We teach standard courses in European literature, genre, theory special topics and the history of theory. In addition to a strong emphasis in Western European, Eastern European, Southeast Asian, East Asian and South Asian literatures, we also house seven language programs and their language laboratories. Comparative Literature at UGA is multicultural and interdisciplinary. At UGA Comparative Literature, you can study Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Yoruba, Kiswahili and Zulu. Comparative Literature is proud of its distinguished faculty, several of whom possess international reputations.
Faculty serve on national and international professional boards.
They are widely published, as befitting faculty in a research institution. We offer undergraduate majors in Comparative Literature and Japanese, and minors in Comparative Literature, Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Asian Languages and Literatures. Undergraduate majors and minors in this department are individuals, not numbers. You are primarily instructed by professors in small classes with individual attention rarely found in large state institutions. My colleagues and I are in the process of revivifying the graduate Program, restructuring course offerings and exams to meet changes in the discipline.