Introduction: The Anxieties of Comparison / Charles Bernheimer -- Pt. 1. Three Reports to the American Comparative Literature Association. 1. The Levin Report, 1965. 2. The Greene Report, 1975. 3. The Bernheimer Report, 1993 -- Pt. 2. Three Responses to the Bernheimer Report at the MLA Convention, 1993. 4. Geist Stories / K. Anthony Appiah. 5. Comparative Literature and Global Citizenship / Mary Louise Pratt. 6. On the Complementarity of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies / Michael Riffaterre -- Pt. 3. Position Papers. 7. The Function of Criticism at the Present Time: The Promise of Comparative Literature / Ed Ahearn and Arnold Weinstein. 8. Comparative Exile: Competing Margins in the History of Comparative Literature / Emily Apter. 9. Must We Apologize? / Peter Brooks. 10. In the Name of Comparative Literature / Rey Chow. 11. Comparative Literature, at Last! / Jonathan Culler. 12. Literary Study in an Elliptical Age / David Damrosch.

13. Between Elitism and Populism: Whither Comparative Literature? / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. 14. Their Generation / Roland Greene. 15. Comparative Literature on the Feminist Edge / Margaret R. Higonnet. 16. Spaces of Comparison / Francoise Lionnet. 17. "Literature" in the Expanded Fiebd / Marjorie Perloff. 18. Telling Tales out of School: Comparative Literature and Disciplinary Recession / Mary Russo. 19. Sincerely Yours / Tobin Siebers.