The cultural interactions between Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Iberian peninsula shaped the literary history of Arabic, Hebrew and the Ibero-Romance vernaculars in the Middle Ages through the early modern period.
Our seminar examines major themes in, and recent scholarly debates on, the historical and comparative study of these literary archives.
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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