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Department: Comparative Literature

Executive Officer: Professor Giancarlo Lombardi

The Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016

Email: Complit@gc.cuny.edu

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/comparative-literature

FACULTY

André Aciman, Ali Ahmed, Anna Ayse Akasoy, Ammiel Alcalay, Esther Allen, Patrica Brooks, Monica Calabritto, Jerry Carlson, Marvin Carlson, Clare Carroll, Morena Corradi, Vincent Crapanzano, Paolo Fasoli, Hermann Haller, Peter Hitchcock, Nico Israel, Amr Kamal, Yasha Klots, Bettina Lerner, Giancarlo Lombardi, Eric Lott, Nancy K. Miller, Gerry Milligan, Paul Oppenheimer, Eugenia Paulicelli, Sonali Perera, Nadya Peterson, David Reynolds, Lisa Rhody, Joan Richardson, Caroline Rupprecht, Charity Scribner, Paul Smith, Domna Stanton, Paola Ureni, Richard Wolin

THE PROGRAM

The Comparative Literature Program offers coordinated courses in literature, theory, criticism, aesthetics, and translation, including literatures in English-American, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Slavic languages, Classical Greek, and Latin. Students take courses in the national and classical literature programs as well as in Comparative Literature. They may register for certificates in Film Studies, Medieval Studies, Global Early Modern Studies, and Women’s Studies. Texts and contexts range from ancient times to the present. Because more than 30 professors are on the Comparative Literature doctoral faculty, seminars and tutorials taught within the program cover a rich variety of subjects and methodologies ranging from the visual arts, music, and theatre, to history, political science, anthropology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, philology, and other disciplines. Ph.D. degrees in Comparative Literature are offered with specializations in Italian, Classical Greek, and Latin. With their advisor’s consent, students are allowed to take courses through the Interuniversity Doctoral Consortium at Columbia University, Princeton University, New York University, The New School, Stony Brook University, Rutgers University, Teachers College, and Fordham University. The program also offers a master’s degree in Comparative Literature.

Degrees in Comparative Literature with special concentrations in Classics and German are offered. The specialization in Italian is offered in consortium with the Italian Department of New York University. The degree with a special concentration in Classics is offered in cooperation with the Graduate Program in Classics at the Graduate Center and with the departments of classics at New York University and Fordham University. The Graduate Program in Germanic Languages and Literatures is housed in the Comparative Literature Program.

Resources for Training and Research

Several literature journals are housed or partially housed at the Graduate Center, and training in editorial work is available. Students in the program frequently have an opportunity to teach undergraduate courses in the various colleges of the City University and are given preference for such positions according to the regulations of the University.

En-route M.A.

Upon completing 45 credits with an average grade of B, passing the First Examination, and satisfactorily completing a major research paper, a doctoral student may apply for an en-route M.A. degree. Those seeking an en-route master’s degree should have the Executive Officer initiate the appropriate action.