Mission

The Global Literary and Cultural Studies Research Cluster fosters interdepartmental research collaborations that focus on literature, film, and other forms of cultural production in light of the critical approaches that have emerged out of the literary disciplines. Through the analysis of literary and cultural texts, regardless of medium (print, digital, film, etc.), GLCS seeks to integrate historical knowledge and current questions, global perspectives and local concerns, established scholarship and timely experimentation.

Committed to the innovative cross-fertilization of ideas, perspectives, and methodologies in the study of the textual, GLCS promotes the broad range of linguistic, critical, and cultural knowledges necessary to make sense of our contemporary moment through its links to our recent and distant past and our unfolding future. Acknowledging that the "global" is not without its contestations, we examine the pluralities of cultural experience, the pressures of homogenization, and the dislocations of national, ethnic, and linguistic identities produced through globalization. At the foundation of our critical engagement is the recognition that textual representations are often the primary means through which the voiceless and marginalized can be heard. Thus, we believe there is an intellectual imperative in our fields not only to explore the multiplicity of social and political perspectives that are articulated within global discourse, but also to consider the impact of global change on the material conditions represented by such articulations. By analyzing the creative, specific, experiential, and concrete, GLCS research initiatives offer valuable insight into the larger social, political, and cultural formations within which texts emerge.

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