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Degrees & Majors

Comparative Literature

Doctor of Philosophy

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The Ph.D. in Comparative Literature offers extensive and rigorous training in the comparative study of literature.

Coursework emphasizes numerous important facets of literary study: literary theory; the literary, cultural, historical, political, and religious analysis of texts; literary flow across polities, eras, genres, and languages; and relations between literature and the other arts.