Here is where literary and cultural artifacts and events are gleaned. Here is where the theoretical tools needed to make them speak more fully are questioned
and comparatively refigured. Here is the Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies--the research nexus of the humanities at Stony Brook.
By "comparative" is meant nothing less than the crossing of national, linguistic,
gender and class boundaries. (Not that these boundaries are always artificial, but
someone's got to be sure one way or another and we're here to do so.) Our
eminent faculty
are some of the most productive and innovative at Stony Brook.
Our
doctoral degree program
in Comparative Literature has positioned itself at the cutting
edge of graduate education in the lettered humanities at Stony Brook since its inception
in 1977.
Ph.D.s in recent years
have landed tenure-track jobs at such institutions as Baruch College, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Skidmore College, California State University, Depaul University...
This highly successful program will soon have a sibling--we are developing a Ph.D. in
Cultural Studies that should be ready to recruit its first class in 2005 or 2006. With a
75% placement rate, CLCS is at the forefront in training future educators.
Departmental
Secretary: Mary
Moran-Luba; Melville Library E-4308