FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Department of Comparative Literature
Address: Box 23342, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3342
Telephone: (787) 764-0000, ext. 2493
E-mail: complit@uprrp.edu
Web address: http://humanidades.uprrp.edu/literatura_comparada
DEGREE OFFERED
MA in Comparative Literature
FACULTY
Ana H. Fernández-Sein, PhD, Harvard University, 1986, Professor.
Galdós
and the modern novel; gothic novel; eighteenth, nineteenth, and
twentieth century fiction.
Susan Homar, PhD, New York University, 1982, Professor.
Caribbean literature; narratology; postmodern novel; history and theory of dance; dance and technology.
Marian E. Polhill, PhD, Cornell University, 2002, Associate Professor.
Cultural studies; Medieval and Renaissance poetry and narrative; pre-modern literatures; Germanic literatures; scientific discourses; gender studies.
Carmen Rita Rabell-Reyes, PhD, State University of New York, 1990; PhD, Columbia University, 2000, Professor.
Renaissance and baroque literature and drama; literature and legal discourse; literary theory; Renaissance and medieval narrative.
Rubén Ríos-Ávila, PhD, Cornell University,1983, Professor.
Literary theory; contemporary poetry; Lacanian theory; literature and film; contemporary Spanish American and Puerto Rican literature.
María Elena Rodríguez-Castro, PhD, Princeton University, 1988, Professor.
Cultural studies; Spanish Caribbean literature; literary theory; postcolonial literature and theory.
ASSOCIATED FACULTY
Isabel Huyke, Doctorate, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1988, Professor, Department of Foreign Languages.
Classical and medieval poetry and narrative; Latin, Greek.
Luce López-Baralt, PhD, Harvard University, 1974, Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies.
Spanish Golden Age literature; comparative mystical studies; Hispano-Arab and Hispano-Moorish literatures.
Mara Negrón, Doctorate, Université de
Paris VIII, 1990, Professor, Department of Humanities, College
of General Studies.
Contemporary French and European literature;
deconstruction; women’s studies; psychoanalysis; translation;
theater.
Ada M. Vilar-de-Kerkhoff, DML, Middlebury Graduate
Language Schools, 1979, Professor, Department of Foreign Languages.
Literary theory; semiotics; narratology; poststructuralist
theory; French literature, language, and composition; academic
computing and technology.
MASTERS PROGRAM
Requirements for Admission
Applicants must fulfill all the general requirements for admission to graduate studies at the Río Piedras Campus. They must also fulfill the following requirements:
- An undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature, Liberal
Arts, or their equivalent. Candidates who have not fulfilled
certain requirements of the Graduate Committee may be classified
as transitional students until they fulfill those requirements.
- Knowledge of a third language for research purposes. Candidates
who have not fulfilled this requirement must begin to do so
in their first semester of the program.
- Two letters of recommendation.
- A three-page essay. Applicants
will be asked to analyze and critique an essay (provided by
the department) related to the field Comparative Literature.
Requirements for Graduation
Candidates for the master’s degree must meet all the Río
Piedras Campus’s requirements for graduation and complete
the following credits:
- A minimum of 21 graduate credits in comparative literature
- A maximum of 9 graduate credits in Hispanic
Studies, English, History, Philosophy, Linguistics, or similar
fields, approved by the Graduate Program
- A maximum of 9 credits
taken at other universities or colleges, subject to approval
by the Graduate Committee
- A maximum of 6 credits in independent
study courses, approved according to the rules of the Graduate
Program
In addition, students are required to have acquired a reading
knowledge of a third language, to pass a written comprehensive
examination, and to orally present and defend a thesis before an
Examination Committee composed of the thesis advisor and two readers.
Program of Study
|
Program Requirements |
Credits |
Courses
in Comparative Literature |
21 |
Courses
in Hispanic Studies, English, Linguistics, or similar fields |
9 |
LITE
6900 Comprehensive Examination |
0 |
LITE 6895 Master's
Thessis |
0 |
LITE 6896 Thessis Continued |
0 |
Total
Credits |
30 |
Description of Courses (PDF)
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