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Institutions
Domain-Related Associations and Organizations
The American Comparative
Literature Association
International Comparative
Literature Association (ICLA)
The British Comparative Literature Association
Canadian Comparative Literature
Association
Comparative
Literature Association of Spain
The Modern Language Association
Southern Comparative Literature
Association
ALTA American
Literary Translators Association
Universities with Comparative Literature Departments and Programs
(in alphabetical order)
American University of Paris
Department of English and Comparative Literature, 31 Avenue Bosquet,
75007 Paris, France
Arizona State University
Program in Comparative Literature, Department of English, Tempe,
AZ 85287-0302
Beloit College
Program in Comparative Literature, 700 College Street, Beloit, WI
53511
Bloomfield College
Department of Literature, 467 Franklin Street, Bloomfield, NJ 07003
Brandeis University
Department of Romance and Comparative Literature, P.O. Box 9110,
Waltham, MA 02254-9110
Brigham Young University
Department of Comparative Literature, 3010 JKHB, Provo, UT 84602
Brown University
Department of Comparative Literature, Box E, 20 Manning Walk, Providence,
RI 02912
Bryn Mawr College
Bi-college Major in Comparative Literature, Bryn Mawr College and
Haverford College, 101 North Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
California State
University, Fullerton
Department of English and Comparative Literature, P.O. 34080, Fullerton,
CA 92634-9480
California State University, Long
Beach
Department of Comparative Literature and Classics, 1250 Bellflower
Boulevard, Long Beach, CA 90840
Case Western Reserve University
Program in Comparative Literature, Department of Modern Languages
and Literatures, Guilford House, 11112 Bellflower, Cleveland, OH 44106-7118
Catholic University of America
Program in Comparative Literature, 323 Marist Hall, Washington, DC
20064
Cedar Crest College
Program in Comparative Literature, Department of International Languages,
100 College Drive, Allentown, PA 18104
City University
of New York, Brooklyn College
Program in Comparative Literature, Brooklyn, NY 11210
City University of New York, Graduate
School and University Center
Program in Comparative Literature, 33 West 42nd Street, New York,
NY 10036
City University of New York,
Queens College
Department of Comparative Literature, Kiely Hall 310, Kissena Boulevard,
Flushing, NY 11367
City University of New York
, Hunter College
Program in Comparative Literature, Department of Romance Languages, 695
Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021
The Claremont Graduate Humanities Center
Program in Cultural Studies, 710 North College Avenue, Claremont,
CA 91711
Clark University
Program in Comparative Literature, Department of Foreign Languages
and Literatures, Eastabrook Hall 302, Worcester, MA 01610-1477
College of William and Mary
Program in Literary and Cultural Studies, The Charles Center, Tucker
Hall, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
The College of Wooster
Program in Comparative Literature, Wooster, OH 44691
Columbia University
Committee on Comparative Literature, 602 Philosophy Hall, New York,
NY 10027
Cornell University
Field of Comparative Literature, 145 Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca,
NY 14853-3201
Dartmouth College
Program in Comparative Literature, 6051 Dartmouth Hall, Hanover,
NH 03755-3511
Drexel University
Program in Comparative Literature, Department of Humanities and Communications,
3030 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Duke University
Program in Literature, Art Museum 104, Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0670
Eckerd College
Program in Comparative Literature, 4200 54th Avenue South, St. Petersburg,
FL 33711
Emory University
Program in Comparative Literature, 212-A Humanities Building, Atlanta,
GA 30322-2290
Farleigh Dickinson University
Department of English and Comparative Literature, 840 River Road,
Teaneck, NJ 07666
Florida Atlantic University
Department of English and Comparative Literature, P.O. Box 3091,
Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991
Fordham University College at Lincoln
Center
Program in Comparative Literature, 113 West 60th Street, New York,
NY 10023
Georgia Southern University
Minor in Comparative Literature, Department of Literature and Philosophy
P.O. Box 8023, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460-8023
Goddard College
Comparative Literature Concentration, Plainfield, VT 05667
Gonzaga University
Program in Literary Studies, Spokane, WA 99258
Hamilton College
Department of Comparative Literature, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton,
NY 13323
Hampshire College
Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities and Arts,
Amherst, MA 01002
Harvard University
Department of Comparative Literature, Boylston Hall 401, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Haverford College
Bi-college Major in Comparative Literature, Byrn Mawr College and
Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Department of English and Comparative Literature, Demarest Hall,
Geneva, NY 14456
Hofstra University
Department of Comparative Literature and Languages, 322 Calkins Hall,
Hempstead, NY 11550
Immaculata College
Department of Literature, Immaculata, PA19345
Indiana University
Department of Comparative Literature, Ballantine Hall 402, Bloomington,
IN 47405
Indiana University, South Bend
Department of Comparative Literature, 1700 Mishawaka Avenue, P.O.
Box 7111, South Bend, IN 46634
Johns Hopkins University
Program in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History, Humanities
Center, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-2690
Kent State University
Program in Comparative Literature, Department of English, Kent,OH
44242
Lake Forest College
Program in Comparative Literature, Lake Forest, IL 60045;
La Salle University
Department of Literature, 1900 West Olney Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
19141
Lycoming College
Department of Literature, Academy Street, Williamsport, PA 17701
Lynchburg College
Department of Literature, 1501 Lakeside Drive, Lynchburg, VA 24501-3199
Mills College
Program in Comparative Literature, Department of English and Foreign
Languages, 5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA 94613
Molloy College
Department of Literature, 1000 Hempstead Avenue, Rockville Center,
NY 11570
New York University
Department of Comparative Literature, 19 University Place, Fourth
Floor, New York, NY 10003
Northwestern University
Program in Comparative Literature and Theory, 152 Kresge Hall, Evanston,
IL 60208-2205
Oberlin College
Program in Comparative Literature, Rice 3, Oberlin, OH 44074
Occidental College
Department of English and Comparative Literature, 1600 Campus Road,
Los Angeles, CA 90041
Ohio University
Area in Comparative Literature, Department of English, Athens, OH
45701
The Ohio State University
Division of Comparative Studies, 308 Dulles Hall, 230 West Seventeenth
Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210
Pacific Lutheran University
Department of Comparative Literature, Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
The Pennsylvania State University
Department of Comparative Literature, 434-N Burrowes Building, University
Park, PA 16802
Plymouth State College
Department of Comparative Literature, Plymouth, NH 03264
Princeton University
Department of Comparative Literature, 326 East Pyne Building, Princeton,
NJ 08544
Purdue University
Program in Comparative Literature, Stanley Coulter Hall, West Lafayette,
IN 47907
Randolph-Macon Women's College
Department of Comparative Literature, 2500 Rivermont Avenue, Lynchburg,
VA 24503
Reed College
Department of Comparative Literature, 3203 S. E. Woodstock Boulevard,
Portland, OR 97202-8199
Rutgers, The State University of
New Jersey
Program in Comparative Literature, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
San Diego State University
Department of English and Comparative Literature, 5500 Campanile
Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-8140
San Francisco State University
Department of World and Comparative Literature, 1600 Holloway, San
Francisco, CA 94132
Sarah Lawrence College
Department of Comparative Literature, One Meadway Drive, Bronxville,
NY 10708
Scripps College
Joint Program in Literature, Pomona and Scripps Colleges, Balch Hall,
1030 Columbia Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711
Shepherd College
Department of Comparative Literature, Sheperdstown, WV 25443
Smith College
Program in Comparative Literature, Wright Hall, Northampton, MA 01063
Southern Connecticut State
University
Program in Comparative Literature, Engleman Hall 119, New Haven,
CT 06515
Stanford University
Department of Comparative Literature, Encina Hall, 4th Floor, Stanford,
CA 94305-2031
State University of New York,
Binghamton
Department of Comparative Literature, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
State University of New York, Buffalo
Department of Comparative Literature, 638 Clemens Hall, Buffalo,
NY 14260-4610
State University of New York,
College at Geneseo
Program in Comparative Literature, Geneseo, NY 14454
State University of New York, College
at New Paltz
Program in Comparative Literature, New Paltz, NY 12561
State University of New York, Stony
Brook
Program in Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Studies,
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3355
St. Lawrence University
Department of Comparative Literature, Canton, NY 13617
St. Mary's College of Maryland
Department of Comparative Literature, St. Mary's City, MD 20686
St. Olaf College
Department of Comparative Literature, 1520 St. Olaf Avenue, Northfield,
MN 55057
Swarthmore College
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, 500 College Avenue,
Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397
Trinity College
Program in Comparative Literature, Department of Modern Languages,
Hartford, CT 06106-3100
Tufts University
Interdisciplinary Program in World Literature, Olin Building, Medford,
MA 02155
United States Military Academy
Department of Comparative Literature, West Point, NY 10996-5000
University of Arkansas
Program in Comparative Literature, Kimpel Hall 333, Fayetteville,
AR 72701
University of Arizona
Committee on Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, 1239 North
Highland, Tucson, AZ 85721
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Comparative Literature, 4418 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley,
CA 94720-2510
University of California, Davis
Program in Comparative Literature, 922 Sproul Hall, Davis, CA 95616-8685
University of California, Irvine
Program in Comparative Literature, Department of English and Comparative
Literature, Irvine, CA 92717-6718
University of California, Los Angeles
Program in Comparative Literature, 2326 Murphy Hall, Los Angeles,
CA 90095-1536
University of California, Riverside
Program in Comparative Literature, Department of Literatures and
Languages, Riverside, CA 92521
University of California, San Diego
Department of Literature, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0410
University of California, Santa Barbara
Program in Comparative Literature, Phelps Hall 4206, Santa Barbara,
CA 93106
University of California,
Santa Cruz
Board of Studies in Literature, 157 Kresge College, Santa Cruz, CA
95064
University of Chicago
Department of Comparative Literature, 1050 East 59th Street, Chicago,
IL 60637
University of Cincinnati
Department of English and Comparative Literature, 248 McMicken Hall,
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0069
University of Colorado, Boulder
Program in Comparative Literature, Campus Box 358, Boulder, CO 80309-0358
University of Connecticut
Program in Comparative Literature, Box U-57, Storrs, CT 06269-1057
University of Dallas
Program in Literature, Irving, TX 75062-4799
University of Delaware
Progam in Comparative Literature, Department of Foreign Languages
and Literatures, Newark, DE 19716
University of Georgia
Department of Comparative Literature, Park Hall, Room 127, Athens,
GA 30602-6204
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Program in Comparative Literature, 2070 Foreign Languages Building,
707 S. Matthews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801
University of Iowa
Program in Comparative Literature, 425 English-Philosohpy Building,
Iowa City, IA 52242-1408
University of Kansas
Concentration in Comparative Literature, Lawrence, KA 66045
University of Kentucky
Program in Comparative Literature, 1153 Paterson Tower, Lexington,
KY 40506
University of Maryland, College Park
Program in Comparative Literature, South Campus, Surge Building 2107,
College Park, MD 20742
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Department of Comparative Literature, 303 South College, Amherst,
MA 01003
University of Michigan
Program in Comparative Literature, 2015 Tisch Hall, Ann Arbor, MI
48109-1003
University of Minnesota, Duluth
Department of Comparative Literature, Duluth, MN 55812
University of Minnesota,
Twin Cities
Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, 350 Folwell
Hall, 9 Pleasant Street, SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0213
University of New Mexico
Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Department
of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Ortega Hall, Room 229, Albuquerque,
NM 8713
University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill
The Curriculum of Comparative Literature, 341 Dey Hall, CB 3150,
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3150
University of Oklahoma
Department of Comparative Literature, 660 Parrington Oval, Norman,
OK 73019
University of Oregon
Program in Comparative Literature, Eugene, OR 97403-5242
University of the Pacific
Program in Comparative Literature, 3601 Pacific Avenue, Stockton,
CA 95211
University of Pennsylvania
Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, 420 Williams
Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
University of
Puerto Rico
Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, San Juan,
PR 00931
University
of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
Program in Comparative Literature, Department of Humanities, Mayaguez,
PR 00681
University of Rhode Island
Program in Comparative Literature, Department of Modern and Classical
Languages and Literatures, Kingston, RI 02881
University of Rochester
Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Rochester,
NY 14627-0001
University of the South
Program in Comparative Literature, Sewanee, TN 37375
University of South Carolina
Program in Comparative Literature. John Welsh Humanities Building,
Columbia, SC 29208
University of Southern California
Program in Comparative Literature, THH 234, University Park, Los
Angeles, CA 90089-0353
University of Tennessee
Program in Comparative Literature, 710 McClung Tower, Knoxville,
TN 37996
University of Texas, Austin
Department of Comparative Literature, Calhoun Hall 217, Austin, TX
78712
University of Texas, Dallas
Concentration in Studies in Literature, Department of Humanities,
P.O. Box 830688, Mail Station J031, Richardson, TX 75083-0688
University of Toledo
Program in Comparative Literature, Toledo, OH 43606
University of Tulsa
Department of Comparative Literature, 600 South College Avenue, Tulsa,
OK 74104
University of Utah
Program in Comparative Literature, Department of Languages and Literatures,
1400 LNCO, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
University of Virginia
Program in Comparative Literature, 302 Cabell Hall, Charlottesville,
VA 22903
University of Washington
Department of Comparative Literature, Box 354338, Seattle, WA 98195-4338
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Department of Comparative Literature, 934 Van Hise Hall, Madison,
WI 53706-1380
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Department of English and Comparative Literature, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee,
WI 53201
Vanderbilt University
Program in Comparative Literature, Box 63, Station B, Nashville,
TN 37235
Washington State University
Department of Comparative American Cultures, Wilson Hall, Room 111,
Pullman, WA 99164-4010
Washington University
Program in Comparative Literature, Box 1107, #1 Brookings Drive,
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Wayne State University
Program in Comparative Literature, 51 West Warren, Room 2242, Detroit,
MI 48202
Webster University
Department of Comparative Literature, 470 E. Lockwood Avenue, St.
Louis, MO 63119
West Chester University
Program in Comparative Literature, West Chester, PA 19383
West Virginia University
Program in Comparative Literature, Department of Foreign Languages,
Box 6296, Morgantown, WV 29506
Wheaton College
( Massachusetts) Department of Comparative Literature, Norton, MA
02766
Williams College
Department of Comparative Literature, Williamstown, MA 01267
Wittenberg University
Department of Comparative Literature, P.O. Box 720, Springfield,
OH 45501
Yale University
Department of Comparative Literature, P.O. Box 208299, New Haven,
CT 06520-8299
Online
Resources
Archetypes
in World Literature
A course in World Literature, where each of 8 units couples a Great Work
with a twentieth-century text to illustrate the endurance and transformations
of seminal archetypes
The
Dante Project at Darthmouth
The project's database combines computer technology with more than 600
years of commentary tradition on Dante Alighieri's major poem, the Divina
Commedia
The
ILTweb Digital Dante Project at Columbia
A long-term effort of the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia
University to prototype and develop an online, multimedia Dante-related
academic resource combining traditional elements of scholarly research
with new communication and presentation possibilities enabled by networked
digital technology
Renaissance
Dante in print
An exhibition presenting Renaissance editions of Dante's Divine
Comedy from the John A. Zahm Dante Collection at the University of Notre
Dame, together with selected treasures from The Newberry Library
The
Decameron Web
Through a creative use of technology, the project provides the reader
with an easily accessible and flexible yet well-structured wealth of information
on the literary, historical and cultural context of the Decameron
Directory
of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
Interactive database of scholarly and professional e-conferences
Electronic
Literary Journal Projects
German literature magazines, literature projects on the Internet and more
(in German)
A
Selective Reference Guide for French Studies
Useful page with a self-explaining title at Stanford University
Labyrinth
Scholarly Publications
A list of on-line journals and reviews useful for medieval studies
Library
of Congress
Extensive databases
Literary
Resources on the Net
A collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with
English and American literature, limited mostly to collections of information
useful to academics
Polygraph
A peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal affiliated with the Literature
Program of Duke University
Project
Muse at the Johns Hopkins University
The academic community's primary electronic resource. Project MUSE
covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and
performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender
studies, and many others
Revues
électroniques
Revues électroniques traitant du monde antique (In French)
Mr.
William Shakespeare and the Internet
An annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources on the Internet
The
Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
Database of online texts at Rutgers
The
Perseus Project
The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the
study of the ancient world and beyond
The
Voice of the Shuttle
The mission of the project has been to provide a structured and briefly
annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established
humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward
the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences
and social sciences and with new digital media
U.
Penn's list of electronic journals on literature Yearbook
of Comparative and General Literature
Dedicated to the publication of theoretically informed research in literary
studies with a comparative, intercultural, or interdisciplinary emphasis
Publications:
Alt.journal
"The Graduate Journal of the Program in Comparative Literature"
of Emory University
CLCWeb:
Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal
"Publishes scholarship in the widest definition of the discipline
of comparative literature and culture and [...] combines traditional comparative
literature with comparative cultural studies." (University of Alberta)
Bryn
Mawr Review of Comparative Literature
Chair
et Métal
LSU's own project
Connotations
A journal for critical debate on literature in English (from Middle English
to the present), in historical context. (Englisches Seminar, WWU Münster)
Critical
Inquiry
"Critical exchange and scholarly debate in all areas of the arts
and humanities....aimed at the general reader interested in contemporary
cultural issues." (U. of Chicago)
Diacritics:
Each issue of this journal "features articles in which contributors
compare and analyze books on particular theoretical works and develop
their own positions on the theses, methods, and theoretical implications
of those works." (Project Muse)
Literary
Research / Recherche Littéraire/Studii Literare
New
Literary History
This journal outlines "the reasons for literary change, the definitions
of periods, and the evolution of styles, conventions and genres."
(Project Muse)
Philosophy
and Literature
A journal which explores "the dialogue between literary and theoretical
studies and philosophy." (Project Muse)
Surfaces
An electronic journal for comparative literature.
Yale
Journal of Criticism
Eighteenth
Century Life
Studies all aspects of European life during the enlightenment
Eighteenth
Century Studies
Studies of all aspects of Eighteenth Century life, including literature.
Journal
of the History of Ideas
"Examines the evolution of ideas and their influence on historical
developments....covers several fields of historical study including the
history of philosophy, literature, the natural and social sciences, religion,
the arts, and culture in general.
The
Lion and the Unicorn
"A theme- and genre-centered journal of international scope committed
to a serious, ongoing discussion of literature for children."
Literature
and Medicine
"Showcases the creative and critical work of renowned physician-writers,
leading literary scholars, and medical humanists."
Modernism
/ Modernity
Concentrates on "the period extending roughly from 1860 to the present...focuses
systematically on the methodological, archival, and theoretical exigencies
particular to modernist studies. It encourages an interdisciplinary approach
linking music, architecture, the visual arts, literature, and social and
intellectual history."
Modern
Fiction Studies
"Devoted to criticism and scholarship of fiction of the twentieth
century," this journal contains "essays in cultural criticism,"
as well as "articles on prominent works of modern and contemporary
literature" and book reviews.
Postmodern
Culture
An electronic journal of interdisciplinary criticism.
Speculum
A journal dedicated to Medieval Studies. "The primary geographic
focus is on Western Europe, but Byzantine, Hebrew, Arabic, and Slavic
Studies are also included."
Studies
in the Renaissance
Renaissance
Quarterly
Renaissance
News
Anticomoderno
(Italian): "Si propone di tracciare traits d'union tra punti isolati
del sistema letterario, mostrando convergenze documentate tra temi, modalità
formali e percorsi di ispirazione distanti sull'asse cronologico o sulla
mappa geografica."
Arcadia
(German)
Zeitschrift für allgemeine und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Exemplaria
" Revista Internacional de Literatura Comparada"
Prosopopeia
(Dutch)
Literary journal published by post-grad students of Comparative Literature
at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Applied
Semiotics/Sémiotique Appliquée
(English and French)
A bilingual academic journal devoted to literary semiotic research.(U.
of Toronto)
Dimension2
(English and German)
Selected articles from The Second Dimension, which intends to continue
the tradition started in 1968 with the bilingual journal Dimension.
Electronic
Bulletin of the Dante Society of America
(English and Italian)
Criticism, translation, speculation.
Europa
An "international journal covering aspects of European culture, art,
civilisation and ways of living," with contributions "from experts
in the relevant areas [...]"
Glossen
(English and German)
Published on the Web twice a year; the "internationale Zeitschrift
zur Literatur, Film, und Kunst nach 1945."
MLN:
Modern Language Notes
Published five times a year, each time with one of five topics: Comparative
Literature, Italian, German, Hispanic, or French
Canadian
Review of Comparative Literature
(English and French, occasionally Italian, German, or Russian)
"Provides a forum for scholars engaged in the study of literature
from both an international and an intra- and multi-disciplinary point
of view."
Colloquium
Helveticum
(Bern)
Compar(a)ison
(Bern)
Journal
of Comparative Literature Studies
Publication of the Penn State University
Comparative
Criticism
"An annual journal of comparative literature and cultural studies"
containing "major articles on literary theory and criticism; on a
wide range of comparative topics; and on interdisciplinary debates."
(Cambridge University Press)
New
Comparison
"A journal of Comparative and General Literary Studies" (BCLA:
British Comparative Literature Association)
Papers
on Language and Literature
"A journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature"
(Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville)
