加州大学圣地亚哥分校的文学系结构复杂且与众不同，与传统的英语系或比较文学系不同，我们研究并训练学生在一个程序中研究多种语言的世界文学和文化。该系成立于1963年，代表了一群致力于研究和辩论跨国和跨学科问题的学者，评论家和作家的开创性尝试。相信当代学者“â€和未来â€â€的奖学金不再可以保留在传统的学科或国家范围内的信念，使在不同语言和文化领域工作的教师和学生聚集在一起。现在，五十年后，我们发现情况比以往任何时候都更加重要。<br> <br>电影研究小组致力于在国家和跨国背景下对电影，文学和视觉文化进行
The Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego has a complex and unusual structure in that unlike more traditional departments of English or Comparative Literature, we study and in turn train students to examine world literatures and cultures in multiple languages within a single program. The film studies group is dedicated to comparative, inter­disciplinary research on film, literature, and visual culture in both national and transnational contexts. The faculty offers courses on special topics in film history and national cinemas, such as African, American, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Russian/Soviet, as well as ethnic, diasporic, and regional cinemas such as Asian and Asian American. The faculty explores film criticism and film theory in relation to auteurs, genres, movements, and modes of representation. Methods and issues span cultural historiography, globalization, feminism, postmodernism, postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, semiotics, as well as film and the other arts (music, painting, photography, special effects, et al.).