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0% of Vanderbilt 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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Vanderbilt University: 0% 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

23%Left75–91

54%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

15%Right9–25

8%Far right0–8

13 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

ENGL3742 · Feminist Theory83

English & Comparative Literature

An introduction to feminist theory. Topics include cross-cultural gender identities; the development of "masculinity" and "femininity"; racial, ethnic, class, and national differences; sexual orientations; the function of ideology;…

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ENGL3742W · Feminist Theory83

English & Comparative Literature

An introduction to feminist theory. Topics include cross-cultural gender identities; the development of "masculinity" and "femininity"; racial, ethnic, class, and national differences; sexual orientations; the function of ideology;…

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ENGL3670 · Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature80

English & Comparative Literature

Literature exploring European colonialism and its aftermath from the eighteenth century to the present: language, gender, and agency in the colonial encounter; anti-colonial resistance movements; and postcolonial cultures. Topics may vary;…

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Furthest-right subjects

ENGL2255 · Rise of the American Novel0

English & Comparative Literature

Early foundations of the American novel through the post-Civil War period. How authors like Lydia Maria Child and Charles Brockden Brown invented genres such as American Gothic and Historical Romance and addressed crises like Indian Removal…

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ENGL2320 · Southern Literature17

English & Comparative Literature

The works of Southern writers from Captain Smith to the present. Topics such as the Plantation Myth, slavery and civil war, Agrarianism, and "post-southernism." Authors may include Poe, Twain, Cable, Faulkner, Welty, Percy, Wright. [3] (HCA)

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ENGL2251 · Future Bodies: Dystopian Fiction20

English & Comparative Literature

What makes a body human, and what rights do human bodies have? Examining these questions in novels like The Handmaid’s Tale, Never Let Me Go, and The Hunger Games. Why fiction matters to bodies now and in the future. [3] (HCA) (CORE A, C) (LE HFA)

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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
Vanderbilt University · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	0	—	166	—
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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