Dec 05, 2025  
Course Catalog 2025-2026 
    
Course Catalog 2025-2026

Comparative Literature


Stiliana Milkova, Professor of Comparative Literature; director

Anna C. Levett, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

Appointed by Courtesy
Wendy Beth Hyman, Donald R. Longman Professor of English
Claire T. Solomon, Professor of Hispanic Studies

Affiliated Faculty/Staff
William Patrick Day, Professor of Cinema and Media and English
Hsiu-Chuang Deppman, Professor of Chinese and Cinema and Media
Sebastiaan Faber, Professor of Hispanic Studies
DeSales Harrison, Professor of English
Vladimir V. Ivantsov, Assistant Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Emer S. O’Dwyer, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies and History
Kirk W. Ormand, Nathan A. Greenberg Professor of Classics
Christopher V. Trinacty, Professor of Classics


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Comparative literature is the study of literature, theory, and criticism across the boundaries of language, nation, culture, artistic medium, genre, and historical period. Faculty in the Comparative Literature Program at Oberlin College are drawn from across the humanities, arts, and social sciences.

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Majors, Minors, and Integrative Concentrations


Curriculum

The curriculum emphasizes these important areas of the discipline:

  • Literary Theory
  • Literature and the Other Arts
  • World Literature
  • Asian and European Languages and Literatures
  • Literary Translation

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