The
Study and Research Centre on World Literature and Oralities (CERLOM, EA 4124) promotes research on the written and oral cultures of the world at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences. Favouring an interdisciplinary approach, it intends to develop new paradigms and new methods from a historical, aesthetic and comparative perspective. The work of its researchers covers some twenty geocultural areas in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas.