The British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA)

Triennial Conference

2020 Triennial Conference of the British Comparative Literature Association.

The conference will be held at Queen’s University, Belfast, 15-17 September 2020, and the theme is Randomness.

Culture and Quarantine

The British Comparative Literature Association, in the light of the unprecedented changes that the world is undergoing, and affirming that the discipline of comparative literature is predicated on the breaking down of the borders between literatures and cultures, invites reflections and engagement with what it is to live in the age of confinement.

Culture & Quarantine

The British Comparative Literature Association, in the light of the unprecedented changes that the world is undergoing, and affirming that the discipline of comparative literature is predicated on the breaking down of the borders between literatures and cultures, invites reflections and engagement with what it is to live in the age of confinement.

Culture & Quarantine

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The BCLA welcomes applications for membership from UK and international scholars, researchers, authors and lecturers working in the field of comparative literature and related fields such as translation, creative writing and poetry.

BCLA History

The BCLA has a distinguished history: founded in 1975, it was created through the leadership and collaboration of Britain's preeminent intellectuals in the field of Comparative Literature.

Culture and Quarantine

The BCLA invites reflections from specialists in Comparative Literature on what it means to live in this age of confinement.

Malcolm Bowie

The Malcolm Bowie Memorial Lecture is held every two years in honour of Malcolm Bowie, president of the BCLA from 1998 to 2004.

John Dryden Translation Competition

The BCLA maintains its close links with the field of Translation Studies through the annual John Dryden Translation Competition: members have one free entry.

Comparative Critical Studies

Comparative Critical Studies, the BCLA's journal, is published in three issues a year by Edinburgh University Press. Full members receive each issue free.

Studies in Comparative Literature

The BCLA collaborates with the publisher Legenda in the book series Studies in Comparative Literature (SICL). Forty-seven titles have been published.

BCLA Event
Autumn 2020

Online Roundtable and Panel Discussion: Randomness and Culture in the Age of Quarantine

More than a hundred comparatists from around the world participated in an online webinar hosted by the BCLA on September 16, 2020, featuring a series of talks by four keynote speakers, Professor Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Professor Kylie Crane, Professor Maghiel Van Crevel and Professor Peter Arnds. This was followed by a round table discussion, with questions open to all the participants.

Podcasts of the talks on the day and other resources from the event will be available on the BCLA website shortly.

BCLA Postgraduate Bursary Awards Now Open (Deadline 30 November 2020)

9th September 2020 No Comments

Download the BCLA Postgraduate Bursary Application Form The British Comparative Literature Association is pleased to announce its scheme of postgraduate bursaries, designed to support attendance at conferences, research trips or …

BCLA/BCLT John Dryden Translation Competition 2020-2021 now open (deadline 8 February 2021)

23rd August 2020 No Comments

CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF ENTRIES: 8 February 2021 Download John Dryden Competition Entry form The British Comparative Literature Association and the British Centre for Literary Translation are pleased to …

Call for Contributions to the British Comparative Literature Association Web Archive, “Culture and Quarantine”

16th April 2020 No Comments

The British Comparative Literature Association would like to invite its Executive, International Corresponding members, members and followers of the website, together with affiliated members of …

IMLR/Convocation: Seminars in World Literature and Translation: Beyond the Monolingual

9th September 2020 No Comments

Recent years have seen the emergence of ‘world literature’ both within, alongside, and sometimes as an alternative to, Comparative Literature, with new programmes appearing across universities …

Funded PhD Project: Form, Matter, Truth: Thinking literary form through plasticity and performativity, University of Dundee (deadline Monday 5 October 2020)

2nd August 2020 No Comments

About the project: The writer to the critic: ‘…pure thought and the quest for truth per se can never aspire to anything but to the …

Funded PhD project: The Literature House in the Digital Age: New Directions for Literary Heritage, Edinburgh Napier University (deadline Friday 30 October 2020)

5th July 2020 No Comments

This Applied Research Collaborative Studentship, supported by the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities (SGSAH), offers a position for an interdisciplinary PhD researcher …

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Triennial Conference

2020 Triennial Conference of the British Comparative Literature Association.

BRITISH COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION

Culture and Quarantine

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Culture & Quarantine

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Culture & Quarantine

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Culture & Quarantine

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BCLA Event Autumn 2020

Online Roundtable and Panel Discussion: Randomness and Culture in the Age of Quarantine

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Autumn 2020