Research Areas

Our faculty research a wide array of areas in comparative literature.

Topics

  • World literature
  • Cinema studies
  • Media theory, media studies
  • Sound studies
  • Film and visual culture
  • Translation and translation studies
  • Performance studies
  • Gender studies
  • Environmental criticism
  • Postcolonial studies
  • Global South

Genres/Styles

  • Creative writing
  • Drama
  • Lyric
  • Novel
  • Poetry and poetics

Linguistic/Cultural

  • Gothic Modernism
  • Early modern
  • African, North African and Middle Eastern studies
  • Anglophone literature
  • Caribbean studies
  • Chinese and Sinophone literature and studies
  • French studies
  • Jewish studies
  • Japanese popular culture
  • Ladino studies
  • Latin American studies
  • Luso-African-Brazilian studies
  • Portuguese studies
  • Russian literature
  • Spanish literature
  • Turkish drama