Comparative Literature

2012 National Student Survey: Comparative Literature at Kent was ranked 2nd in the UK for overall student satisfaction

The study of Comparative Literature transcends national and cultural boundaries to offer students a truly global view of literature. Comparative Literature at Kent offers a range of undergraduate single and joint honours programmes, exciting opportunities for study abroad and a wide module selection.

Alongside notable works originally written in the English and American traditions, students have the opportunity to study (in English translation) a range of major literary works from other countries. Novelists such as Dickens, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Woolf, and Kafka; dramatists such as Sophocles, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Brecht, and Beckett; poets such as Dante, Goethe, Baudelaire, and Plath: these are just some of the major writers whose works are included on our courses.

Our postgraduate programmes (offered at both our Canterbury and our Paris campuses) offer more specialist study supported by academics with track records in world-leading research. Students of literature are highly employable and progress on to a variety of career paths.