Comparative Literature

Comparative Literature: Introduction

Faculty Affiliation

Arts and Science

Degree Programs

Comparative Literature

MA and PhD

Collaborative Specializations

The following collaborative specializations are available to students in participating degree programs as listed below:

Book History and Print Culture
- Comparative Literature, MA, PhD
Diaspora and Transnational Studies
- Comparative Literature, MA, PhD
Jewish Studies
- Comparative Literature, MA, PhD
Sexual Diversity Studies
- Comparative Literature, MA, PhD
South Asian Studies
- Comparative Literature, MA, PhD
Women and Gender Studies
- Comparative Literature, MA, PhD

Overview

The Centre for Comparative Literature offers Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degree programs to students qualified to pursue literary studies involving multiple languages. Students pursue research across languages and national literatures, engaging with theoretical issues that cross traditional disciplines. The centre’s faculty and students work across linguistic boundaries, employing rigorous critical and theoretical lenses to bring into dialogue literature and other cultural forms that are often kept apart by artificially constructed institutional, geographical or ideological boundaries.

At the heart of the research by faculty and students is the close engagement with cultural products in their original languages. Knowledge of languages is a key component in our practice of Comparative Literature. Comparative Literature examines both the contexts of literature and the interaction among literatures. The practice of Comparative Literature at Toronto extends to visual expression as well, with film, photography or graphic novels figuring prominently in the projects of many faculty and students. Graduate programs at the Centre for Comparative Literature foster rigorous reading practices and theoretical reflection.

Interested applicants should consult the Centre's website. It provides updated information about course scheduling and academic profiles of graduate faculty.

Contact and Address

Web: complit.utoronto.ca
Email: baba.nguyen@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 813-4041
Fax: (416) 813-4040

Centre for Comparative Literature
University of Toronto
Isabel Bader Theatre
3rd Floor, 93 Charles Street West
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K9
Canada

Comparative Literature: Graduate Faculty

Full Members

Bahoora, Haytham - BA, MA, PhD

Bai, Ruoyun - BA, MA, PhD

Cazdyn, Eric - BA, MA, PhD

Comay, Rebecca - BA, MA, PhD

Dowling, Sarah - AB, AM, PhD (Associate Director)

Esonwanne, Uzoma - BA, MA, PhD

Havercroft, Barbara - BA, MA, PhD

Jagoe, Eva-Lynn - BA, MA, PhD

James, Conrad - PhD

Kleber, Pia - BA, MA, MA, PhD

Komaromi, Ann - MA, DPhil (Director)

Kortenaar, Neil ten - BA, MA, PhD

LeBlanc, Julie - BA, PhD

Nyquist, Mary - BA, MA, PhD

Ricco, John - BA, MA, PhD

Ross, Jill - BA, MA, PhD

Rupp, Stephen - BA, MA, MA, MPH, PhD

Sakaki, Atsuko - BA, MA, PhD

Zilcosky, John - BA, MA, MA, PhD

Members Emeriti

Hutcheon, Linda - BA, MA, PhD

Lahusen, Thomas - MA, PhD

Li, Victor - BA, MA, PhD

Stock, Brian - AB, PhD

Associate Members

Budde, Antje - PhD

Clark, Caryl - BMus, MA, PhD

Esterhammer, Angela - BA, PhD

Goetschel, Willi - PhD

Gunderson, Erik - BA, MA, PhD

Hewitt, Marsha - BA, MA, PhD

Holland, Kate - MA, PhD

Kandiyoti, Dalia - PhD

Keith, Alison - BA, MA, PhD, FRSC

Leonard, Garry - BA, MA, PhD

Matus, Jill - BA, MA, PhD

Meng, Yue - BA, MA, MA, PhD

Motsch, Andreas - PhD

Noyes, John - BA, MA, PhD

Paterson, Janet - BA, MA, PhD

Revermann, Martin - PhD

Robins, William - BA, MPH, PhD

Somigli, Luca - PhD

Stern, Simon - BA, JD, PhD, Chair in Electronic Commerce

Trojanowska, Tamara - MA, PhD

Wohl, Victoria - BA, MA, PhD

Comparative Literature: Comparative Literature MA, PhD Courses

Students should consult the Comparative Literature website for the list of currently offered courses.

Course Code	Course Title
COL1000H	The Bases for Comparison
COL1900H	Reading and Research for the MA
COL2100H	Special Topics Course
COL4000Y	Practicum on Research and Bibliography in Comparative Literature
COL5016H	Dramatic Text and Theoretical Communication: Bertolt Brecht, Robert Lepage, and Robert Wilson
COL5018H	Gender and Agency
COL5027H	Memory, Trauma, and History
COL5032H	Feminist Approaches to Medieval Literature
COL5033H	Visual Portraitures in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives
COL5047H	The Two Avant-Gardes
COL5072H	Affinities: Readings of Realism and Radicalism
COL5081H	Benjamin’s Arcades Project
COL5086H	Literature, Culture, and Contact in Medieval Iberia
COL5094H	Forms of Critical Writing
COL5096H	The Problem of Translation: Historical, Theoretical, and Pragmatic Perspectives
COL5101H	Diasporic Cities: Itinerant Narratives of Metropoles by Travellers and Expatriates
COL5109H	Jean-Luc Nancy: Retreating the Aesthetic
COL5110H	Post-Capitalist Fantasy: Culture, Politics, Subjectivity
COL5111H	Revenge, Resistance, Race, and Law
COL5117H	Freud and Psychoanalysis
COL5118H	Sovereignty: Hobbes and his 21st-Century Successors
COL5122H	Text and Digital Media
COL5124H	Public Reading: Literature and the Formation of Critical Publics
COL5125H	Literature, Trauma, Modernity
COL5126H	Sports Narrated: Literary and Interdisciplinary Explorations
COL5127H	Queer Ethics and Aesthetics of Existence
COL5128H	Tragedy: Instantiations of a Dramatic Form in Theatre, Philosophy, Opera, and Popular Cinema
COL5129H	New Addictions for the Anthropocene
COL5130H	Comparison and "the Human"
COL5131H	Non Disclosure Acts
COL5132H	One Philosopher and One Artist: Towards a New Practice of Comparison
COL5133H	Comparative Modernisms
COL5135H	Climate Genres
COL5136H	Aesthetics of Space, Place, and Power
COL5137H	Paraliterary Practices and Dialogic Creativity
COL5138H	Dramaturgy of the Dialectic
COL5139H	Critical Race Theory
COL5140H	Beckett and Philosophy
COL5141H	Beyond the Anthropocene: New Directions in Environmental Humanities
COL5143H	Dramaturgies of the Dialectic Part I: Hegel: The End of Art and the Endgame of Theater
COL5144H	Dramaturgies of the Dialectic Part II: Tragedy and Philosophy after Hegel
COL5145H	Poetics of Personhood
COL5142H	Women and Sex and Talk
COL5146H	Written in Blood: Caribbean Readings in Conflict and Healing
COL5147H	Books at Risk
COL5148H	Post-Conflict Literatures: Europe, Africa, and the Americas
COL5149H	The Art of Combat: Violence, Culture, and Competition
COL5150H	The Palliative: Art, Politics, Ecology, Medicine
COL5151H	The Theatre of Science
JCD5135H	Race, Politics, and Jewishness
JCD5136H	Migration and Memory: Narratives of Jewish Exile and Displacement
JCO5121H	Classics and Theory Seminar
JFC5025H	Feminism and Postmodernism: Theory and Practice
JFC5105H	Collections of Knowledge: Encyclopedism and Travel Literature in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800)
JFC5129H	Performative Autobiographical Acts: Painted and Photographic Representations of Self in Personal and Political Testimonials
JFC5136H	Allegory and Allegorism in Literature and Fine Arts
JGC1855H	Critical Theory in Context: The French-German Connection
JHL1282H	Comparative Totalitarian Culture
JHL1680H	Revolutionary Women’s Cultures in East Asia, Early to Mid 20th Century
JLE5225H	The Passage from History to Fiction
JLV5134H	Theories of the Novel
JOS5019H	Cervantes and Renaissance Humanism
JOS5029H	Reading Cervantes