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October 15, 2007

Cass co-edits collections keeping comparative literature flourishing

Jeffrey Cass, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, is certainly doing his part do keep comparative literature thriving.

He co-edited 鈥淚nterrogating Orientalism鈥� (The Ohio State UP, 2006), which was released in 2006. Another co-edited collection, 鈥淩omantic Border Crossings鈥� (Ashgate, 2008), will be published early in 2008.

In addition to his other duties, Cass will also teach a course on the Romantics in the spring of 2008, which will include work from these two books.

鈥淭his collection of essays assesses, from a comparative literature perspective, the claim that comparative literature is a dying discipline, as suggested by theorists like Gayatri Spivak, David Damrosch, and Susan Bassnett,鈥� Cass said. 鈥淔ar from being moribund, however, the writers in this collection effectively demonstrate that comparative literature, particularly that practiced by Romanticists, is alive and well.鈥�

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