"The comparative literature degree was extremely beneficial to me as i still use interdisciplinary means of communication."
[more]"I guess all these twists and turns have made for a pretty heterogeneous career, moving across several different fields and operating from several different positions. Although that has come at the expense of a certain kind of professional advancement, the spirit of comparative study — of playing one thing off another, of learning through the search for similarities within diversity -has been the driving energy, and it found its first expression in the Comp Lit department at Dartmouth."
[more]"I use my Comp. Lit degree every day. In fact, just yesterday I was telling a colleague how the close study of texts taught me a disciplined approach to data — to stick close to what is in the text."
[more]"I've often had occasion to think back fondly on my variegated comp. lit. major at Dartmouth (German, music, some French and Italian, assorted poetry and drama) — which distinctly paved the route to later career developments."
[more]"I loved my Comp Lit major." I worked with Peter Bien on a thesis on Joyce and Mann — a terrific professor whom I still correspond with.
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