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STUDY ABROAD FOR CONCENTRATORS IN LITERATURE

Contact: Director of Studies Dr. Sandra Naddaff
snaddaff@fas.harvard.edu

Literature concentration website

Studying abroad is a particularly effective way to develop expertise in a specific national literature, and the Literature Department encourages concentrators to consider it as an integral part of their undergraduate curriculum. Concentrators should speak with Dr. Sandra Naddaff, Director of Undergraduate Studies, as early as possible in order to plan their time abroad. The appropriate time for concentrators to study abroad is the Junior year, and the department will accept relevant courses taken abroad for concentration credit. There are a variety of options for integrating the Junior tutorial requirement with study abroad, including doing field work and completing a paper while abroad, or completing the tutorial in a different semester. Please consult with Dr. Naddaff about these options.

Recommended programs:

Asia China Peking University, through CIEE
courses offered in Chinese language and literature

Hong Kong Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chinese and comparative literature

Australia
University of Sydney
America and American cities, Anglo-Saxon (Old English) studies, literature and cinema, medieval Celtic studies, medievalism, 19th century, Old Norse-Icelandic studies, Renaissance literary culture, Theater history, travel and literature

University of Western Australia, Perth
Centre for Women’s Studies, creative writing, Australian literary and culture studies, post-colonial and postmodern literatures, theatre and performance studies, English literature from the fourteenth century onwards, Shakespeare, ecology and culture, literary theory

Europe
France Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle
through CUPA or Columbia Reid Hall
Only independent department of General and Comparative Literature: intercultural research (literature, culture, history, society, comparative poetics, themes, motifs, genres), literary theory, literature and cinema, music, and painting.
Linguistic areas: francophone, English and American, German, Italian, Iberian, Slavic; cultural areas: Western, Central, and Eastern Europe; literatures of Africa, Asia, and the Americas

France Université Paris IV Sorbonne
through CUPA or Columbia Reid Hall
Latin, Greek, French and comparative literatures

France Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille I, Aix-en-Provence, through Wellesley
The University of Provence (Aix-Marseille I) is one of the most distinguished in France, second only to the University of Paris in the areas of French literature, history, and linguistics.

Germany Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, direct enroll, or through Wayne State in Munich Program

Germany Freie Universität, Berlin, direct enroll, or through Columbia University

Ireland Trinity College, Dublin
Anglo-Irish literature

Italy University of Bologna, through ECCO

Russia Russian State Humanities University, through Middlebury

Spain Universidad Complutense de Madrid, through IES
Arab, German, Classic, Slavic, French, Hebrew, English, Spanish, Italian, Romance, Linguistics, literary theory and comparative literature

Spain Universidad de Salamanca, through IES

United Kingdom
England Cambridge University, Pembroke College (spring or full year)
British Literature, Middle Ages to present day—including Greek tragedy. Comparison with Commonwealth, American, other overseas work in English, and classical and modern European Literature

England Oxford University (spring or full year)
Literature from Old and Middle English to the Romantic Age, recent advances in Literary Theory, Women’s Literature

England University of York (spring or full year)
Medieval, 20th century, film theory, post-colonialism, drama

England University of Leeds (spring or full year)
Old and Middle English, Renaissance and Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century and Romantic Literature, Victorian, Twentieth Century, Theater Studies, Icelandic Studies, American Literature and Culture, Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies

England King's College, London (fall, spring or full year)
Comparative literatures of 11 languages, interdisciplinary study/cross-departmental course offerings

Northern Ireland Queen's University, Belfast (spring or full year)
Irish Literature, 18th and 20th Century Literature, Victorian Literature, Medieval Literature, Renaissance Literature, The Seamus Heaney Center for Poetry

Scotland University of St. Andrews (fall, spring or full year)
Medieval Literature, Poetry, Theatrical Literature, Modern British/American Literature

Latin America and Caribbean
Argentina Harvard College Study Abroad Program in Buenos Aires
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Santiago, facilitates direct enrollment by Harvard students in one (or more) of three universities in Buenos Aires

Chile Harvard College Study Abroad Program in Santiago
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Santiago, facilitates direct enrollment by Harvard students in one (or more) of three universities in Santiago

Mexico El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City
Urban campus devoted entirely to humanities and social sciences

Mexico Universidad de las Americas, Puebla
Courses offered in History, Spanish Literature, and Mexican/Latin American Culture. Study/live at newly constructed residential campus in suburban Mexico City