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  • Daniela Vasquez, Adv '10

    February 14, 2011

    As an undergraduate I enjoyed exploring different disciplines in the process of fulfilling my distributive requirements.  I had many different interests and I wasn't sure how I could pull them all together.  I decided to do the Masters in Comparative Literature because all of the classes listed and the projects purposed were interdisciplinary.  I finally found an outlet for my love of languages and knowledge!  Working in my Masters year with different language departments I learned of opportunities to live abroad.  Currently I am taking advantage of one of those programs through an assistan

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  • Brook Cosby '00

    February 10, 2011

    I was Marianne Hirsch & Irene Kacandes' student, graduating in 2000. I continue to be grateful that I majored in Comparative Literature! I completed an MA in English at UC Santa Barbara in 2003 and relied heavily on my critical theory and close reading background as both graduate student and teaching assistant. I then moved to New York and worked as an editor at Routledge.

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  • Oliver Bernstein '03

    February 5, 2011

    My comparative literature major honed my language, writing and critical thinking skills and has served me well in my career. I focused on Spanish and Portuguese literature with environmental themes -- a passion of mine. These days I am Senior Communications Strategist for the Sierra Club, the country's oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization. I use my Spanish all the time, do plenty of writing of all types and spend significant time thinking about the effect of specific language and diction on our environmental conservation goals.

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  • Alexander Fidel ’09

    February 4, 2011

    After graduating I lit out for Europe. I think the comp lit major gave me a kind of confidence about how much culture I could absorb and about what a unique experience that is. I wanted to go to a city that had a rich history in the past century, and it fell to Berlin in the end. During my three month term in the city, I got to prepare the gallery for international art fairs and work with artists in studio. The community in the industry was fascinating, and because of my comp lit background, the conceptual art that I dealt with was accessible and enjoyable.

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  • Thomas Wisniewski, Adv ’09

    February 4, 2011

    The wonderful community of scholars at Dartmouth and the A.M. in Comparative Literature gave me exactly the excellent training I needed to pursue a Ph.D. in the field. I'm now a graduate student at Harvard University planning for an academic career and studying that which I hold most dear: literature and music.

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