University Recommendations

[yellow.wallpaper]

Hello!

I've been researching for the past year different programs in Comparative Literature. I want to apply to schools with major potential in funding, great professors and good location.

I hope some of you past and future applicants can help me out!

[Stately Plump]

You may need to be more specific for people to be of any real help. Pretty much all R1 schools are going to have great professors. Good location will depend widely on your personal preferences; some students would rather study in the city (at schools like NYU) and some would rather study at schools in more small-town settings (like Amherst).

You mention in your areas of interest that you are interested in French, German, and Russian lit. Do you speak all of those languages? You'll need to be pretty fluent in at least one when you start, and more likely two.

[Historiogaffe]

I don't have any Comp Lit recommendations — sorry!

Instead, I'm here to throw out my own request for recommendations: universities that have strengths in both rhetoric/composition and medieval studies. I can think of Washington, Illinois-UC, Texas-Austin, and Michigan as potential candidates. I hear OSU's rhetoric programme has kind of diminished? If anyone feels compelled to share others that leap to mind, it would be much appreciated! I find that rhetoric and medieval studies tend not to flourish in the same schools, and it makes me sad. Not sad enough to use an emoticon, but — sad.

... Okay, maybe enough.

(If specifications would be appreciated, at least on the medieval side, I'm into Middle English more than Old English, and more Arthuriana — or, dare I say, Merliniana — than Chaucer.)

[yellow.wallpaper]

You may need to be more specific for people to be of any real help. Pretty much all R1 schools are going to have great professors. Good location will depend widely on your personal preferences; some students would rather study in the city (at schools like NYU) and some would rather study at schools in more small-town settings (like Amherst).

You mention in your areas of interest that you are interested in French, German, and Russian lit. Do you speak all of those languages? You'll need to be pretty fluent in at least one when you start, and more likely two.

Hello, I am fluent in French, English and Spanish. I know pretty basic German, but haven't had the opportunity to learn Russian. I am quite fine with any location, just as long as the campus is safe. I just want a pretty good program that would hopefully specialize themselves in those three literature areas, or even in Hispanic Studies.

[Timshel]

Hello, I am fluent in French, English and Spanish. I know pretty basic German, but haven't had the opportunity to learn Russian. I am quite fine with any location, just as long as the campus is safe. I just want a pretty good program that would hopefully specialize themselves in those three literature areas, or even in Hispanic Studies.

If you are interested in Hispanic studies, I would definitely recommend looking at the UC schools.