Research Areas

Comparative and World Literature

Comparative and World Literature explores an increasingly inclusive and diverse “planetary” array of “world literatures” in the most linguistically and culturally specific senses of the term.

Comparative Media Studies

Responding to the recent trend of media studies and the digital humanities, comparative media studies has emerged as one of the core fields of Comparative Literature.

Critical Studies of Race, Gender, and Sexuality

More than a set of objects, critical race, gender and sexuality studies are primarily modes of analysis that consider how racial, sexual, and gender differences affect and shape our epistemological, political, and social endeavors.

Literary Theory and Translation Studies

The cluster of concerns that fall under literary theory remains a vital core interest of Comparative Literature as faculty research has expanded to include new critical and post-critical perspectives.

Literature, Science, and the Environment

Faculty in Comparative Literature engage with a number of key issues connecting theory, science, technology, narrative and writing.

Politics and Aesthetics

Aesthetics and political theory, especially as philosophical discourses, have been exceptionally active fields of study in Comparative Literature.

Psychoanalysis and Trauma Studies

Comparative Literature has long been the home of the most exciting developments in psychoanalytic theory as it interprets, and can be reinterpreted through, literature, film, the broader arts, culture and society.

Transregional and Postcolonial Studies

Some of the most prominent debates in Comparative Literature over the last decade or so turn renewed attention to two of the discipline's most traditional topics: World Literature and Translation.

Collaborative Research and Publications

Alongside work by senior scholars in the field, this open-access special issue of the Latin American Literary Review by Anindita Banerjee features contributions by Comparative Literature graduate students Amrita Chakraborty and Hannah Cole.

Read or download the full Border Environments, Volume 49, Issue 96 here.

Research Areas

Comparative and World Literature

Comparative Media Studies

Critical Studies of Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Literary Theory and Translation Studies

Literature, Science, and the Environment

Politics and Aesthetics

Psychoanalysis and Trauma Studies

Transregional and Postcolonial Studies

Faculty Research Highlights

Naminata Diabate wins ASA book prize for ‘Naked Agency’

Transdisciplinary film explores Trinidad and Tobago

Professor named chair of state humanities organization

$2M in New Frontier Grants boost high-impact A&S research

Collaborative Research and Publications