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ACLA Site Navigation ACLA Conference The ACLA Executive Committee endorses the March 11 2024 statement of the Middle East Studies Association on the cultural genocide perpetrated against the Palestinian people. Read the full statement here. quote The American Comparative Literature Association founded in 1960 is the principal learned society in the United States for scholars whose work involves several literatures and cultures as well as the premises of crosscultural literary study itself. Become a Member In its largest sense comparative literature promotes the study of intercultural relations that cross national boundaries multicultural relations within a particular society and the interactions between literature and other forms of human activity including the arts the sciences philosophy and cultural artifacts of all kinds.