Stony Brook University - Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies
 

 

 

The Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies (CLCS) offers two graduate programs: one in Comparative Literature (M.A. and Ph.D. degrees) and one in Cultural Studies (Ph.D. degree). The programs are distinct, with different requirements, and applicants must specify to which program they are applying, but students in one program may include the other as one of their primary fields of study.

Comparative Literature Graduate Program: Ph.D.

By "comparative" is meant nothing less than the crossing of national, linguistic, gender, genre, and class boundaries. (Not that 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 among 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...

Admission
Interested in applying for Graduate Studies in our program? Find out information of admissions.

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What constitutes satisfactory progress toward your degree? Learn about first-year evaluations, course requirements, language requirements, etc.

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