Comparative Literature

Dartmouth Alums With This Major

• [Comparative Literature modified with Fine Arts], Exhibition Curator and Special Events Programmer, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  (Dartmouth '85)
• Journalist/ Reporter, Christian Science Monitor
  (MA, Dartmouth '97)
• Director of Sales, Candlewick Press
  (MA, Dartmouth '81)
• Executive, Motion Picture Assoc of Amer
  (DC, Dartmouth '82)
• President, Wilson-Rabius Consulting Inc
  (OH, Dartmouth '84)
• Spec Events Coord & Exhibit Curator, Acad Motion Pict Arts & Sciences
  (CA, Dartmouth '85)
• Pastor, The First Congregational Church
  (MA, Dartmouth '92)
• Clinical Fellow-Psychology, Mass General Hospital
  (MA, Dartmouth '97)
• Associate, AIG Global Investment Group
  (NJ, Dartmouth '99)
• National Conservation Organizer, Sierra Club
  (DC, Dartmouth '04)
• Computer Consultant, Streeter Technology Mgmt LLC
  (NJ, Dartmouth '88)

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Major Description

The program provides students with ample opportunity to study literature and culture from a wide array of critical perspectives, such as rhetoric and poetics, translation and reception, film theory and media studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, theories of ethnic and national identities, gender and queer theory, and psychoanalysis, while embracing both close attention to language and broader enquiry into the relationship between literature and other disciplines and practices, like the visual and performing arts, philosophy, history, the social sciences, religion, sciences and mathematics.

Skills Acquired

What is this?

• Critical and Analytical Thinking
• Writing and Presentation skills
• Cultural Competency and Adaptability
• Research skills
• Comprehension of value of diversity

Possible Career Paths

• Journalism
• Public Relations
• Business
• Law
• Education
• Healthcare

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