January 14, 2014

ACLA Conference Data, 1993-2014

ACLA Report on the Discipline

In the last decade the ACLA conference grew from 525 participants (in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2004) to over 3,000 participants for the 2014 New York conference. A list of conference attendees from 1993 to 2014, with a chart.

Facts & Figures

January 14, 2014

ACLA Harry Levin Book Prize Winners, 2004-2014

ACLA Report

In 2013 the Levin Prize, formerly awarded every two years to the best book in "literary history or criticism," began to be awarded to the best first book in the field of Comparative Literature. A list of winners and links to award citations for the last decade.

Facts & Figures

March 3, 2014

ACLA Rene Wellek Book Prize Winners, 2004-2014

ACLA Report

In 2013 the Wellek Prize, formerly awarded every two years to the best book in "literary theory," began to be awarded annually to the best book in the field of Comparative Literature. A list of winners and links to award citations for the last decade.

Facts & Figures

March 8, 2014

Report on the Undergraduate Comparative Literature Curriculum: Update

Corinne Scheiner

This report on the national (US) state of the Comparative Literature undergraduate curriculum, updates the conclusions of a similar report done in 2005. As author Corinne Scheiner notes, early questions about whether Comparative Literautre should even have undergraduate programs (visible in the 1965 and 1975 reports) now seem to have entirely disappeared. The practical implications of the theoretical questions debated decennially in the reports on the state of the discipline, she suggests, are most evident in the structures of the undergraduate curriculum.

Facts & Figures

August 11, 2014

Graduate Program Size Data

ACLA Report

The data below was collected in Spring and Summer 2014; it reflects the overall program size (total number of students enrolled) and the number of funded students accepted, on average, over the last three years. To add data to this chart, please contact Michelle Decker (mdecker at psu.edu).