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Washington and Lee University · English & Comparative Literature

3.7% of Washington and Lee 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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Washington and Lee University: 3.7% 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

40%Left75–91

33%Center-left59–74

20%Center42–58

7%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

15 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

ENGL 264 · The Body Electric: Queer Theory, Film, and Text83

English & Comparative Literature

WGSS 264 FDR: HL Literature Distribution Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. Queerness is inextricable from visual and textual representation as production and as reception. This course is an introduction to the nexus of queer…

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ENGL 315 · Arthurian Bodies, Desires, and Affects83

English & Comparative Literature

FDR: HL Literature Distribution Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. During the medieval and early modern periods, King Arthur and his court served as the…

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ENGL 376 · Postcolonial Literature and Theory83

English & Comparative Literature

FDR: HL Literature Distribution Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. This course is an introduction to some of the key concepts and debates in postcolonial…

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Furthest-right subjects

ENGL 257 · Business in American Literature and Film28

English & Comparative Literature

FDR: HL Literature Distribution Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. In his 1776 book The Wealth of Nations , Adam Smith tells a powerful story of the free market as a way to organize our political and economic lives, a story…

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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
Washington and Lee University · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	3.7	—	107	—
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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