New York Univeristy College of Arts and Science
Faculty of Arts and Science Graduate School of Arts and Science
Department of Comparative LiteratureDepartment of Comparative LiteratureDepartment of Comparative LiteratureDepartment of Comparative LiteratureDepartment of Comparative Literature
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Director of Undergraduate Studies: 
Professor John Chioles

The undergraduate major is designed to foster serious work in literature at the advanced level, while giving students a strong background in critical and cultural analysis and a keen ability to pose questions and write with lucidity and force. The major provides an ideal intellectual site for students to draw connections across cultures, periods, genres, and disciplines in a rigorous yet individually designed way. A comparative literature major could lead to the advanced study of literature at the graduate level but could just as readily be a strong basis for advanced degrees and/or careers in journalism, publishing, international relations, international law, cultural studies, medicine, philosophy, education, public policy, film and entertainment, and the information industries of computer software and the World Wide Web.

Many comparative literature majors wish to study literature in its international contexts, having already mastered one or more foreign literatures. However, such mastery is not required in all courses or of all majors, and courses are open to a wide range of nonmajors with eclectic and interdisciplinary interests.

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