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Tufts University · English & Comparative Literature

9.5% of Tufts 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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Tufts University: 9.5% English & Comparative Literature at all 100 schools: 6.3% each other school in the comparison

Where English & Comparative Literature courses fall

10%Far left92–100

52%Left75–91

29%Center-left59–74

6%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

3%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

31 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

ENG 0188 · Slave Revolts and Maroons100

English & Comparative Literature

(Cross-listed as AFR 88). An examination of texts, traces and testimonies of African insurrection during the official period of "chattel slavery." A creative survey of "slave revolts" (or uprisings) as well as "maroonage" (the flight from…

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ENG 0189 · FANON and Black (Textual) Revolution100

English & Comparative Literature

(Cross-listed w/ CVS 179) Study of the complete works of Black Pan-Africanist psychiatrist and intellectual Frantz Fanon with some regard to those related Black textual revolutions taking root in his tradition across the world.…

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ENG 0089 · Feminism in 20th century U.S. Literature and Culture92

English & Comparative Literature

(Cross-listed as WGSS 89) How the postwar U.S. women's movement for equality, born of the mid-twentieth century antiwar and civil rights movements, made civic, legal and ethical challenges that are expressed in literature and film, in mass…

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Furthest-right subjects

ENG 0164 · Representing The Jew25

English & Comparative Literature

(Cross-listed as JS 164.) Advanced seminar on Jewish representations and self-representations in England and America, and in literature and popular culture. Mass culture and the Jews, anti-Semitism and philo-Semitism, Jewishness and…

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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
Tufts University · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	9.5	—	137	—
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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