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

Books Roundtable

May 14, 2025, 3 p.m.

Peer Review Workshop

May 9, 2025, 2 p.m.

A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre

May 8, 2025, 7 p.m.

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Groups

LLC5: Incarceration and Decarceration

Open to New People Active since: 2013

Syracuse University
Cornell University
University of Rochester

LLC9: Critical Theory and the Global: The Politics of Translation

Inactive since: 2021

Cornell University
University of Rochester

LLC10: Sound and Media

Inactive since: 2021

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
Cornell University
University of Rochester
Colgate University
Skidmore College

LLC17: Jewish Studies

Syracuse University
Cornell University

LLC19: Networking Iroquoia

Open to New People Inactive since: 2022

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
University of Rochester

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 since: 2021

Cornell University
Hamilton College

LLC26: Composition, Labor, and Embodiment

Inactive since: 2021

Syracuse University
Cornell University
University of Rochester
Rochester Institute of Technology

LLC29: Bringing Latin to Life: Transforming Latin Pedagogy for Maximal Inclusion and Impact

Inactive since: 2021

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
Cornell University

LLC31: Rethinking Imperial Assemblages

Inactive since: 2021

Syracuse University
Cornell University
Colgate University

LLC32: Hemispheric Indigenous Studies

Syracuse University
University of Rochester

LLC33: Religion and Morality in China

Syracuse University
University of Rochester

LLC34: World Gender in Translation

Open to New People Inactive since: 2022

LLC1: The Future(s) of Microhistory

LLC2: The Chinese Quest for Modernity from the Religious Perpsective

LLC3: Early Modern Thinking

LLC4: Decolonial Feminisms

LLC6: Nineteenth Century Studies

LLC7: Inclusion/Exclusion in the Modern Middle East

LLC8: Religion & Literature

LLC13: Word and Image in Spain and the Americas

Open to New People Active since: 2013

Syracuse University
Colgate University
Le Moyne College

LLC14

LLC15: Facismo: Making, Thinking & Imagining History

LLC16: CNY Poets and Writers

LLC18: Early Modern Spanish

LLC20: LALAAB-Latin American Literature and Arts Across Borders

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 Inactive since: 2022

Cornell University
University of Rochester

LLC37: Early Modern Hispanic Studies

Open to New People Active since: 2021

Syracuse University
University of Rochester
Colgate University
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
Skidmore College

LLC39: War Ecologies

Active since: 2023 Closed Group of Collaborators

Syracuse University
Cornell University
University of Rochester
Rochester Institute of Technology

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

LLC42: Textiles as Expressive Practice in the University Classroom and Campus Community

Open to New People Active since: 2024

University of Rochester
Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Rochester Institute of Technology

LLC43: Ecological Imaginaries of Africa and the African Diaspora

Open to New People Active since: 2024

Syracuse University
Skidmore College
St. Lawrence University