艾默里大学比较文学系提供博士学位。向学生提供广泛的理论和跨学科课程，使他们为跨传统学科领域的研究和教学做好准备，并询问文学本身的定义。在这样做的过程中，我们将重点放在文学和语言形式的特殊性上，以及文学性和“文学”在人文学科及其他学科的批判性和实验性思维中发挥的关键作用。埃默里大学的比较文学将比较文学学位的传统目标-跨越国界的文学比较-与其他学科形式（例如哲学和精神分析）的目标结合在一起。我们还认识到采用更广泛定义的语言的重要性，例如包括那些对科学和技术发展至关重要的虚拟语言或符号系统。因此，该系鼓励跨语言
The Comparative Literature Department at Emory offers Ph.D. students a wide-ranging theoretical and interdisciplinary curriculum that prepares them to engage in research and teaching across traditional disciplinary boundaries and to interrogate the definition of the literary itself. In doing so, we maintain a strong focus on the specificity of literary and linguistic forms and the crucial role that literariness and the 'literary' play in critical and experimental thinking in the humanities and beyond. Comparative Literature at Emory brings the traditional aims of a Comparative Literature degree-the comparison of literatures across national boundaries-into constellation with the aims of other disciplinary formations such as Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. We also recognize the significance of engaging languages more broadly defined, including, for instance, those virtual languages or symbolic systems that are central to developments in the sciences and technology. The Department thus encourages theoretical reflection across linguistic and disciplinary boundaries, reflection that remains informed by vigilant attention to the intricacies and performative powers of language. Throughout our research and teaching, literature serves as the radical point of departure for thinking the challenge and difficulties involved in any act of comparison.