Program Highlights

Combines courses from several national literatures.
Draws on interpretive methods from adjacent disciplines concerned with cultural discourses, languages, and representations, such as philosophy, history, religion, classics, Africana studies, feminist and gender studies, anthropology, music, and the history of art.

Sample Career Fields

Arts publicity
Film and television
Journalism
Marketing
Museum Studies
Publishing

Comparative Literature

Why study comparative literature at Geneseo?

This major situates literary and cultural production in an international perspective, focusing on particular works of literature, broadly defined, and literary history and theory. Studying texts of diverse cultures teaches students to put themselves in the shoes of people who see and experience the world very differently from their own perspectives.

Students develop a critical understanding of the ways literature functions in its social, cultural, and historical context. They’ll also learn to think across national, linguistic, and cultural boundaries in innovative, rigorous and productive ways, making them particularly well suited for today’s increasingly globalized world.