Northwestern’s Comparative Literary Studies program invites students to interrogate how stories migrate across linguistic, national, and disciplinary borders. Majors master at least two literary traditions in the original languages while engaging critical theory—from post-colonialism to digital humanities—to question the very notion of a literary canon. Collaborative seminars with faculty in philosophy, film, and the sciences foster kaleidoscopic perspectives on genre, translation, and media adaptation. Chicago’s global library archives, film festivals, and multilingual communities supply rich field sites for independent research. By graduation, students wield advanced textual analysis, cultural fluency, and creative problem-solving prized in publishing, diplomacy, and the arts economy.
Curate a bilingual digital anthology of pandemic poetry from five continents
Use network analysis to visualize intertextual references in Latin American magical realism
Produce a short animated adaptation of an Edo-period Japanese folktale for modern audiences
Map the global reception of Dante’s Inferno through 20th-century political cartoons
Analyze climate anxiety motifs across Anglophone and Francophone sci-fi novels
Stage a multilingual performance juxtaposing Sophocles and contemporary prison memoirs
Create a podcast series on translation ethics with interviews from refugee writers
Compare narrative voice in AI-generated fiction across English and Mandarin corpora
Develop a crowdsourced glossary of untranslatable ecological terms
Research cross-cultural reimaginings of Medea in feminist theatre scripts
Design a VR exhibit exploring architectural metaphors in post-Soviet poetry
Quantify gendered pronoun usage shifts in modern Arabic short stories
Compile a digital map linking Caribbean migration routes to literary settings
Write a graphic essay on cyberpunk aesthetics in East Asian cinema adaptations
Translate and annotate Indigenous Australian songlines with interactive storytelling
Examine the role of epigraphs in framing global climate-fiction narratives
Produce a screenplay weaving together epistolary fragments from World War I diaries
Interrogate texts beyond borders and languages through Northwestern’s Comparative Literary Studies major.
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