Why Comparative Literature? A session for secondary school teachers

Do you teach English, Modern Languages or any other Humanities subject? Do you want to enrich your current teaching practice? The Comparative Literature and Culture department at QMUL would like to invite you to an afternoon of conversation and discussion where you’ll learn about Comparative Literature’s unique approach to the study of literature and culture.

Our goal is to give our attendees a chance to experience for themselves the kinds of questions that Comparative Literature opens up for humanities students. We hope to inspire teachers to employ similar approaches in their own pedagogies, and to inform them about our discipline so they can recommend a degree in Comparative Literature to students keen to study literatures and cultures from around the world at university, but who might not know that it is possible to do so.

The afternoon will be organised around three interactive sessions designed to give attendees a taste of what Comparative Literature is, how it works and what types of new approaches and dialogues it enables. Teachers will have the chance to participate in a Comparative Literature workshop and the opportunity to speak to some of our current students and learn about their experience of studying Comparative Literature.