The study of comparative literature, like the study of all liberal arts, is designed to prepare students for a broad range of careers as well as continued study in graduate school and professional programs. Comparative literature majors develop skills and abilities that can be applied in a number of areas. For example, comparative literature majors:

• develop effective oral and written communication skills;
• gain insight into cultures other than their own through the study of language and literature;
• learn to analyze multiple forms of writing: literary, historical, theoretical, and philosophical;
• acquire an awareness of individual and group behavior, and an understanding of social relations;
• develop planning, organizational, and analytic skills.

A degree in comparative literature provides preparation for possible careers as teachers and scholars in literary and cultural studies, as well as for careers that require familiarity with multi-cultural perspectives, such as journalism, business, law and diplomacy. Students interested in teaching and research at the university level should plan to complete a doctoral degree. Students interested in teaching at the community college level should pursue graduate work at least through the master’s degree.

Teaching at the high school level requires the California single subject teaching credential. Students considering a high school teaching career should discuss their plans with the credential advisor in UCSB’s Graduate School of Education early in their academic career.

Karen Bishop successfully defended her dissertation in July 2008. As of Fall 2008, she is a Lecturer in the History and Literature Program at Harvard University.

Marco Codebo was awarded his PhD in Winter 2005 and is an Assistant Professor at Long Island University. He published a collection of short stories in Italy.

Amber Godey successfully defended her dissertation, “Words and Mirrors: Resistance and Participation through Personal Narrative in Fascist Italy,” and was awarded her PhD in Winter 2008.

Nathan Henne was awarded his PhD in June 2007 and is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages & Cultures at Loyola University, New Orleans.

Aimee Kilbaine is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College.

Viola Kolarov was awarded her PhD in Spring 2006 and is now a Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow 2006-2008 at Johns Hopkins University.

Paulo Moreira was awarded his PhD in September 2007 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale.

Randall Pogorzelski was awarded his PhD in Fall 2007 and has a Lecturer position in the Department of Classics at UC Irvine.

Mary Seliger was awarded her PhD in Spring 2008.  She was a summer Lecturer for the Comparative Literature Program in 2008, and will lecture in the Department of Asian American Studies in Winter 2009.

Elizabeth Swanstrom was awarded her PhD in Spring 2008 and is currently Florence Kay Fellow in the Digital Humanities at Brandeis University.

Stacey Van Dahm was awarded her PhD in Summer 2007. She is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Writing at Philadelphia University.

Marta Wilkinson was awarded her PhD in Spring 2006 and is now working as Assistant Professor of English at Wilmington College.

Chair: Elisabeth Weber
Vice-Chair and Graduate Advisor: Sara Lindheim

ADVISORY BOARD

Michael Berry
berry@eastasian.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, East Asian Studies
Modern and contemporary Chinese literature, Chinese cinema, popular culture in modern China, fiction and drama of late imperial China, and translation studies

Julie Carlson
jcarlson@english.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, English
British Romanticism, Feminist and Queer theories, early nineteenth-century British theatre, Black Romanticism

Susan Derwin
derwin@gss.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Holocaust studies, nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and European novel, film studies, autobiography, psychoanalysis, critical theory

Ronald Egan
ronegan@eastasian.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, East Asian Studies
Chinese literature, aesthetics

Bishnupriya Ghosh
bghosh@english.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, English
Global studies, postcolonial theory and media studies, gender/sexuality studies

Wolf Kittler
kittler@gss.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Eighteenth- nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, art history, media technology, science and philosophy

Sara Lindheim
lindheim@classics.ucsb.edu (CV)
Vice Chair and Graduate Advisor
Associate Professor, Classics
Latin poetry, critical and feminist theory

Eric Prieto
prieto@french-ital.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, French and Italian
Twentieth-century literature and theory, Francophone literature and culture, music, narrative poetics, aesthetics

Dwight Reynolds
dreynold@religion.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Religious Studies
Arabic languages and literatures, folklore and folk life

Harvey Sharrer
sharrer@spanport.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Medieval Spanish and Portuguese literatures, comparative medieval literature, Catalan

Jon Snyder
snyder@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, French and Italian
Italian literature and comparative European literature, early-modern and modern periods

Sven Spieker
spieker@gss.ucsb.edu
Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
East-Central European literatures, contemporary art (especially in the East-Central-European context), the theory and practice of the historical avant-gardes in East-Central Europe and the US, and the interplay of media, art, and critical theory.

Elisabeth Weber
weber@gss.ucsb.edu (CV)
Chair
Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
French philosophy and theory, German Judaism of the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature

Simon Williams
williams@theaterdance.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor & Chair, Theater and Dance
European theater history, dramatic literature

AFFILIATED FACULTY–Please note that this list is updated as new faculty are affiliated and is more current than the General Catalog listing.  Last update: 8/12/09

Geraldo Aldana
gvaldana@chicst.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies
Maya hieroglyphic history, Mesoamerican art, experimental archaeology, science studies, culture theory

Silvia Bermúdez
bermudez@spanport.ucsb.edu
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Twentieth-century peninsular and Latin American poetry and poetics, literary and cultural theory, Galician poetry, popular culture

Maurizia Boscagli
boscagli@english.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, English
Gender studies and Feminist theory, the body, theories of subjectivity, British and European modernism, fin de siecle literature, critical and cultural theory, theories of mass culture

Edward Branigan
branigan@filmstudies.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Film and Media Studies
Film theory, aesthetics, narrative, point-of-view, Japanese cinema

Leo Cabranes-Grant
cabranes@theatherdance.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Theater & Dance
Spanish and Latin-American drama and theatre history, “minority” theatre

João Camilo dos Santos
jcamilo@spanport.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Portuguese and Brazilian literature, comparative literature, nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, “neo-realismo”, literary theory, analysis and criticism of narrative, poetry, and drama

Thomas Carlson
tcarlson@religion.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Christianity and culture, religion, and philosophy

Jorge Checa
checa@spanport.ucsb.edu
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Literature and the culture of the Spanish Golden Age, Colonial and Medieval studies.

Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook
ecook@english.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, English
Eighteenth-century British and French literature and cultural studies

Enda Duffy
duffy@english.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, English
Post-colonial literatures and cultures, modernism and postmodernism, Irish literature, cultural studies, James Joyce

Francis Dunn
fdunn@classics.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Classics
Greek drama, Greek poetry and Latin poetry, time, narrative and closure

Jody Enders
jenders@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, French and Italian
Medieval literature, history of rhetoric, performance theory, interrelations of law and literature

Claudio Fogu
cfogu@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Assistant Professor, French and Italian
Relationship between Italian modernism and mass culture; rascist forms of imaginary and their relations to representations of fascism; relationships between 20th-century continental philosophy and visual culture

L.O. Aranye Fradenburg
lfraden@english.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, English
Medieval English and Scottish literature, critical theory, gender and sexualities, psychoanalysis

Colin Gardner
colinrgardner@cox.net (CV)
Professor, Department of Art
Critical theory, film studies, the culture of the Cold War, visual literacy, Deleuze and minor literatures

Giles Gunn
ggunn@english.ucsb.edu
Professor, English
American literature, literary theory and criticism, American cultural and religious studies, literature and religion

Carl Gutiérrez-Jones
carlgj@english.ucsb.edu
Professor, English
Chicano studies, contemporary fiction, Pan-American studies, critical legal studies

Richard Hecht
ariel@religion.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Religious Studies
History of religions, Judaic studies

Ellie Hernandez
ehernandez@femst.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, Feminist Studies
20th Century American literature and Cultural Studies, Chicana/o and Latina/o literature and cultural production, Gay/Lesbian studies and Queer Theory, Comparative Sexualities: U.S. Pan-Latina/o formations

Jocelyn Holland
holland@gss.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Goethe, German romanticism, rhetoric, philosophy of nature

Yunte Huang
yhuang@english.ucsb.edu
Professor, English
Asian-American literature, American modernism, twentieth-century American poetry

Dominique Jullien
djullien@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, French and Italian
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture, Proust studies, Borges studies, intertextuality and rewriting, travel narratives, representation of the artist in prose fiction

Stephanie Lemenager
slemen@english.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, English
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century U.S. literature and cultures, literatures of the North American West, environmental theories and representations, and rhetorics of slavery and freedom

Suzanne Jill Levine
sjlevine@spanport.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Latin American literature, comparative literary studies, translation studies, literary theory

Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
slim@english.ucsb.edu
Professor, English
Asian American cultural productions, post-colonial literature, ethnic and feminist writing, creative writing

Francisco Lomeli
lomeli@chicst.ucsb.edu
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Latin American literature, particularly Chilean, Andean, Mexican, and Argentine; Central American Literature; testimonial literature; translation; Chicano literature, particularly Southwest literary history, Pre-Chicano literature; literary theory; cultural studies; autobiography; bibliography.

Juan Pablo Lupi
jplupi@spanport.ucsb.edu
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Twentieth-century Spanish-American literature, with emphasis on the Hispanic Caribbean; poetry and poetics; literary and critical theory; modern French literature; comparative literature; literature and science.

Didier Maleuvre
maleuvre@french-ital.ucsb.edu
Professor, French and Italian
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, aesthetic theory, philosophy, art history

Harold Marcuse
marcuse@history.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, History
Modern German history

David Marshall
dmarshall@ltsc.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, English
Eighteenth-century literature and aesthetics

Anne Maurseth
amaurseth@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Assistant Professor, French and Italian
Eighteeenth-century French and comparative literature, Enlightenment studies, literary theory, aesthetics, epistemology and science

Ellen McCracken
emccr@spanport.ucsb.edu
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Latin American and U.S. Latino literature, literary theory

Catherine Nesci
cnesci@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, French and Italian
Modern French literature and intellectual history, literary theory, feminist and gender studies, French and Francophone women writers and film directors

Erin Khue Ninh
ninh@asamst.ucsb.edu
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies
Asian American literature and literary studies, feminist studies and women’s literature, ethnic literature, cultural studies

Élide Oliver
elideoliver@spanport.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Brazilian literature and culture, literary theory, theory and practice of translation, history of ideas, history of art and music, philosophy, aesthetics, art, music, musicology

Sara Poot-Herrera
spooth@spanport.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Mexican and Spanish-American literature

William Powell
bpowell@eastasian.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, Religious Studies and East Asian Cultural Studies
History of Chinese religion, Buddhist studies, sacred geography and the production of space

Rita Raley
raley@english.ucsb.edu (homepage)
Associate Professor, English
New media art, literature, and theory; 20-21C literature in an “international” or “global” context

Laurence Rickels
rickels@gss.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Technology and melancholia, group and adolescent psychology, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in the Third Reich, genealogy of media, vampirism

Katherine Saltzman-Li
ksaltzli@eastasian.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, East Asian Studies
Japanese literature and drama

Bhaskar Sarkar
sarkar@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies
Post-colonial media theory, political economy of global media, and history and memory. Bhaskar Sarkar’s  work addresses questions of modernity and nationhood, paying close attention to the institutions, circuits, and practices constituting global media assemblages.

Celine Shimizu
shimizu@asamst.ucsb.edu (home page)
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
Film and Performance Theory and Production, Social Theories of Power and Inequality, Race and Sexuality Studies, Transnational Feminisms, Asian American Cultural Studies

Cynthia Skenazi
cskenazi@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, French and Italian
Renaissance literature and culture, Belgian literature in French

Roberto Strongman
rstrongman@blackstudies.ucsb.edu
Assistant Professor, Black Studies
Comparative Caribbean Cultural Studies

Candace Waid
waid@english.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, English
American literature and culture, gender studies, African-American literature, Southern literature, and regional literature

Janet Walker
jwalker@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
Professor, Film and Media Studies
Film History and Historiography, Documentary Film, Film and Ethnography, the Western, and Trauma and Memory

William Warner
warner@english.ucsb.edu
Professor, English
Eighteenth-century literature, the novel, media history and theory, technology and literature

Kay Young
kayyoung@english.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, English
Victorian studies, the novel, Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s, narrative theory, the relationship of narrative to architecture, philosophy, music, and dance

RETIRED FACULTY

Sydney Lévy
slevy@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, French and Italian
Contemporary poetry, literary theory, fantastic literature, science and literature

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Comparative Literature Program
6206 Phelps Hall
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4130

Telephone: (805) 893-2131

Fax: (805) 893-2374

Email: gd-complit@complit.ucsb.edu

Undergraduate Advisor
Ashley Bradbury
ashley@gss.ucsb.edu

Graduate Advisor
gd-complit@complit.ucsb.edu

Consortium for Literature, Theory and Culture
The Consortium for Literature, Theory and Culture brings together faculty and graduate student from the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, as well as affiliates from other disciplines, to advance collaborative research in literary studies, broadly defined. While grounded in the study of national literary traditions, it seeks to encourage interdisciplinary and theoretical reflections on literature and culture in global and comparative contexts.

Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
One of the nation’s most active and innovative centers for conferences, lectures, panels and other intellectual events that cross the disciplines and draw a wide spectrum of international scholars. In the recent past, the Center has mounted major conferences and lecture series on a diverse group of topics including “Turn-of-the-Century China: Identity & Cultural Production in a Global Context,” “Borders and Bridges: Exploring the Relationships Between Humans and Animals,” “Women Transforming the Public,” “Trauma, Absence, Loss,” “Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations,” “Science and Pornography,” “The Tears of Philosophy: Jacques Derrida and Death,” and “The Philosophy of John Locke: Reason, Empiricism and Common Sense.”

The IHC also sponsors research projects proposed by individual UCSB faculty members and graduate students and sponsors interdisciplinary team-taught seminars such as “The Invention of the Author” and “The Construction of Gender in the Jewish and Christian Traditions.”

The Center has hosted a variety of national conferences for associations like the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the American Society for Aesthetics. In the fall of 1995 it hosted the Western Humanities Conference.

Women’s Studies Program
An interdisciplinary program in which the varied experiences of women and the systematic study of gender are explored. The program offers courses and teaching opportunities to Comparative Literature graduate students.

Women’s Center
A Center devoted to understanding the evolving roles of women and men and to expanding educational, professional and personal opportunities for women. The Women’s Center Gallery exhibits the work of women artists, and the Women’s Center library houses a special collection of books and periodicals pertaining to women. The Center also maintains up-to-date files on hundreds of gender-related topics. In cooperation with other departments and student groups, the Women’s Center brings dozens of eminent women — writers, artists and public figures — to campus each year. In addition, the Faculty Lectures Series features feminist scholars whose research and teaching are expanding the traditional curriculum and unfolding new ways of thinking. Recent guests have included Paula Vogel, Sandra Cisneros, Jewelle Gomez, Anita Roddick, Dr. Bidyut Mohanty (from India), Luisa Valenzuela and Nicole Hollander.

Center for Black Studies
A Center conducting research on the historical, social, economic and political forces that have affected people of African descent throughout the world. The Center sponsors a faculty development program that awards doctoral fellowships to Ph.D. candidates. It also organizes and presents seminars, lectures and symposia and serves as a liaison between the campus and the Santa Barbara community.

Center for Chicano Studies
Created to develop, conduct and support interdisciplinary research on the history and contemporary conditions of the Mexican-origin population in the United States. The Center also organizes, promotes and sponsors a variety of special public-service events that are conducive to a better understanding and appreciation of Chicano/Mexicano society and culture and that work to advance Chicano scholarship.

Dramatic Art
A department whose distinctive feature is its wide range of offerings in dramatic literature, theory and theater history. The Ph.D. program concentrates on literary, critical and historical research and welcomes graduate students from other humanities departments.

Medieval and Renaissance Studies Programs
Programs designed to bring together faculty members and students from various disciplines that are concerned with the Middle ages and Renaissance. Both programs provide an opportunity for the kind of boundary crossing that is an important part of much current work in the humanities. The programs sponsor lectures, faculty and student colloquia and occasional interdisciplinary courses that enhance graduate study.

Davidson Library
UCSB’s major research facility. As a member of the Association of Research Libraries, it participates in cooperative programs and policy development with other major research libraries to provide collections and services for the UCSB community. The library has over two million books and bound journals and is linked by computer to the University of California’s entire collection, which includes over twenty-three million volumes. The UCSB collection grows by about fifty-thousand volumes annually. CD-ROM is available for free researching of MLA bibliographies, Dissertation Abstracts International and other sources. Researchers may request on-line searches in such data bases as MLA’s complete on-line files and The Arts and Humanities Citation Index. The Interlibrary Loan Service offers computerized access to research materials and is linked to libraries around the world. Faculty and students may also utilize MELVYL, an on-line catalogue for holdings of the entire UC System, and the library’s Research Consultation Service, which provides individual consultation for complicated research problems.

Library: Department of Special Collections:
The Department of Special Collections collects, maintains and makes accessible rare, valuable and unique materials which support UCSB students, faculty and research programs, as well as the local national and international scholarly community. Special Collections acquires materials by gift, transfer and purchase, in accordance with general library procedures. The department’s holdings are non-circulating but are available for research in the reading room during posted hours. http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/

Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
Ranging from traditional areas that have been at the heart of a liberal arts education for thousands of years (such as Classics, History, and Philosophy) to programs that are redefining the university in the 21st Century (such as Media Arts and Technology and Film Studies) the arts and humanities at UCSB represent both the past and the future. The Division of Humanities and Fine Arts includes a broad spectrum of languages and literatures, as well as the performing and visual arts. Our departments and interdisciplinary programs focus on the intellectual, historical, and artistic traditions of cultures throughout the world and the modes of expressions and representation that have given them voice and form. Building on this foundation, the arts and humanities are responding to the cultural changes that must be engaged in the university and in a global society of the 21st century.

For information on Arts and Lectures Program, Computer Resources, Counseling and Career Services, Special Services Program, Veteran’s Support Services, University Art Museum, University Children’s Center and other university resources, visit UCSB’s campus home page at www.ucsb.edu.

ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association)
http://ada.org

CLTC (The Consortium for Literature, Theory and Culture)
http://www.cltc.ucsb.edu/

Graduate Student Handbook
http://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/academic/handbook/
http://www.complit.ucsb.edu/gradhandbook.pdf

IHC (Interdisciplinary Humanities Center)
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/

Information for New Graduate Students
http://www.complit.ucsb.edu/infonewstudents.pdf

MLA (Modern Language Association)
http://www.mla.org/

TA Handbook for Comparative Literature Grads
http://www.complit.ucsb.edu/TAHandbook.pdf

UCSB’s Department of Chicano Studies
http://www.chicst.ucsb.edu/

UCSB’s Department of Classics
http://www.classics.ucsb.edu/

UCSB’s Department of Dramatic Art
http://www.dramadance.ucsb.edu/dramadepartment.html

UCSB’s Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/

UCSB’s Department of English
http://www.english.ucsb.edu/

UCSB’s Department of French and Italian
http://www.french-ital.ucsb.edu/

UCSB’s Department of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
http://www.gss.ucsb.edu/

UCSB’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese
http://www.spanport.ucsb.edu/

UCSB’s Department of Women’s Studies
http://www.womst.ucsb.edu/

UCSB’s Alumni Association
http://www.ucsbalum.com

UCSB’s Graduate Division
http://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/

UCSB’s Special Collections in the Library
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/

UCSB’s Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
http://www.hfa.ltsc.ucsb.edu/ALUMNIANDFRIENDS/waystogivetohfa.html

UCSB Home
http://www.ucsb.edu/

The Comparative Literature Program is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty and graduate students and thus seeks to recruit students with varied backgrounds and interests. Financial support is provided to a diverse group based on academic achievements and potential for success at the graduate level in spite of economic and social disadvantages. Awards in this category include the multi-year Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship and the Doctoral Scholars Fellowship, which, in 2008-09 provide four- to five-year support packages that combine stipends of $21,000 for two years with two to three years of teaching assistantships and payment of fees, tuition and health insurance. The Graduate Opportunity Fellowship provides a one-year stipend and payment of fees and health insurance for all awardees.

The Comparative Literature Program makes every effort to support qualified graduate students. The total package offered to excellent students is financially competitive with other major institutions and intellectually supportive because of the valuable teaching experience it affords.

Fellowships
Fellowship support in a variety of forms is available for particularly strong candidates. Qualified incoming students in the humanities will be considered for the University’s Regents Special Fellowship and Humanities Special Fellowship, each of which in 2008-09 provides a $21,000 stipend, and payment of fees, health insurance and nonresident tuition in the first and fifth years. In addition, fellowship recipients receive teaching assistantships during their second, third and fourth years, and payment of fees, health insurance and nonresident tuition. Qualified incoming students will also be considered for the Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, which in 2008-09 provides a $21,000 stipend, payment of fees and health insurance for the first two years, and nonresident tuition for the first year. In addition, fellowship recipients receive teaching assistantships during their third, fourth, and fifth years, and payment of fees, health insurance. Truly exceptional students will be considered for the Chancellor’s Fellowship, which in 2008-09 awards $21,000 plus payment of fees, health insurance and tuition for three years, and awardees receive teaching assistantships for two to three years. Highly qualified incoming students will also be considered for one-year small-department Regents Fellowships and the Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, which award a $18,000 stipend, fees and health insurance in 2007-08.

Research in the humanities is encouraged and supported in many other ways as well. Advanced graduate students may apply to the Graduate Student Humanities/Social Sciences Research Grant Program, which awards grants of up to $2,000. Doctoral students doing interdisciplinary research may apply for Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Predoctoral Fellowships, which award up to $4,500, with payment of basic resident fees for one quarter. Tuition fellowships may also be granted to out-of-state students with distinguished records. Graduate students may also apply for graduate student travel funds and intercampus exchange funds that enable them to use library and research facilities at other UC campuses, Stanford University, the University of Southern California and the Huntington Library. For updates on fellowship opportunities please contact the Graduate Division at http://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/financial/.  Mellon Fellowships provide first-year students with a stipend of $17,500 and tuition. For more information about this fellowship opportunity, please see
The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies

Teaching Assistantships
Most financial support for graduate students in Comparative Literature comes from teaching assistantships. Students are responsible (with supervision) for teaching a variety of literature, language or other courses both within the program and in other related departments. Teaching assistantships currently provide a salary of $16,637 at 50% time for nine months, plus health insurance and partial fee remission for the academic year.

APPLICATION
Completed applications and all application materials must be received by December 15 for admission to the Fall quarter and for consideration of financial support in the form of fellowships and teaching assistantships.

ADMISSION
In addition to fulfilling all university requirements for admission to graduate status, described in the chapter in the general catalog Graduate Education at UCSB, applicants to the M.A./Ph.D. program will normally have completed an undergraduate major in comparative literature or a related field. For admission to the Ph.D. program, applicants must have completed an M.A. in comparative literature or a closely related field.

Application packets for both programs should consist of the following:
(1) two official sets of transcripts from all postsecondary institutions
(2) three letters of recommendation.  Please note your recommenders can now submit their letters electronically.  You will be prompted to enter information about your recommenders when you fill out the online application.  If you have a recommender who is only able to submit a hard copy letter, you must make sure to supply that recommender with the mandatory letter of recommendation coversheet.
(3) official scores on the GRE general test (sent electronically by ETS) and, if the applicant is not from an English-speaking country, official TOEFL scores (sent electronically by ETS)
(4) a writing sample of no more than 25 pages in length. Writing samples should be substantial papers written in an upper-division or graduate literature course.
(5) two copies of the statement of purpose, personal achievements/contributions, and resume/CV (with completed coversheets)
(6) demonstration of competence in a foreign language. Foreign language proficiency can be demonstrated by (a) submission of a writing sample in a foreign language, or (b) evidence that the applicant is a native speaker of a foreign language.
(7) supplemental foreign language form

The program’s admission policy is based on intellectual potential and promise, academic records, and programmatic fit.

Applications can be completed at https://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/eapp/

Electronic Application Preparation Guide

Additional Information for Applicants

For further information, please contact:

Comparative Literature Program
Phelps Hall 6206
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4130

Phone: 805-893-2131
Fax: 805-893-2374
E-mail: gd-complit@complit.ucsb.edu