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Welcome to the UCI Libraries' English Language and Literature Research Guide. This guide serves as your portal to the UCI Libraries and its resources.

Please direct any questions to Richard Cho, your Research Librarian for Humanities and Literature.

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Subjects: Comparative Literature, English, Philosophy

Recognizing the Biases in Academic Scholarship

In order to critically engage with scholarly discourse, researchers need to be aware of the inherent problems within the system of academic scholarship. Those problems could be anything from standards set by white hegemonic systems to subject terms with implicit biases. By acknowledging these inherent problems, all scholars can participate in improving the academic and public discourse.

Just In! UCI Libraries New Books Lobby

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut; Adrian Nathan West (Translator)
Call Number: PQ8098.422.A215 V4713 2020 (New Books Lobby)
ISBN: 9781681375663
Publication Date: 2021-09-28
A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction.
People from My Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami; Ted Goossen (Translator)
Call Number: PL855.A859 K6613 2021
ISBN: 9781593767112
Publication Date: 2021-11-30
From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interlinking stories that masterfully blend the mundane and the mythical--"fairy tales in the best Brothers Grimm tradition: naïf, magical, and frequently veering into the macabre."
The Promise by Damon Galgut
Call Number: PR9369.3.G28 P76 2021
ISBN: 9781609456580
Publication Date: 2021-04-06
A modern family saga in post-Apartheid South Africa written in gorgeous prose by three-time Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut.

Recent Faculty Publications

The Last Great Road Bum by Héctor Tobar
Call Number: PS3570.O22 L37 2020
ISBN: 9780374720407
Publication Date: 2020-08-25
In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times.
Being-Moved: Rhetoric as the Art of Listening by Daniel M. Gross
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780520340466
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
If rhetoric is the art of speaking, who is listening? In Being-Moved, Daniel M. Gross provides an answer, showing when and where the art of speaking parted ways with the art of listening - and what happens when they intersect once again.
Algebraic Art by Andrea K. Henderson
Call Number: NX543 .H47 2018 (in Science Library)
ISBN: 9780198809982
Publication Date: 2018-06-12