The Literature AOC combines literature from diverse cultures across languages and genres. Students read widely, from Homer, Shakespeare, and Austen to Dostoevsky, Proust, García Márquez, Adichie, Castellanos, Mackey, and Yu Hua to explore literary expression across linguistic, national, and historic boundaries.
About the Literature Area of Concentration
Literature students pursue a wide variety of topics through both formal courses and collaboratively designed tutorials. Some Literature students want to dig deeply into Latin American novels or French fin-de-siècle fiction. Still others want to explore Chinese film, American experimental poetics, German bourgeois dramas or philosophical Russian novels. Whatever your interest, you will work side by side with faculty members in our Languages and Literatures programs. You’ll also have the opportunity to explore a broad range of approaches, applying your analytic skills to written texts, performance, film, visual and digital media, and beyond. Working with faculty from all of our language and literature programs (Classics, Chinese, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish), you will sharpen your analytical skills through close reading and in-depth discussions of texts and gain a deeper understanding and empathy for people from different backgrounds and traditions. And because the study of culture and language go hand in hand, the Literature AOC is also a good gateway to traveling, studying, and working abroad.
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Literature Faculty
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Sonia Labrador-Rodriguez Associate Professor of Spanish Language and Literature
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Fang-yu Li Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Culture
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Mariam Manzur-Leiva Spanish Instructor & TA Program Supervisor Quality Matters Coordinator & Instructional Designer
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Nova Myhill Professor of English and Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
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Jose Alberto Portugal Professor of Spanish Language and Literature
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David Rohrbacher Professor of Classics
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Carl Shaw Professor of Classics
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Wendy Sutherland Professor of German & Black European and Diaspora Studies
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Alina Wyman Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature
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Jessica Young Assistant Professor of Global English Faculty Steward of the Dr. Helen N. Fagin Collection in Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights
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Dr. Jing Zhang Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Culture International & Area Studies Director
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Arthur Miller Professor Emeritus of British and American Literature