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American University · English & Comparative Literature

6.4% of American University's English & Comparative Literature course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' English & Comparative Literature departments, it is 6.3%.

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American University: 6.4% English & Comparative Literature at all 100 schools: 6.3% each other school in the comparison

Where English & Comparative Literature courses fall

0%Far left92–100

56%Left75–91

44%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

9 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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Framing Subject

Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.

Furthest-left subjects

LIT 252 · Survey of Literary Theory83

English & Comparative Literature

A survey of theoretical approaches to literature, covering major schools and movements. The course introduces a variety of critical methods, including New Criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, feminism, Marxism, etc.

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LIT 319 · Imagined Bodies: Historicizing Race and Gender83

English & Comparative Literature

This course studies the early modern body as a site where ideologies of property, gender, race, and class operate to (re)organize society in the anglophone Atlantic world. By reading critical theory, novels, and other primary source…

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LIT 338 · Topics in Literature and Empire83

English & Comparative Literature

Topics vary by section. Examines how historically specific modes of imperial practice have been influenced, supported, and challenged by literary culture. Focusing on particular historical periods and national-imperial traditions, the…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. American University English & Comparative Literature has 9 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

Why this number, in plain words

Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.

Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.

Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.

Details: exact rows, definitions and method

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
American University · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	6.4	—	94	—
English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	6.3	6.0 – 6.7	19,071	—

Formula: 100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
Interval: Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
Model / prompt / snapshot: gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats: Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.

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