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Having merged with the English department in spring of 2007,
the Comparative Literature Program is committed to the comparative and
transnational study of literature and other medias. Combining its own
dynamic resources with the particular strengths of the English
department and other units in the College of Arts and Humanities, the
Program focuses especially on Western Hemispheric and Atlantic
Studies and on Diasporic and Postcolonial Studies. Students in the
Program work in at least two languages and national literatures, one of
them Anglophone.
The Comparative Literature PhD Program complements the current PhD
Program in English, giving students a place to pursue true comparative
studies. Students seeking admission to the PhD Program in Comparative
Literature must demonstrate advanced language proficiency before entry
into the Program, and commit themselves to achieving a high degree of
intellectual expertise in two or more languages and national
literatures. Graduates are as likely to find academic positions in
departments of foreign languages as they are to find them in English.
A doctoral degree in Comparative Literature can uniquely prepare them
for a profession that more and more studies literatures and cultures
within a globalized, transnational context.
While the focus of Comparative Literature is its PhD Program, we
also offer a number of undergraduate courses that satisfy CORE and
departmental requirements.
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News and Notes
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With great pleasure we announce that Professor Zita Nunes will be taking over as Director of Comparative Literature on July 1, 2008.
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Comparative Crossings for Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 will be a public
lecture and seminar series on Visual Culture.
The series will culminate with the English Department Petrou Lecture and
Seminar on April 8 and 9 with Joseph Roach, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley
Professor of English and Theater at Yale
University.
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