The Comparative Literature Major offers students broad and rigorous knowledge of literature from antiquity to the present in its historical and geographical contexts, and illuminates that knowledge with close analysis of the details of literary production. Knowledge and analysis are informed by related work in other disciplines, by attention to linguistic and cultural diversity, and by recent movements in literary and critical theory. Solid knowledge, critical praxis, and strong linguistic skills form the foundations of professional skills and creative production. Students are encouraged to build skills and knowledge in two or three literature-language areas, and to develop and articulate a personal focus for their reading, which issues in a portfolio of work and a senior thesis in the final year.

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