Comparative Literature - PhD

Our Comparative Literature program is committed to the broadest geographic and disciplinary scope, situating the study of literature and culture within a transnational intellectual framework. Reflecting the ongoing paradigm shift of the discipline from an almost exclusive focus on European perspectives to a more properly global awareness, our curriculum encompasses a worldwide range of languages and cultures. As a program, Comparative Literature draws on more than 70 affiliated faculty from across the Humanities and Social Sciences, providing our students with access to courses in a variety of departments and fields, as well as connections with like-minded colleagues across the campus and the UC system. Students have considerable freedom to devise their own itineraries. Working closely with our faculty, they are encouraged to construct diverse, ambitious programs of study that reach across linguistic, cultural and disciplinary boundaries. In support of this mission, the program is affiliated with a variety of centers, institutes, and research groups within UCSB and beyond, which play a vital role in enriching the intellectual and professional life of our Comparative Literature community.

• Education

• Publishing

• Law and diplomacy

• Universities, Colleges, Independent Schools

• Publishing companies

• Our program has 8 optional doctoral emphases in addition to the regular Ph.D. in Comp Lit: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Environmental Studies, Feminist Studies,Global Studies, Medieval Studies, Translation Studies, and Writing Studies

• Our doctoral field exams are uniquely designed for early professionalization

• In addition to courses and independent studies, our doctoral students have a variety of opportunities and resources, such as the Graduate Center for Literary Research and the Interdiciplinary Humanities Center

• English

• Feminist Studies

• Art & Architecture History

• Film & Media Studies

• East Asian Languages & Cultures

• Religious Studies

• Interdisciplinary

• Public Humanities

• Environmental Humanities

• Literary theory

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