From late May to mid-June, 2026, Sheldon Lu conducted research and gave a series of lectures in Taipei, Taiwan, and several cities in China. He gave a keynote speech at the international conference “Celluloid Fabulation and Trans-Eat Asian Life” jointly organized by National Taiwan University and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taipei, Taiwan. He also gave lectures at Academia Sinica and Soochow University in Taipei.
We are delighted to share that Benjamin Fong will join Texas State University as an Assistant Professor of Global Cinema in the Department of English beginning in fall 2026.
Hello COM colleagues and students. I hope the first couple of weeks of the quarter have gone well for you. I am writing with a few announcements of recent achievements by members of our COM community.
School pride will be swelling among University of California, Davis, students as they start fall classes Wednesday (Sept. 24).
The campus tied for No. 9 among the nation’s top public universities and earned accolades for innovation, social mobility and more in the 2026 U.S. News Best Colleges rankings, published Monday (Sept. 22).
This is the fifth consecutive year the campus has been ranked among the media outlet’s top 10 public universities.
Professor of English and Comparative Literature Joshua Clover died on April 26, 2025. Here Joshua’s students remember him.
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Joshua Clover (1962-2025). Joshua was a professor, theorist, scholar, editor, and poet, but first and foremost, he was a communist. Indeed, his political commitments were at the core of everything he did: from the streets to the courthouses, the reading groups to the letter-writing nights, he was a partisan of the real movement wherever it could be found.
