From its founding as a unique program for wide-ranging, cross-cultural, philologically and theoretically engaged studies of language and literature, the department has been committed to a broad geographic and intellectual scope, both in its graduate curriculum as well as its vibrant undergraduate course of study. Located at the heart of Yale’s campus, we are a center for multidisciplinary scholarship in over twenty languages, connecting our students and faculty to variety of departments, institutes, and working groups within Yale and beyond.
Connections on Campus
In addition to our own strong faculty, Comparative Literature has close connections to other stellar departments at Yale that our students could work with, both through its joint programs and a variety of research projects and working groups.
Combined Degree Programs
Comparative Literature offers four Combined Doctoral programs
Department News
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Lewis to Teach Fall DeVane Course Covering Yale College History, Plato
For this fall’s installation of the DeVane Lectures, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis will adapt a course he taught in the fall of 2022.
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Peter Cole Awarded the National Jewish Book Award for Translation of Aharon Shabtai's Requiem & Other Poems
The National Jewish Book Awards celebrate the writers, scholars, and storytellers whose work illuminates Jewish life, history and culture.
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JoLT Launch Party, February 9th
The Yale Journal of Literary Translation invites you to a launch party and reading of its 17th issue.
