Comparative Literature Graduate Program to Mark a Milestone

Dartmouth's MA Program in Comparative Literature recently received more than 100 applications from college graduates around the world—nearly triple the number received in previous years. 

As the graduate program approaches its 30th anniversary in 2025, its alumni can be found enriching the study and practice of the humanities through an array of roles in academia and beyond. Emerging scholars, literary translators, creative writers, and other champions of culture find their footing at Dartmouth—a factor many attribute to the program's small size and dedicated faculty.

The highly selective Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies program will welcome 11 graduate students in the fall, each of whom will pursue a self-directed curriculum of learning, reading, and research in the comparative study of literature and culture. All accepted students receive a full-tuition waiver and a stipend to cover the majority of living expenses for nine-and-a-half months.

Because as many as 40 faculty and postdoctoral scholars are affiliated with the Program in Comparative Literature, many holding joint appointments with departments across the Arts and Sciences, students have a wide array of mentors to choose from.

German Studies Associate Professor Veronika Fuechtner, chair of the comparative literature program, says the large, yet close-knit faculty prepare students for a wide trajectory of careers. Graduates go on to top humanities PhD programs around the world as well as professions that benefit from academic training in the humanities, such as the visual arts, music, and film production.

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