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Middlebury College · English & Comparative Literature

26.8% of Middlebury College'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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Middlebury College: 26.8% 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

67%Left75–91

33%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

18 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

CMLT 0270 · Reading Postcolonial and Indigenous Literature90

English & Comparative Literature

European colonialism and racial capitalism have radically and violently transformed people's lives across the globe. The effects of racial capitalism continue to be felt, and arguably imperialism continues but in other forms. How have…

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ENGL 0257 · Black Aesthetics in the Wake of Slavery88

English & Comparative Literature

One of the most powerful ways in which contemporary Black writers and visual artists have examined the afterlives of slavery has been to question the authority of official documents such as ships' ledgers, legal manuscripts, newspaper…

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ENGL 0270 · Reading Postcolonial and Indigenous Literature88

English & Comparative Literature

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Middlebury College English & Comparative Literature has 18 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
Middlebury College · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	26.8	—	41	—
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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