Noun
study of literary works from different cultures (often in translation)
Source: WordNetGod bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction. Nicolas Cage
I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up. Lev Grossman
Butler is the Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has taught since 1993. Source: Internet
She studied Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Irvine, briefly dabbled in Classical Arabic studies in the US, and has a Master’s in Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Source: Internet
“Essentially, it’s a lot of people who are doing work in art history, in comparative literature and history using computational tools. Source: Internet
D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University (1987). Source: Internet