Dr Patricia Novillo-Corval‡n, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature: The study of Comparative and World Literature is of extreme relevance in an increasingly multicultural and globalised world. We offer degree programmes in both Comparative
and World Literature, giving students the opportunity to embrace a wider range of writers, cultures and traditions. We study literature from all corners of the world and our students are not required to bring a foreign language as all the modules are taught in English translation - although we do encourage students to learn a language while doing their degree. 

Gillian Andrews, student in Comparative Literature with a Year Abroad: I chose to study at Kent because it had really high student satisfaction results in the National Student Survey, because Canterbury is a lovely town and because it had a Comparative Literature department. The best part of my course so far has definitely been the professors. Comparative Literature is quite a small department and so everyone knows you. They are all very kind and very helpful. 

Dr Patricia Novillo-Corval‡n: We engage in most of reading, so we cultivate a form of reading that pays attention to cultural differences but also to similarities and links between writers world wide. 

Gillian Andrews: In the first year of the Comparative Literature degree at Kent you are introduced to analysis skills, you start looking at different texts from different cultures. In the second year, that builds into more of a secondary analysis. They teach you to examine critical perspectives and apply them to what you are studying. In your final year, third or fourth year, you really get to expand into what you care about, what you want to study because you get to do a dissertation.

Dr Patricia Novillo-Corval‡n: Our green and beautiful campus is set in Canterbury, a historic and very vibrant city with a very lively cultural life. Canterbury is also strategically located just one hour by train to London and two hours on the Euro Star to Paris, which makes Canterbury the gateway to Europe.

Gillian Andrews: In the third year I was on a year abroad,  which I really enjoyed. I was in Pennsylvania in America. 

Dr Patricia Novillo-Corval‡n: Our Comparative and World Literature programmes offer students the year abroad option. This is an enormous opportunity for students which gives intercultural awareness.

Gillian Andrews: I think there is a lot of things you can do with a Comparative Literature degree. It gives you a lot of transferrable skills, a lot of writing skills and communication skills, through presentations, that can apply to most job fields. I think a lot of people go into publishing or writing.

Dr Patricia Novillo-Corval‡n: Comparative and World Lliterature is a friendly, vibrant and research intensive department that will make all students feel welcome. 

Gillian Andrews: I think you should come to Kent because Kent has a fantastic campus in a fantastic town. In my experience all the professors are caring and helpful and the courses are well put together and they have a really huge range of options that I think can suit anyone.