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 Foreign Languages and Literatures, 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)
Paul Burke, Ph.D. (Classics)
Marcia Butzel, Ph.D. (Screen)
Marvin D’Lugo, 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)
Fern Johnson,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

• CMLT 109 - Human Rights and Literature
• CMLT 120 - The Epic Journey
• CMLT 129 - Shock of the New: Revolution in Hispanic Culture
• CMLT 130 - The National Imagination
• CMLT 132 - Sexuality and Textuality
• CMLT 134 - Latino Literature and Media Arts
• CMLT 136 - Existentialism in Philosophy, Literature and The Human Sciences
• CMLT 150 - Journeys with Hyphenated Americans: Emerging Identities, Evolving Cultures
• CMLT 155 - Studies in Italian Film: Neorealism
• CMLT 174 - Islands in the Stream: Puerto Rico and the French Antilles
• CMLT 181 - The Literature of Modern Spain in Translation
• CMLT 190 - Japanese Women Writers
• CMLT 194 - Indigenous Peoples in Mexico
• CMLT 205 - The Play and its Stages
• CMLT 206 - Languages of Theater
• CMLT 208 - Her Story: History and Fiction of Caribbean Women Writers
• CMLT 210 - Modernism in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts
• CMLT 248 - Studies in Latin-American Cinema
• CMLT 256 - No More Classrooms, No More Books: Education in 20th Century French Novel and Film
• CMLT 264 - Writing and Identity in the Francophone Caribbean
• CMLT 288 - Art of the City: Paris and New York
• CMLT 294 - A Culture of Dissent: Russian Radicalism in Historical Perspective
• ENG 150 - Introduction to Medieval Literature
• ENG 250 - Medieval Literature
• ENG 294 - History of the English Language
• FREN 140 - Francophone Literature and Film
• FREN 160 - French Culture Seen Through Film: Jean Renoir
• JS 117 - Reading the Narratives of the Hebrew Bible
• JS 118 - Introduction to the Hebrew Bible II: Prophecy and Poetry
• JS 123 - The Midrashic Tradition
• SCRN 121 - History of International Cinema Until 1960
• SCRN 288 - Gender and Film
• SPAN 134 - Latino Literature and Media Arts
• SPAN 246 - Studies in Spanish Cinema
• SPAN 249 - Studies in Hispanic Cinema