• Comparative Literature is a flexible, cross-disciplinary undergraduate and graduate program, which provides the opportunity to tap into the best of UCSB’s resources in the humanities. It combines the study of national literatures with courses that address the relationship between literature and other disciplines such as anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, philosophy, linguistics, media, technology and science studies, psychoanalysis, religious studies, and the fine and performing arts.
• Faculty affiliated with the Comparative Literature Program come from the departments of Art; Black Studies; Classics; Dramatic Art; East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies; English; Film and Media Studies; French and Italian; Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies; Religious Studies; and Spanish and Portuguese. It includes Guggenheim Fellows, National Endowment for the Humanities Awardees, Ford Foundation Fellows, Humboldt Awardees, UC President’s Fellowship recipients, and UCSB Distinguished Teaching Award recipients.
• Comparative literature students study literary theory, periods of world literature, themes, movements and genres. They might investigate the development of the Faust tradition from the Middle Ages to the present. They might examine the development of notions of self and community as represented in a literary tradition. Or they might trace a theme such as the bohemian in film and literature.
• The program has a strong sense of community where undergraduates have the opportunity to work closely with faculty in their fields of study and where graduates students receive encouragement and guidance in their teaching, publishing and job searches.

For more information on UCSB’s Comparative Literature Program, contact:

Comparative Literature Program
Phelps Hall 6206
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4130
805-893-2131
Email: gd-complit@complit.ucsb.edu