In response to current and ongoing anti-Black violence in the United States, the Department of Comparative Literature at Cornell is committed to a reflection on its educational and institutional frameworks, with the goal of developing anti-racist practices in the classroom and in the Department as a whole.

A group of 32 students from three colleges at Cornell will make up the first cohort of Humanities Scholars in a new program that will start in the fall, offered by the College of Arts & Sciences.

In her new book, “Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema,” professor of Romance studies and comparative literature 

Cornell's Department of Comparative Literature is proud to be ranked in the top ten of national Comparative Literature departments by StudentSuccess.org