Comparative Literature

2026-2027

246 courses

COMPLIT 100CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People (DLCL 100, FRENCH 175, GERMAN 175, HISTORY 106E, ILAC 175, ITALIAN 175, URBANST 153)
COMPLIT 101What Is Comparative Literature?
COMPLIT 102Film Series: Understanding Turkey Through Film (COMPLIT 302)
COMPLIT 104Reading In Depth: Deep Time in Theory, Literature and Visual Art
COMPLIT 107Why is Climate Change Un-believable? Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Action
COMPLIT 107AAncient Knowledge, New Frontiers: How the Greek Legacy Became Islamic Science (CLASSICS 47, HUMCORE 121)
COMPLIT 109AMurder, Mystery and Memory: Istanbul in Historical Fiction (COMPLIT 309A)
COMPLIT 10AXPoetry and the Imagination: A Writing Workshop
COMPLIT 10NShakespeare and Performance in a Global Context
COMPLIT 10SCThe Cult of Happiness: Pursuing the Good Life in America and China (CHINA 10SC)
COMPLIT 111KFrom Colonialism to K-pop: Race and Gender in South Korean Culture (CSRE 111A, FEMGEN 111A, KOREA 111, KOREA 222)
COMPLIT 111QTexts and Contexts: Spanish/English Literary Translation Workshop (DLCL 111Q, ILAC 111Q)
COMPLIT 113QBorges and Translation (DLCL 113Q, ILAC 113Q)
COMPLIT 114Masterpieces: Kafka (GERMAN 150, JEWISHST 145)
COMPLIT 117MScholars and Activism (COMPLIT 317, CSRE 127, NATIVEAM 117M)
COMPLIT 117PPostmodern and Contemporary American Poetry
COMPLIT 118The Gothic in Literature and Culture (COMPLIT 238E, ENGLISH 138E, ENGLISH 238E)
COMPLIT 119The Turkish Novel (COMPLIT 319)
COMPLIT 11QShakespeare, Playing, Gender
COMPLIT 121Poems, Poetry, Worlds
COMPLIT 122Literature as Performance:
COMPLIT 122ARadical Poetry: The Avant-garde in Latin America and Spain (ILAC 122A)
COMPLIT 123The Novel
COMPLIT 125JTokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Beyond: Place in Modern Japan (JAPAN 125, JAPAN 225)
COMPLIT 126Persian Poetry: Text, Space, and Image (ARTHIST 206A, ARTHIST 406A, COMPLIT 226)
COMPLIT 127Adventures in Skepticism
COMPLIT 127BThe Jewish Short Story (JEWISHST 147B)
COMPLIT 12QArt in the Metropolis (ARTSINST 11Q)
COMPLIT 133Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (AFRICAAM 133, COMPLIT 233A, CSRE 133E, FRENCH 133, JEWISHST 143)
COMPLIT 135From Maize to AI: The Nonhuman From Pre-Columbian Times to the Present (COMPLIT 235)
COMPLIT 138Literature and the Brain (COMPLIT 238, ENGLISH 118, ENGLISH 218, FRENCH 118, FRENCH 218, PSYC 126, PSYCH 118F)
COMPLIT 140The Pen and the Sword: A Gendered History (FEMGEN 141B, HISTORY 261P, ITALIAN 141)
COMPLIT 141FFiction Workshop in Spanish (ILAC 141)
COMPLIT 142The Literature of the Americas (AMSTUD 142, CSRE 142)
COMPLIT 144The Idea of the "Poetic": Poetry and Other Arts in the Twentieth Century
COMPLIT 145Reflections on the Other: Literature from the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (CSRE 145A, JEWISHST 106)
COMPLIT 145CNarratives of Enslavement (AFRICAAM 145, CLASSICS 145, CLASSICS 245)
COMPLIT 146Living Through Catastrophe (COMPLIT 349)
COMPLIT 146WPoetry in the Anthropocene: A Writing Workshop (ILAC 146W)
COMPLIT 147PPalestine in Literature and Film (COMPLIT 347P, CSRE 147P)
COMPLIT 149The Laboring of Diaspora & Border Literary Cultures (CSRE 149, ILAC 149)
COMPLIT 151Systemic Beauty: Poetry, Film, and the Divine
COMPLIT 151GHeroes and Heroines (COMPLIT 251G, GERMAN 151, GERMAN 251)
COMPLIT 154Representing Genocide (AFRICAAM 132B, CSRE 132B, JEWISHST 132)
COMPLIT 154AFilm & Philosophy (ENGLISH 154F, FRENCH 154, ITALIAN 154, PHIL 193C)
COMPLIT 154FFanon (AFRICAAM 154, CSRE 154F, FEMGEN 154F, FRENCH 154F)
COMPLIT 155Rivers That Were: Latin American Ecopoetry (ILAC 155)
COMPLIT 156Stories at the Border (ENGLISH 155, GLOBAL 120)
COMPLIT 156BLiterature and the Historical Event (JEWISHST 156B)
COMPLIT 157Time Travel in Abya Yala: Decolonising Time (CHILATST 157)
COMPLIT 158Rebelión: Black Resistance in the Caribbean (AFRICAAM 158, HISTORY 177C)
COMPLIT 15SCWho Belongs at Stanford? Discussions of a Different Sort of Education (CSRE 11SC)
COMPLIT 160MMaking the Middle Ages: Objects and Meaning Then and Now (FRENCH 130, GERMAN 160, GERMAN 360)
COMPLIT 161Literature and Belonging
COMPLIT 161ENarrative and Narrative Theory (ENGLISH 161)
COMPLIT 163A Brief History of Now: Song and Poetry from Sappho to Taylor Swift (FRENCH 163)
COMPLIT 164Solidarity - Histories, Literatures, Rationales (COMPLIT 364, CSRE 164)
COMPLIT 165Intro to English III: Latinx Literature (CHILATST 12D, ENGLISH 12D, FEMGEN 12D)
COMPLIT 166An Other Science: Technical Knowledge in Multiethnic America (CSRE 128)
COMPLIT 167Introduction to Environmental Studies (DLCL 167, ENGLISH 167A, ILAC 167A)
COMPLIT 167BEmotions and Literature: Histories, Cultures, and Societies
COMPLIT 168Literature and Postcolonial Worlds: Perspectives from Southeast Asia
COMPLIT 169Western Literature and Totalitarianism (SLAVIC 168)
COMPLIT 171Sights and Sounds of Modernity: Iran 1925-1979 (COMPLIT 271)
COMPLIT 173Vladimir Nabokov: Displacement and the Liberated Eye (COMPLIT 273, SLAVIC 156, SLAVIC 356)
COMPLIT 176Forms of Poetry at Home and Abroad: A Workshop (DLCL 176)
COMPLIT 179Rumi: Rhythms of Creation (COMPLIT 249)
COMPLIT 181Philosophy and Literature (CLASSICS 42, ENGLISH 81, FRENCH 181, GERMAN 181, ILAC 181, ITALIAN 181, PHIL 81, SLAVIC 181)
COMPLIT 184APoetry and Mysticism (COMPLIT 284A)
COMPLIT 184BNationalism, Cultural and Political (COMPLIT 384, ILAC 184, ILAC 384)
COMPLIT 185Obedience and Otherness (JEWISHST 180, PSYCH 185A)
COMPLIT 187From the Ruins: Art, Literature, and Thought ca. 1945 and Beyond (COMPLIT 387)
COMPLIT 190Architecture and Space in Twentieth-Century Iranian Cinema (FILMEDIA 292)
COMPLIT 190BArchitecture in Iran's Literature
COMPLIT 194Independent Research
COMPLIT 199Senior Seminar
COMPLIT 202GDenazification (GERMAN 202)
COMPLIT 203RQueer Romance (ENGLISH 302R, FEMGEN 203F, FRENCH 203, FRENCH 303, ITALIAN 202)
COMPLIT 204ANon-English Text Analysis for Humanists (DLCL 204)
COMPLIT 205The Power of Myth (COMPLIT 313, ILAC 205, ILAC 305)