Comparative Literature Minor

Comparative Literature Overview

Comparative Literature is a wide-ranging, multicultural program of studies in poetry, prose, drama, film and related arts. House in the Department of Language, Literature and Culture, Comparative Literature is by nature interdisciplinary and has strong ties to several other departments in the University.

For more information, please visit the Comparative Literature Department website.

Minor Requirements

The MINOR in Comparative literature should consist of:

1. Two courses in a foreign language at the intermediate level or above.
2. Six courses in literature, film or related arts, selected in consultation with a department advisor, one of which must be CMLT 130 - The National Imagination. These six courses can be selected from the offerings in several departments and programs including Foreign Languages, English, Art History, Screen Studies, and Theater Arts. Literature courses presented to demonstrate reading knowledge of a foreign language may be counted in this group of eight courses. No more than one foreign language course above the intermediate level taken to fulfill requirement 1 may be double-counted for fulfillment of requirement 2. 

Comparative Literature Faculty

Maria Acosta Cruz, Ph.D. (Spanish)
Belén Atienza, Ph.D (Spanish)
Odile Ferly, Ph.D. (French)
Everett Fox, Ph.D. (Jewish Studies)
Beth Gale, Ph.D. (French)
SunHee Kim Gertz, Ph.D. (English)
Benjamin Korstvedt, Ph.D. (Music)
Stephen Levin, Ph.D. (English)
Juan Pablo Rivera, Ph.D. (Spanish)
Robert Tobin, Ph.D. (German)
Alice Valentine, M.A. (Japanese)

Comparative Literature Courses

Courses offered within the last 2 Academic Years

• CMLT 109 - Human Rights and Literature
• CMLT 129 - Shock of the New: Revolution in Hispanic Culture
• CMLT 130 - The National Imagination
• CMLT 132 - Sexuality and Textuality
• CMLT 208 - Caribbean Women’s Fiction
• ENG 150 - Introduction to Medieval Literature
• ENG 250 - Medieval Literature
• FREN 140 - Francophone Writing and Film
• GERM 220 - Global Freud
• GERM 230 - The German Discovery of Sex
• GERM 250 - German Film and the Frankfurt School
• GERM 286 - Germans, Jews and Turks
• JAPN 280 - Memory and National Identity in Post-War Japanese Fiction and Film
• JS 117 - Reading the Narratives of the Hebrew Bible
• SCRN 121 - History of International Cinema Until 1960
• SCRN 288 - Gender and Film
• SPAN 246 - Studies in Spanish Cinema