Outcomes

he Comparative Literature Program at Dartmouth College provides it majors with:

• The ability to work with literary and cultural forms across two or more languages.
• The ability to conduct interdisciplinary research in multiple languages and identify appropriate and secondary sources.
• The ability to work with and interpret primary sources of multiple kinds (prose, poetry, film, music, visual arts, oral literature, theory, criticism, etc.).
• The command of research methodologies relevant to Comparative Literature.
• (only for majors) The ability to present original research to the program faculty in a concise, creative, and effective manner.

The major and minor prerequisite courses COLT 1 and COLT 10 require readings in methods of analysis across two or more languages. Students demonstrate their acquired research skills in their final papers. Minors in translation studies work closely with the translation studies faculty on individual translation projects that demonstrate their ability to understand literary and cultural difference across two or more languages. Graduating majors work closely with the program chair in the winter senior seminar COLT 85 to outline their research methodology and position their work as a contribution to the field. They present their BA thesis in a 15 minute public presentation and receive feedback from their advisors and the audience, which they intergrate into their thesis.

For the year 2025 - 2026:

Chair: Veronika Feuchtner

Administrator: Liz Cassell

Program Steering Committee:
Rebecca Biron, Antonio Gomez, Veronika Feuchtner, Andrea Tarnowski, Miya Xie, Yasserr ElHariry, TBD