Comparative Thought and Literature | Johns Hopkins University

The Department of Comparative Thought and Literature comprises a cadre of scholars who share a commitment to philosophical questions as they relate to art, literature, film, and history. Collaboration, exchange of ideas, and intellectual freedom are at the department’s core.

News & Announcements

October 31, 2018

New Graduate Program Handbook

The Department of Comparative Thought and Literature has recently revised its Graduate Program. Please see the new Handbook detailing the program.

September 28, 2018

Ways of Reading: Beyond, Beneath, and Beside Theory

The Graduate Students of the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University are proud to announce their bi-annual conference on February 22 and 23, 2019. We are pleased to host keynote speakers Heather Love (Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania) and Bernie Rhie (Associate Professor of English, Williams College).

August 30, 2018

Yi-Ping Ong Awarded Honorable Mention, Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize, for First Book

Prof. Yi-Ping Ong’s book The Art of Being: Poetics of the Novel and Existentialist Philosophy has received honorable mention for the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize, presented by Harvard University Press for an outstanding first book across the arts and sciences. The Art of Being will appear in the fall of 2018.