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Comparative Literature
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Recent News
Comparative Literature PhD Info Session
Join us for a virtual information session to learn more about our PhD program and the application process.
Welcoming Our 2025 PhD Students!
Welcome, Andryusha and Remi, our newest cohort, to the 2025 Comp Lit PhD Program!
Welcome to the Department of Comparative Literature!
We are one of the oldest and best established centers for the study of comparative literature in the United States. Founded in 1937, our program is a magnet for innovative research and undergraduate and graduate courses that encourage interdisciplinary and multilingual perspectives on literature and culture.
Our faculty and graduate students work in more than 35 languages. We offer undergraduate and graduate training in translation studies. Comp Lit faculty are leaders in the American Comparative Literature Association and Modern Language Association. Our graduate students, whose dissertations have received the ACLA's Charles Bernheimer Prize and ProQuestDistinguished Dissertation Award, edit Absinthe: World Literature in Translation and have been organizing the annual conference CLIFF for nearly 30 years.
In 2022 Comp Lit awarded its 100th doctorate since the start of the millennium. Check out our timeline, 85 Years of Comp Lit at Michigan.
Welcome to the Department of Comparative Literature
We are a department of interdisciplinary and multilingual perspectives on literature, culture, arts, and global humanities.
Events
Oct
10
Comparative Literature PhD Info Session
Yopie Prins, Director of Graduate Studies; Julie Burnett, Comp Lit Student Services Coordinator
9:00 AM
Virtual
Oct
16
Professors Erik Mueggler, Anne Pitcher, and Silke Weineck, Collegiate Professorship Inaugural Lecture
LSA Collegiate Lecture Series
4:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
Events
Oct
10
Comparative Literature PhD Info Session
Yopie Prins, Director of Graduate Studies; Julie Burnett, Comp Lit Student Services Coordinator
9:00 AM
Virtual
Oct
16
Professors Erik Mueggler, Anne Pitcher, and Silke Weineck, Collegiate Professorship Inaugural Lecture
LSA Collegiate Lecture Series
4:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
