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  • Carmine Iannoccone '83

    July 1, 2008

    "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."

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  • Justine Casell '81

    July 1, 2008

    "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."

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  • Tom Grey '79

    July 1, 2008

    "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."

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  • Peter Wilson '77

    July 1, 2008

    "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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  • Tish O'Connor '76

    July 1, 2008

    "For me, comparative literature was a direct springboard to a career that I have found intellectually stimulating."

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