About

Global and Comparative Literature studies literature and cultural texts across national, linguistic, cultural, and temporal boundaries. It also examines literature in interaction with other cultural forms. Its ultimate goal is an understanding of literary and cultural productions as global phenomena. Additionally, a core concern of the Global and Comparative Literature Program at Georgetown University is finding ethical forms of relation across languages and cultures through the practices of reading, writing, and translation.

Our comparative approaches embrace connections, exchanges, analogies, and differences among works, authors, periods or genres and engage literatures in dialogues with other disciplines, including history, politics, sociology, linguistics, translation studies, philosophy, visual arts, music, and film studies.