Welcome
Welcome to the Department of Comparative Literature at Penn State. As a literature and language department, we offer graduate degrees (M.A., Ph.D.) in Comparative Literature, undergraduate majors in Comparative Literature and Japanese, minors in Chinese and (in conjunction with the Jewish Studies Program) Hebrew, and language instruction in Arabic, Korean, and Swahili. Our graduate programs draw on departmental strengths in medieval and early modern studies, inter-American studies, modernism, East Asian studies, African studies, and faculty interests in comparative work on globalization, diaspora, and film and other new media.
The boundaries of our research and teaching interests are defined by the intellectual possibilities of our ideas: comparative literature is above all about understanding how literary and social forms are shaped by the plural languages and cultural contexts through which they come into being.
Caroline D. Eckhardt, Department Head
427 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
phone: 814.863.0589 | fax: 814.863.8882 | email: cmlit@psu.edu
phone: 814.863.0589 | fax: 814.863.8882 | email: cmlit@psu.edu
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