English & Comparative Literature
This course offers an introduction to postcolonial literature and theory through a variety of geo-political contexts, including the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific.
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Tulane University · English & Comparative Literature
2.5% of Tulane University's English & Comparative Literature course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' English & Comparative Literature departments, it is 6.3%.
0%35%
Where English & Comparative Literature courses fall
0%Far left92–100
50%Left75–91
50%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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
English & Comparative Literature
Study of Black literature in conjunction with political movements and events. Topics may include anti-slavery reform, suffragism, the civil rights movement, Black Lives Matter, and more. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1010 , 1020 or 1011 .
English & Comparative Literature
An examination of the major projects of feminist literary theory: uncovering or rediscovering women's literature; engaging in feminist re-readings of canonical texts; describing a feminist poetics. Attention to the history of feminist…
Furthest-right subjects
None. Tulane University English & Comparative Literature has 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tulane University · English & Comparative Literature | bias_left_share | 2.5 | — | 119 | — |
| 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.