Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media

The Department of Comparative Literature explores connections— connections among various literary, visual, and cultural traditions in a global world; connections between past and present; and connections across different academic disciplines and modes of intellectual inquiry. International in scope and interdisciplinary in orientation, the Department emphasizes intellectual breadth and fosters intellectual initiative by maximizing students’ opportunities to design and focus on their own courses of study.

Degrees offered: Bachelor of Arts, Literature or Cinema Studies; Master of Arts, Comparative Literature, Theory and Criticism, Textual Studies, or Cinema and Media Studies; PhD, Comparative Literature.