Comparative Literature
What is Comparative Literature?
Comparative Literature fosters the study of literary relations across national, linguistic, and cultural boundaries, and examines literature in its interaction with other cultural forms. The comparative approach promotes an investigation of the nature and role of literature by exploring its multifaceted production, by focusing on connections, exchanges, analogies and differences between works, authors, periods or genres, and by engaging literature in a dialogue with other discourses and disciplines.
Comparative Literature at Georgetown
In the international, multicultural and multilingual environment of Georgetown University, students majoring in Comparative Literature have plenty of opportunities to build a four-year program tailored to their individual academic interests, and designed to provide vast exposure to literary studies in a comparative perspective.
Program description and requirements
- Undergraduate Bulletin 2007-2008
Comparative Literature course offerings
Faculty
Comparative Literature Interim Program Director:
Faculty Steering Committee:
- Prof. Emily Francomano
- Prof. Susanna Lee
- Prof. Adam Lifshey
- Prof. Ricardo Ortiz
- Prof. Samantha Pinto
- Prof. Nicoletta Pireddu
- Prof. Andrew Sobanet
- Prof. Jingyuan Zhang
Senior Thesis
Events
Comparative Literature Resources
Selected Electronic and Paper Journals
- CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. A WWWeb Journal
- Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature
- Comparative Literature
- Comparative Literature Studies
- The Comparatist
Selected Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Websites
- Éclat: The "Essential" Comparative Literature and Theory Site
- Voice of the Shuttle
- Feminist Theory Website
- Rhetorical and Cultural Studies: Critical Theory (University of Iowa,
Dept of Communication Studies) - Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch)
