Talk with Paul Cato, Ph.D candidate from University of Chicago’s interdisciplinary Committee on Social Thought on his dissertation concerning the thought of James Baldwin. Talk will include commentary on his experience writing the first dissertation on an African American thinker in his department’s history and allow room for participants to grapple with the perils and possibilities inherent in attempts to expand the canon through their own work.
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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