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  • Comparative Literature
    611 Sproul Hall
    Davis, CA 95616
    Tel: (530) 752-5799
    Fax: (530) 752-8630
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  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-0650
    Fax: (530) 752-6222
Comparative Literature

Application Deadline

  • 2013 ADMISSION
  • Priority: Jan. 15
  • Final: Mar. 1

    2013 FELLOWSHIP
  • Prospective Student Fellowship: Jan. 15
  • Continuing Student Fellowship: Dec. 1

Degrees Offered

  • M.A. Plan II
  • Ph.D. Plan B

Designated Emphases

Admission Requirements

  • Three letters of recommendation
  • GRE scores recommended
  • Sample of a recent paper on a literary topic

Degree Requirements

Students follow the degree requirements reflecting the year s/he was admitted or the most recent version below.

Administrative Bylaws

Exceptions

  • 9 quarter appointment rule exception: 12 quarters allowed

Students gain advanced knowledge of several three literatures in their original languages in a theoretically and historically informed context, and from an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. Students graduate with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research and teaching in comparative literature, and related disciplines world literature, critical theory and the humanities.

While an M.A. degree may be obtained while pursuing a Ph.D. degree, only Ph.D. applications will be accepted.

This is a departmentally-based Graduate Program.

For more information, visit the Comparative Literature website.

Contacts

Program Chair
Juliana Schiesari
(Department Chair) 		Comparative Literature (530) 752-4627
Sheldon H Lu
(Graduate Program Chair) 		Comparative Literature (530) 754-8324
Academic Advisers
Sheldon H Lu
(Adviser: Admissions and Primary Contact) 		Comparative Literature 9/1/12 - 8/31/13 (530) 754-8324
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Mandy Bachman Languages & Literatures (530) 752-5799
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Jean Telford Graduate Studies (530) 752-9292