在比较文学系，我们研究文学的范围，传播方式以及语言，地理，文化，政治和学科边界的动态穿越。我们的学生在从事各种语言，传统和学术领域的工作时，具有全球视野和跨学科视野。教职员工开设的课程涵盖了世界文学的古代和近代，探讨了关键，理论和历史问题以及最广义的代表问题。这种类型的分析扩展了文学领域，涵盖了多种文化实践-从历史，哲学和法律文本到视觉和流行文化的文物-揭示了文学作为物质表达和形式的作用。象征性交换。每年平均招收六个全额资助的学生进入其博士学位课程。
In the Department of Comparative Literature, we examine the range of literature, its transmission, and its dynamic traversal of linguistic, geographic, cultural, political, and disciplinary boundaries. Our students adopt a global perspective and interdisciplinary outlook as they pursue work in various languages, traditions and academic fields. Faculty members offer courses embracing the ancient and modern periods of world literature, exploring critical, theoretical, and historical issues, as well as problems of representation in the broadest sense. This type of analysis expands the field of literature to include a wide variety of cultural practices from historical, philosophical, and legal texts to artifacts of visual and popular culture revealing the roles literature plays as a form of material expression and symbolic exchange. Admitting an average of six fully-funded students a year into its doctoral program, the department provides an intimate intellectual setting in which students work closely with core faculty while exploring the considerable resources offered by other NYU departments and by universities participating in the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium (Columbia University, CUNY, Princeton University, Rutgers University, Stonybrook, Teachers' College - Columbia, Fordham University, and The New School for Social Research).