Program Highlights
Why Study Comparative Literature?
An Indispensable Asset
In our increasingly globalized world, Comparative Literary Studies is an excellent foundation to work in any field where critical thinking, strong writing skills and foreign language comprehension are required.
Video Testimonials - Comparative Literature Senior Seminar
Watch Comp Lit Seniors share about their Senior Theses
Hear from CLS seniors about their senior theses from Fall 2023!
Events
May
7
2026
GAMS lecture: Intimate Cartographies, Collective Memories
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Evanston
The Global Avant-Garde and Modernist Studies cluster presents... Monica Szurmuk // Visiting Professor, Stanford University // Senior Re...
May
14
2026
How to Write a Biography? On Witold Gombrowicz’s Years in Argenti...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Please join us! Thursday, May 14, 2026 12:00-1:30pm Kresge 3-364 Slavic Languages and Literatures seminar room How to Write a Biography...