Tutorial - Sophomore Year

Harvard FAS

If you’re taking this course, it means Comparative Literature is your concentration or your secondary field. Welcome to the discipline! But what does it mean to be a comparatist? This spring, we will wander together through the different paths Comparative Literature offers.This is a course on history and methods. We will trace how the understanding of what it means to compare has changed through time and space. We will examine the sociopolitical roots of the discipline and think…