If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard…

I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find…

— Lev Grossman

Sometimes you have Harvard undergraduates who stun you with the depth of their knowledge. That is why it is great to be at a…

— Athanasios Orphanides

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

— Rachel Weisz

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

— Jodie Foster

Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so…

— Carrie Coon

The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.

— Yehuda Amichai

English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature…

— Paula Gunn Allen

I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a…

— William T. Vollmann

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he…

— Nicolas Cage

I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that…

— Judith Butler

I went to Princeton to major in comparative literature. I never went to film school, but I studied storytelling across mediums - poems, literature,…

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's possible for…

— Wole Soyinka

“Professor of Comparative Literature, B.A. Harvard. Ph.D. Sorbonne, Oxford. Somewhere certificates pasted in full-of-truth blue book. At points we diverge, essential points in fact.…

— John Edgar Wideman

Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was…

— Winston Churchill