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What is the DLCL?
The Departments of Comparative Literature, French and Italian, German Studies, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, and Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Language Center, are housed in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages.
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New Spanish Major offered by the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures!
New Spanish major offered by the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures!
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Images of America: A DLCL Film Series
This DLCL Film Series seeks to explore the various ways in which “America” is reflected in different national cinemas. How is America seen from an outside perspective and how did America inspire the European imagination? We hope to follow these questions with this exemplary selection of cinematic masterpieces.
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Joseph Frank Memorial
20 May 2013
Joseph Frank, a professor emeritus of Slavic languages and literatures at Stanford, is remembered for his remarkable Dostoevsky biography series and a lifelong commitment to teaching.
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Lecture by Robert Casas Roigé: “Online Journalism and its Role in Ongoing Nation Building: the Spanish and Catalan Cases”
21 May 2013
On May 21st, Robert Casas Roigé, Stanford ILAC professor, delivers his lecture, “Online Journalism and its Role in Ongoing Nation Building: the Spanish and Catalan Cases.”
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Lecture by Dr. Philipp Rösler on "Think Big: Starting-up ‘Made in Germany’ in the Digital Economy"
21 May 2013
Please join the Center for Global Business and the Economy for the next speaker in our Global Speaker Series. Philipp Rösler, German Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Economics and Technology
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Three Reichs and You are Out: Germany in the 21st Century
28 May 2013
Germany has always been too strong or too weak for Europe. Now it is Number One again, but what a difference 70 years of democratic development and European integration have made.
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Through the Looking-glass of Language: Clarice Lispector meets Guimarães Rosa
5 June 2013
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro is professor of Anthropology at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has taught at Chicago, Cambridge, Manchester, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
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Recent Publications

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Iberian Modalities: A Relational Approach to the Study of Culture in the Iberian Peninsula
Resina, Joan Ramon
Liverpool University Press: 2013
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Dreams of Waking: An Anthology of Iberian Lyric Poetry (1400-1700)
Barletta, Vincent, Mark L. Bajus, and Cici Malik
University of Chicago Press: 2013
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A Courtier’s Mirror: Cultivating Elite Identity in Thomasin von Zerclaere's Welscher Gast
Starkey, Kathryn
University of Notre Dame Press: 2013
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Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung
Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich
Stanford University Press: 2012
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The Cinema of Tarkovsky: Labyrinths of Space and Time
Skakov, Nariman
I.B. Tauris: 2012
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Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico
Saldívar, José David
Duke University Press: 2012
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Uncivil Unions: The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism & Romanticism
Daub, Adrian
University of Chicago Press: 2012
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Songbook: How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe
Galvez, Marisa
University of Chicago Press: 2012
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The Routledge Intermediate Persian Course
Brookshaw, Dominic Parviz, and Pouneh Shabani Jadidi
Routledge: 2012
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Ends of Enlightenment
Bender, John
Stanford University Press: 2012
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The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age
Palumbo-Liu, David
Duke University Press: 2012
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Ruse and Wit: The Humorous in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Narrative
Brookshaw, Dominic Parviz
Ilex Foundation: 2012
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Zukünftigkeit
Eshel, Amir
Jüdischer Verlag: 2012
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Greene, Roland, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, and Paul Rouzer
Princeton University Press: 2012
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How to Do Things with Fictions
Landy, Joshua
Oxford University Press: 2012