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.
- Department of English
- Department of French
- Department of Spanish and Portuguese
- Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
- Department of Italian
- Department of Jewish Studies
Combined Degree Programs
Comparative Literature offers three Combined Doctoral programs
Department News
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Alum Ayten Tartici Named Susan Kamil Emerging Writer
Alum Ayten Tartici Named Susan Kamil Emerging Writer by The Center for Fiction
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Ayesha Ramachandran and Marta Figlerowicz Led National Seminars for Public School Teachers
Established in 2005 by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, seminars are led by Yale faculty for K-12 teachers from participating school districts.
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Project Narrative Podcast - Jim Phelan and Marta Figlerowicz discuss the first chapter of D.O. Fagunwa’s novel, Forest of a Thousand Daemons, “The Author Meets Akara-Ogun.”
Jim Phelan and Marta Figlerowicz discuss the first chapter of D.O. Fagunwa’s novel, originally published in Yoruba in 1938.
