2024

Literature Undergraduate Colloquium

JOIN US ON 

MAY 23, 2024

FOR THE

Twenty-fourth Annual 

Literature Undergraduate Colloquium

Event Schedule TBA. 




Read all the papers presented at the colloquium in 2023 below. 


   Colloquium Schedule:   


2024 schedule TBA—

Check back soon for more information! 


The Twenty-fourth Annual Undergraduate Colloquium will begin with opening remarks to introduce the panels. 


The event will consist of multiple panel discussions. Each panel will feature a discussion moderator from the UCSC Literature faculty, who will ask the presenters questions from the audience and engage in discussion about the papers. 


Full-length versions of all of the papers presented last year in 2023 can be found below. 


Undergraduate Program Director Camilo Gomez Rivas, will announce the Literature Department award winners at the conclusion of the discussion.

2023 PANELS

Boundaries and Crossings


Latin American and Latinx Literatures: Critical Ecologies, Migrations, and Feminisms


Global Antiquity


 Papers to be presented at the 2023 Colloquium are available to read below! 


 2023 Panel One:

Boundaries and Crossings

Butera, Anthony_Layli Long-Soldier’s Whereas_ How to Read the Voice of Oppression.pdf
Jimenez, Ivan_Mentalities.pdf
Melamed, Shavit_Parallel Principles_ Colonialism and Fascism in Camp de Thiaroye.pdf
Pistole, Jacqueline - LIT 102 - How Meaning is Created.pdf

 2023 Panel Two:

Latin American and Latinx Literatures: Critical Ecologies, Migrations, and Feminisms

Gutierrez, Mia_Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.pdf
Thaw - LIT 190L - Reconstructing Notions of Environmental Care Through the Configuration of the Maternal Figure in Fever Dream.pdf

 2023 Panel Three:

Global Antiquity

Ledeboer, Rachel_ Metamorphoses .pdf
Sethi, Sharan - LIT 114A - Contemporary Lenses on Yasna IX.pdf