Introduction
The
Department of Comparative Literature at Yale is proud of
a long tradition of excellence. We have long been a leading
graduate program for the study of literature across the
boundaries of national literatures and of other disciplines:
law, history, the visual arts, and film. The Literature
Major extends the department's interdisciplinary study to
Yale College students. The department encourages students
to develop their skills of textual analysis while it challenges
them to reflect theoretically on the acts of writing and
reading, on the connections between literature and other
realms of human experience. The guidelines of our programs
allow students great flexibility in shaping their course
of study and to pursue their individual intellectual interests.
The
Department of Comparative Literature
is located at 451 College Street
Comparative
Literature enjoys the cooperation of other stellar literature-teaching
departments at Yale, and, in addition to our strong faculty,
our students can work with professors in English,
French, Spanish,
Germanic Languages and
Literatures, Italian,
Slavic Languages and
Literatures, Classics,
East Asian Languages and Literature,
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations,
African
American Studies, Film
Studies, and with Renaissance
Studies. Yale's superb libraries offer inexhaustible resources
for research.
The
Department of Comparative Literature and
Yale as a larger whole provide a welcoming
environment and social community for graduate
study. Graduate students in the department
organize the annual Baldwin-Dahl lecture
which brings noted critics and thinkers
to campus. Students and faculty share
their work-in-progress in the ongoingOpen
Forum series. Our Ph.Ds have enjoyed excellent
success in finding academic positions.
In the last two years, we have placed
students at Amherst, Brown, the University
of Chicago, Colgate, Harvard, the University
of Pennsylvania, Penn State, Reed, and
two in post-docs at Swarthmore and the
University of Pennsylvania.
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