Literature, Language, and Culture

About

Activities in this cluster examine diverse literatures, languages, genres, time periods, geographies, and cultures. Working groups take up various topics, from examining the politics of writing, poetics, and translation, to examining a particular form/genre, to unpacking Eurocentric frameworks and contesting settler-colonial mindsets. This cluster, originally formed around collaborations in early modern studies, 18th-Century studies, Victorian studies, and the study of contemporary literatures, languages, and cultures, now includes many additional fields, including Ethnic studies, Latinx/Latin-American studies, Afro-Caribbean studies, Jewish studies, South Asian studies, Asian and Asian American studies, Native American and Indigenous studies, African American studies, Middle Eastern studies, (de)carceral studies, women’s/gender studies, disability studies, queer studies, labor studies, restorative justice studies, and more.

Topics

Linguistics Literature

Activities

The Next Monsoon: Climate Change and Contemporary Cultural Production in South Asia

Oct. 27, 2023, 9:30 a.m.

Fall Writing Retreat

Oct. 20, 2023, noon

Creative Writing & Archives Mini-Seminar with M.C. Kinniburgh

Oct. 13, 2023, 10 a.m.

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Groups

LLC5: Incarceration and Decarceration
Open to New People Active since: 2013
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
  • Cornell University
LLC9: Critical Theory and the Global: The Politics of Translation
Active since: 2013
  • University of Rochester
  • Cornell University
LLC10: Sound and Media
Active since: 2013
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
LLC11: Perspectives on Europe from the Periphery
Active since: 2015 Closed Group of Collaborators
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • Colgate University
LLC12: LELACS (Lake Erie Latin American Cultural Studies)
Open to New People Active since: 2013
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
  • Cornell University
  • Colgate University
  • Skidmore College
LLC17: Jewish Studies
Inactive
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
LLC19: Networking Iroquoia
Open to New People Active since: 2016
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
LLC22: Health Humanities: Medicine, Disease, Disability, and Culture
Open to New People Active since: 2019
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
LLC23: Social and Cultural Sustainability in South Asia
Open to New People Active since: 2019
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
LLC24: Small Press Reading Series
Open to New People Active since: 2019
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
  • Colgate University
  • Hamilton College
LLC25: Gender and Class in the Novel
Inactive
  • Cornell University
  • Hamilton College
LLC26: Composition, Labor, and Embodiment
Inactive
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
  • Cornell University
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
LLC29: Bringing Latin to Life: Transforming Latin Pedagogy for Maximal Inclusion and Impact
Inactive
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • Le Moyne College
LLC30: Culture and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century New York
Open to New People Active since: 2019
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
  • Cornell University
LLC31: Rethinking Imperial Assemblages
Inactive
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • Colgate University
LLC32: Hemispheric Indigenous Studies
Inactive
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
LLC33: Religion and Morality in China
Inactive
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
LLC34: World Gender in Translation
Open to New People Inactive
LLC1: The Future(s) of Microhistory
Inactive since: 2017
LLC2: The Chinese Quest for Modernity from the Religious Perpsective
Inactive since: 2017
LLC3: Early Modern Thinking
LLC4: Decolonial Feminisms
Inactive since: 2017
LLC6: Nineteenth Century Studies
Inactive since: 2018
LLC7: Inclusion/Exclusion in the Modern Middle East
Inactive since: 2018
LLC8: Religion & Literature
LLC13: Word and Image in Spain and the Americas
Open to New People Active since: 2013
  • Syracuse University
  • Le Moyne College
  • Colgate University
LLC14
Inactive since: 2013
LLC15: Facismo: Making, Thinking & Imagining History
LLC16: CNY Poets and Writers
Inactive since: 2017
LLC18: Early Modern Spanish
Inactive since: 2016
LLC20: LALAAB-Latin American Literature and Arts Across Borders
Inactive since: 2019
LLC21: Gender and Sexuality Writing Collective
Open to New People Active since: 2018
  • University of Rochester
  • Hobart & William Smith Colleges
LLC27: Community-Engaged Public Humanities

This Working Group was changed to HF3 in March 2020.

LLC28: Re-Imagining the Discipline: German Studies, the Humanities, and the University
Open to New People Active since: 2019
  • Cornell University
  • Colgate University
  • Hamilton College
LLC35: Borders, Captivity, and Memory in Transnational Italy and the Mediterranean
Open to New People Active since: 2021
  • University of Rochester
  • Cornell University
LLC37: Early Modern Hispanic Studies
Open to New People Active since: 2021
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
  • Hobart & William Smith Colleges
LLC36: Latin American and Caribbean Culture: Literature and Music Project @ La Casita
Open to New People Active since: 2022
  • Syracuse University
  • Colgate University
  • Hobart & William Smith Colleges
LLC38: Aestheticism & Decadence
Open to New People Active since: 2022
  • Cornell University
  • Le Moyne College
LLC39: War Ecologies
Active since: 2023 Closed Group of Collaborators
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
  • Cornell University
LLC40: Mexicanists of Central New York
Open to New People Active since: 2023
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • Hamilton College
  • Hobart & William Smith Colleges
  • Skidmore College
LLC41: Code-Meshing
Active since: 2023 Closed Group of Collaborators
  • University of Rochester
  • Le Moyne College