Comparative literature is really the most dynamic field of study in the university today. The field of comparative literature seems daunting simply by its name. Granted, comparative literature is something else, but it is a greater and more exciting something else. I encounter the difficulty of articulating this every time I announce my recent transition to the comparative literature major. What comparative literature offers, and what attract people to it, are questions.
Questions are central to unravelling the mysteries of culture and the self.
When I entered the UO, I had no clue as to what major I wanted graduate with. I gave journalism a brief, yet heartfelt chance. Then I decided English was truly for me because I would be a third-generation Blake with an English degree. For the next five terms of my college career, I studied everything from feminist film criticism to nineteenth-century French literature to social and political philosophy. I was in heaven.