The Department of Comparative Literature
Founded in 1949, Indiana University's Department of Comparative Literature is one of the oldest and most comprehensive in the United States. We have pioneered developments that have helped to move the discipline beyond its origins in European literary and intellectual traditions, and, with the cooperation of colleagues in other departments and programs, we now stand at the crossroads of the humanities, providing our students with a rich and illuminating range of approaches to literary study - approaches that cut across national, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries, and that place literary works in the context of other expressive traditions, including other art forms such as music, film, video, painting, and architecture. While maintaining and continually enhancing our traditional strengths in European literature and thought, in Comparative Arts, in Translation Studies, and in East Asian and African literature, we have been developing strengths in such areas as diasporic studies, Persian and Mughal studies, Modern and Biblical Hebrew studies, and inter-American studies.
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