25 Comparative Literature Masters Degree Programs

GEMMA Erasmus Mundus Master’s Degree in Women’s and Gender Studies – is a postgraduate programme that consists of two years of study (120 ECTS) and is taken in 2 out of 7 prestigious European universities that participate in the Consortium.

The Master's Degree Course in Comparative Literatures and Cultures aims to train graduates who have the ability to carry out highly responsible roles in services and organizations, both public and private, responsible for national and international cultural activities, and for the dissemination of the Italian cultural, linguistic and literary heritage in other countries of the world.

The Research Master’s in Comparative Literary Studies at Utrecht University invites you to read, think, and write beyond boundaries — national, linguistic, disciplinary. Whether you’re passionate about world literature, postcolonial theory and fiction, cultural memory, or multispecies poetics, this programme equips you to examine literature’s role in shaping and challenging the world around us.

The MLitt in German and Comparative Literature offers a unique opportunity to gain a comparative perspective on German literature through a joint qualification from the University of St Andrews (MLitt) and the University of Bonn in Germany (MA).

The University Master's Degree in Comparative Literature is conceived as an initiation Master's Degree in Research in Literary Studies of European tradition. The Master is proposed as a way to specialize the already graduated student in the theoretical and methodological knowledge of Comparative Literature and in European literary studies. In the first dimension, with special emphasis on those theoretical-critical currents and methodological approaches of greater validity and current influence. In its development, the Master's study plan is conceived as a support for the historical knowledge of the European literary tradition through the study of various literary traditions in their interconnection, that is, as networks of fluid transversality and mutual influence.

The MA in Comparative Literature course is ideal for students who want to look beyond conventional literary canons and engage in a comparative study across a wide range of cultures. Study literature from five different continents covering over 2,500 years, and compare literature written in many different languages from across the world and from antiquity to the present day. We offer a unique range of options from the ancient world right up to twenty-first-century European, Asian, Middle Eastern, African, and American literature as well as the opportunity to develop your language skills.

The master's degree in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature offers studies in literature and in various areas of critical thinking. Students gain advanced training in the main trends in Literary Theory, in the most relevant current debates in this area of knowledge, and in the various methods for analysing and interpreting texts. With this training, students gain the skills required to create their own discourse on modernity and contemporaneity in literature and art.

The MLitt in Comparative Literature explores the transnational understanding of literature and culture, providing students with a critical evaluation of classical and contemporary theoretical approaches combined with the intensive study of a broad range of texts across national, cultural, and linguistic borders, and the relations between them.

This degree is designed to give you an exciting exploration of literary and cultural products and critical issues that span national and linguistic borders as well as periods. You will become acquainted with the theory and practice of comparative literary and cultural studies, consider how concepts of national cultures cross borders and media forms, and interact with ideas of the transnational and intermedial.

The Comparative Education MA program offers students a comprehensive overview of education systems around the world. It focuses on understanding differences in how education is structured, delivered, and experienced across countries. The program enco…

The Master's program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies focuses on developing advanced interdisciplinary research skills that explore literature, culture, and theory across diverse context...

The Master of Arts in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies is designed for students interested in exploring different literary and cultural traditions across the world. The program encourages s...

The MA in Comparative Literature focuses on exploring literature across different cultures, languages, and traditions. Students are encouraged to analyze texts from multiple perspectives, often combin...

The Comparative Literature M.A. program offers students an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to the study of literature, language, and culture from multiple perspectives. It emphasizes dev...

The Comparative Literature course focuses primarily on how modern Western and Japanese literature have influenced each other. However, the discipline goes further than merely listing the relationships between specific works in the sense of a balance sheet or ingredients label. In the study of Comparative Literature, one is required to critique the major premise of globalization in literature (which brought about acceptance and transformation) and the corresponding resistance to it.