AURA: The Yale Undergraduate Journal of Comparative Literature

01/07/2016

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We are pleased to announce that AURA: The Yale Undergraduate Journal of Comparative Literature is now accepting submissions. Undergraduate writers are strongly encouraged to submit academic papers with an interdisciplinary, intertextual, or translational focus. We welcome high-quality papers on any topic. Papers should be written in English and at least 3,000 words in length.

Please email your paper to [email protected] by noon EST on Friday, February 12, 2016. (Multiple submissions are permitted, although a maximum of one piece per author will be published in a given issue.) Please omit your name from the submission document, as all work will be reviewed anonymously, but include the following information in the body of the email:

Title of work
Your name
Your college and class year
Your email address

Further information and previous issues of AURA are available at http://aurajournal.org/

The authors of selected pieces will be contacted at the end of February, and the issue will be published in April of 2016. Please feel free to contact [email protected] with any questions or concerns. Thank you, and we look forward to receiving your submissions!

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06/19/2015

Thank you to all who submitted pieces to AURA this year!

Featured in the Spring 2015 issue are an interview with Carlos Eire, the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University, and the following pieces by undergraduates:

“A Translation of Extracts from the Canti and Idilli Written by Giacomo Leopardi in the Period 1818-1822″ by David Slinn

“Nothing Out the Window: Chaucer’s Emelye and the Problem of Definition as Read Through Lyn Hejinian’s My Life” by Grace Catherine Greiner

“Interrupted Bodies: A Dialogue on Female Speech” by Mary Mussman and Margaret Schultz

To view or download issues, please head to our website: aurajournal.org. Have a wonderful summer!

03/23/2015

Aatish Taseer on contemporary Indian literature: "This is not the voice of a confident country. It sounds rather like a country whose painful relationship with language has left it voiceless."

We have been writing in the language of our own oppression.

01/13/2015

Only three days remaining until our submission deadline! We look forward to receiving your work.

01/06/2015

SUBMISSIONS REMINDER: The submission deadline for the Spring 2015 issue is noon EST on Friday, January 16, 2015.

Please email your paper to [email protected] . (Multiple submissions are permitted, although a maximum of one piece per author will be published in a given issue.) Please omit your name from the submission document, as all work will be reviewed anonymously, but include the following information in the body of the email:

Title of work
Your name
Your college and class year
Your email address

The authors of selected pieces will be contacted in mid-February, and the issue will be published in April of 2015. Please feel free to contact [email protected] with any questions or concerns.

01/05/2015

From The American Reader: the politics of "world literature" and of translation.

Criticism "Against World Literature": The Debate in Retrospect By Gloria Fisk Saint Jerome in His Study, Caravaggio (1605-1606) Tweet What does a critic oppose, exactly, when she takes a stand “against world literature”? Emily Apter takes that polemic as the title of her latest book (Verso, 2013), b…

12/30/2014

In this week's New Yorker: the birth of the mass-market paperback and the transformation of American reading culture.

Louis Menand on the paperback revolution that transformed publishing: did it transform culture, too?

12/03/2014

Mark Strand passed away this weekend at the age of 80. He gave a public reading at Yale last month. The Beinecke has made the recording available here: http://bit.ly/1yipVm6

11/28/2014

From the New Yorker: Erich Auerbach and the making of "Mimesis."

No one knows how he came to Istanbul: whether he caught the Orient Express in Munich or drove from Marburg to Genoa and boarded a ship for Athens. We know that he arrived in September, 1936, and was joined, two months later, by his wife and thirteen-year-old son. We know that he hadn’t wanted to go,…

11/23/2014

We are pleased to announce that AURA: The Yale Undergraduate Journal of Comparative Literature is now accepting submissions. Student writers are strongly encouraged to submit academic papers with an interdisciplinary, intertextual, or translational focus. We welcome high-quality papers on any topic.

Please email your paper to [email protected] by noon EST on Friday, January 16, 2015. (Multiple submissions are permitted, although a maximum of one piece per author will be published in a given issue.) Please omit your name from the submission document, as all work will be reviewed anonymously, but include the following information in the body of the email:

Title of work
Your name
Your college and class year
Your email address

The authors of selected pieces will be contacted in mid-February, and the issue will be published in April of 2015. Please feel free to contact [email protected] with any questions or concerns.

11/19/2014

From the archives of the Paris Review: an interview with George Steiner.

The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.

12/09/2013

REMINDER: Submit to the 2014 issue of AURA!

The deadline for submissions is noon EST this Wednesday, December 11th. Email submissions to [email protected].