"Around me I hear that eclat of the world--politics, produce,/ The announcements of recognized things" (Walt Whitman, "As I Walk These Broad, Majestic Days")

General program information about Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at Penn can be found on the Comp Lit website, including course listings, faculty profiles, and application information [soon!]. Let's instead think of the ÉCLAT! site as the virtual grad lounge.

As graduate students, we are convinced that the silhouette of the discipline of "Comparative Literature" is darkly visible in the intersections of what we all study. Find out what texts and approaches are hip by investigating the brand new Reading List for the M.A. Exam. You can find a sample syllabus of the companion course, Comparative Literature 501, at Professor Jim English's website.

Comparative Literature Programs Elsewhere on the Web:

Brown University. During your virtual visit to Brown be sure to check out their Modern Culture and Media and English sites, and hypertext theorist George Landow's home page.
Columbia University, Center for Comparative Literature and Society
Columbia University, English and Comparative Literature
Duke University, Graduate Program in Literature
George Washington University, Program in Human Sciences
Indiana University
Penn State University
Rutgers University
University of Arkansas
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Davis
University of California-Irvine
UCLA
University of Chicago, Comparative Studies in Literature
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Maryland, College Park
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Oregon
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Literary Studies
Washington University, St. Louis

CANADA:
University of British Columbia, Programme in Comparative Literature
Université de Montréal, Litterature comparée
The School of Comparative Literary Studies at Carleton University (in Ottawa) maintains a list of other Comp Lit sites, together with "Areas of potential interests for the literarily inclined".

UK

British Comparative Literature Association

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There are also sites for the American Comparative Literature Association (a telnet connection; use "aclanet" as the login) and International Comparative Literature Association.

Regardless of what texts, periods, or media we prefer to study, there's always room for Theory. There's the Spoon Home Page (theory at Virginia), THEORY: World 3 Voices, Theory and Culture (Marist), and Corporeal Theory Homepage (Duke), for starters. The Voice of the Shuttle (see below) has a section devoted to Contemporary Theory, as well as separate sections for Technology of Writing, Women's Studies, Gender Theory, and Queer Theory, and "Minority Studies". Carnegie-Mellon's English Server (also see below) devotes a section to Cultural Theory. Under the rubric of The UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource that university's department of Special Collections has placed on-line a searchable archive of bibliographies which extensively index and supplement the work of and about such theory paragons as Derrida, Saïd, Cixous, Jameson, and Iser. The University of Sheffield offers the Bakhtin Centre, and the University of Denver a site dedicated to Semiotics. Also based in Colorado is the Marx/Engels Archive. You may also want to check out the Bibliography of Literary Theory and Criticism.

Do not miss Alan Liu's excellent Voice of the Shuttle and Jack Lynch's monumental (can hypertext be monumental?) Literary Research Tools on the Net: these two sites are loaded with so much that a brief list of highlights cannot do them justice. Chorus, a resource for arts & humanities academic computing, and the HUMBUL Gateway at Oxford can also get you to many interesting places. Carnegie-Mellon offers its "The English Server", which includes several actual e-texts, and our Penn compadres have a wonderful English Web. With a more bizarre stance towards "theory" and culture the University of Florida offers an experiment in postmodern theory, media, and technology which they call Fetishturgy--inspired by the truly offbeat Gregory Ulmer.

Penn's own Van Pelt Library.
Penn Library's link to Electronic Online Journals.
Library of Congress
Bodleian Library WWW Server. Via BARD--Bodleian Access to Remote Databases you can investigate internet resources geared to such topics as Gender and Sexuality, Regional and Cultural Studies (focusing on non-Western servers), and of course Literature.
Portico: online information about the British Library
General internet directories also fall under the expanding purview of the "library". Yahoo and the WorldWideWeb Virtual Library link to servers devoted to such subjects as "Literature" and "Culture," as well as to multitudinous others, of varying degrees of relevance to the field of Comparative Literature.

are seminally represented by the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities--see especially the list of "Related Readings", Princeton & Rutgers's Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (see also the homepage for the associated Humanist electronic seminar, and the University of Toronto's Center for Computing in the Humanities. Jack Lynch's Computing in the Humanities page ends with a lengthy list of Humanities Computing sites.

Furthermore:
• Penn's own Center for the Computer Analysis of Texts has a catalog of its own e-text offerings, and compiles other e-text sites on their Text Archives page.
• Oxford's Alex and Oxford Text Archive
• Virginia's Electronic Text Archive
• Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative

Glance down at the Virtual Coffee Table and see if anything catches your eye. There's a lot to choose from: journals like The Chronicle of Higher Education, Critical Inquiry, Signs, CLCWeb, Technology & Culture, SURFACES, billed as "revue électronique de littérature comparée", Postmodern Culture, Stanford Humanities Review, Public Culture, the Bad Subjects site associated with the eponymous Berkeley journal and collective, and Hyperjournal, which connects to many e-journals. Check out CTHEORY, a journal of "theory, technology, and culture." There's also stuff from the National Association of Graduate and Professional Students and the National Endowment for the Humanities, with $14,000 dissertation grant information. There is also the new online journal CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, published by Purdue University Press.

Comp Lit Graduate Students:

Stephen Hock Mark Sample Dan White

Reigning Web Gurus:

Jack Lynch Jim O'Donnell Jay Treat

Michael Strong and Brett Wilson were the original developers of ÉCLAT! and associated virtual spaces. That role has since passed to Stephen Hock. All three are past or present graduate students in comparative literature and literary theory at the University of Pennsylvania.