACLA 2025); Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation (ACLA 2025); Reading the Archive of the Unexpected: Aspiration, Violence, and the Labor of Development in the Narratives on Reading in Latin America.(ACLA 2025); speculation I riddle I proemdra (ACLA 2025); Dismantling the matrix of oppression in Atwood's "the Testaments" and Parsipur's "Women without Men" (ACLA 2025); Finding New Kinships: Queer Homecomings in East Asian Literature and Media (ACLA 2025); Alternative Poetics of Environment in South Asia (ACLA 2025); The Uses of Prose (ACLA 2025); The Roaring of the Twenties: Modernity and the Energetic Turn (ACLA 2025); Imagining Extinction: Afterness, Fossils and Fiction (ACLA 2025); Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future (ACLA 2025); What Are the Key Concepts of Literary Study? (ACLA 2025); The Blue of the Plums is the Memory of the Sea: Poetic Ecologies of Displacement (ACLA 2025); The World Republic of Rejection (ACLA 2025); Oceans in World Literature: from the Middle Ages to Modern Times (ACLA 2025); Symphonic Discourses and Connections for Interracial Alliances in Asian Diaspora and AAPI Communities (ACLA 2025); Comparative Literature's Cold War (ACLA 2025); Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures (ACLA 2025); Wither the Great Books? Or Whither Great Books? (ACLA 2025); Web3 and the Question Concerning Technology (ACLA 2025); James Baldwin and the Eruption of the Ethical (ACLA 2025); Varieties of the Impersonal (ACLA 2025); Towards a Global Discourse: The “Ethical Turn” in Western and Arab-Islamic Thought (ACLA 2025); Aesthetics and Ethics of the Fragment in Remembering and Forgetting Historical Violence (ACLA 2025); Powers of the Inhuman: Representations of the Working Class in the New International Division of Humanity (ACLA 2025); “Beyond Social Death?”: Afro-Pessimism in Literature, Film and Television (ACLA 2025); A Planetary Text Notes On Spoken and Word Poetry, Radical Improvisation and Universality (ACLA 2025); Documentary Fever (ACLA 2025); Literature and International Development (ACLA 2025); Extractivism and Nation Building in the Long Nineteenth Century; Ciné-Poetics of Time in the Global South (ACLA 2025); The An-Arché of Language: Embracing Chaos, Complexity, and Non-Productivity in Translation (ACLA 2025); Modernism in the Twenty-First Century (ACLA 2025); Comparative Literature beyond Epistemic colonization (ACLA 2025); Unreliable Narration in Nineteenth- To Twenty-First-Century Fiction (ACLA 2025); The Ends of the Road: Rethinking the Borders of the Picaresque (ACLA 2025); Relationality in Queer, Trans, and Crip Asian/American and Asian Diasporic Literatures and Cultural Critiques (ACLA 2025); Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential (ACLA 2025); Cultures of Monoculture (ACLA 2025)

Events

ACLA 2020: Cancelled; ACLA 2021: The American Comparative Literature Association's 2021 Annual Meeting (April 8-11, 2021, Montreal); ACLA 2022: The American Comparative Literature Association's Annual Meeting, National Taiwan Normal University

Institutions

Association internationale de littérature comparée (AILC) / International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)

Websites

ACLA Report on the State of the Discipline [of Comparative Literature] 2014-2015
Date of publication: 12.12.2018
Last edited: 19.06.2019