Welcome to the DLCL

The Division brings together individuals dedicated to the study of literatures, cultures, and languages from humanistic and interdisciplinary perspectives.

The Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages hosts five departments, as well as the Stanford Language Center.

Events

November
30
Date
Thursday, November 30, 2023. 9:00am - 10:30am
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 252

𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚊 is thrilled to invite you to our first event of the 2023-24 academic year: a hybrid discussion session of "On the Emergence of…

November
30
Date
Thursday, November 30, 2023. 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Rm 216

Please join the upcoming Workhop in Poetics event with Roanne Kantor (English, Stanford).

Talk title: Recovering the Voice of Region:…

December
1
Date
Friday, December 1, 2023. 10:00am - 11:00am
Location
Zoom

Please join the Caribbean Studies Reading Group (CSRG) in the fifth meeting of the Graduate Foundations in Black Geographies Series with guest…

News

Dr. Cintia Santana reads from her new book, The Disordered Alphabet, in the German Library at Stanford University.

On November 8, 2023, the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages hosted a book reading by Cintia Santana (Senior Lecturer, Comparative Literature) at Stanford University to showcase her newly published book, The Disordered Alphabet. Over 60 people attended the successful event where Dr.
"Fiestas Fit for a King: Contested Symbolic Regimes of Power in New Spain," by Nicole T. Hughes was published in Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 76, Issue 3 by Cambridge University Press in Fall 2023.
The winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2023, Europe’s top honour in the field, were celebrated with a high-level event held at the iconic Palazzo del Cinema at the Lido in Venice on September 28, 2023.

Research Unit

Focal Groups

DLCL Focal Groups bring together faculty members and graduate students who share academic interests ranging across and beyond singular languages and national literatures. Our Focal Groups are conceived as portals that open from the Division outward to the wider community of literary and humanities scholars. All Focal Groups include participants from humanities departments outside the DLCL. Each focal group maintains a research workshop at which both faculty and graduate students present and discuss their work. Some Focal Groups offer formal courses, and all groups are responsible for overseeing research-oriented endeavors, including sponsoring conferences, publications, podcasts, and other activities that disseminate the outcomes of their research.

Research Groups

DLCL Research Groups are collaborative groups that receive funding from the DLCL for one to three years. Graduate students from within the DLCL and other Stanford departments can start a research group by submitting a proposal during the Call for Proposals period each year in the spring for the following academic year.

Reading Groups

DLCL Reading Groups are smaller, student-run groups, centered around a specific area of literature. Unlike DLCL Focal Groups and Research Groups, Reading Groups do not require a Faculty PI, and typically hold internal meetings and discussions. DLCL Reading Groups are coordinated by DLCL graduate students and include students from within the DLCL and other Stanford departments.

Recent Publications