Overview

In recent years the students have accepted teaching positions at Barnard, Williams, Yale, Hamilton, Mount Holyoke, Vanderbilt, Harvard, UCLA, Penn State, Rutgers, The University of Massachusetts, and at a number of CUNY colleges. They have also found positions in Italy, Germany, and Turkey.

Key Features

The Comparative Literature from The City University of New York is committed to train students in both literary history and literary theory, and students should master and practice a range of critical approaches, from the established to the very recent.

Most of the doctoral faculty have joint appointments with other programs at the Graduate Center, and therefore seminars and tutorials cover a broad variety of subjects and methodologies. Students may study courses in a variety of disciplines, from the visual arts, music, theatre, and cinema to history, anthropology, and philosophy.

Students are encouraged to pursue course work in these areas, as well as in the Graduate Center's Ph.D. programs in foreign languages and literatures.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Approaches to Comparative Literature

Settler Colonialism: Cinemas of the South Atlantic, Thursdays

Queer Auteurs

Women and War in the Renaissance

Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time

Literature, the Press and imagined communities: serialized Literature in 19th C. Europe

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-26 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-04-15 00:00:00

Language

English

Credits

30 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

New York City, United States

Disciplines

Literature View 355 other Masters in Literature in United States

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

While we consider each application holistically, we expect both M.A. and Ph.D. candidates to have some degree of proficiency in two languages other than English at the time of application

CV and 10 page writing sample required

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

International Applies to you

Applies to you

Non-residents

25650 USD / year

≈ 25650 USD / year
Out-of-State

25650 USD / year

≈ 25650 USD / year
Domestic

Applies to you

In-State

14100 USD / year

≈ 14100 USD / year

Additional Details

Local students: $5,545 / semester

Living costs

New York City

United States

1819 - 3968 USD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

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Scholarships Information

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