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Dartmouth College · English & Comparative Literature

18.1% of Dartmouth 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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Dartmouth College: 18.1% English & Comparative Literature at all 100 schools: 6.3% each other school in the comparison

Where English & Comparative Literature courses fall

5%Far left92–100
43%Left75–91
44%Center-left59–74
4%Center42–58
1%Center-right26–41
3%Right9–25
1%Far right0–8
80 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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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 74.06 · Frantz Fanon: Colonial War and Mental97

English & Comparative Literature

Disorders This course is an introduction to postcolonial theory through an exploration of the writings of Frantz Fanon, a Martiniquan psychiatrist and anticolonial thinker, who wrote extensively on the political and psychical impact of…

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ENGL 53.38 · Narratives of Un-belonging: Bad Asians,94

English & Comparative Literature

Queer Texts What makes an Asian/American “bad” and what makes a text “queer”? How does one shed light and offer insight on the other? How might the “bad” and the “queer” name the refusal and failure to assimilate and align oneself with…

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ENGL 48 · Critical Issues in Postcolonial Studies92

English & Comparative Literature

This course charts one genealogy of postcolonial theory as it developed in the Anglo-American academy in the 1980s. Drawing on the two internationalist traditions of the late nineteenth and twentieth century, Marxism and Psychoanalysis,…

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Furthest-right subjects

ENGL 62.05 · The Horrors of Survival: American8

English & Comparative Literature

Literatures of Modernity There is a significant period of modernization in US culture from about 1850-1920—a decade before the Civil War to the aftermath of World War I, encompassing Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, the devastating…

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COLT 57.09 · How to Be a Fascist10

English & Comparative Literature

How do people become fascists? How do they rise to power? Why did people support fascism? We will focus initially on the original model for fascist dictatorships, that is Italian fascism, but we will also have in-class presentations by…

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ENGL 52.21 · Popular Fiction and the Culture of17

English & Comparative Literature

Empire The nineteenth century saw an explosion in the diversity and commercial potential of popular fiction. Detective fiction, science fiction, and the Gothic novel are a few of the genres that came into their own during this period,…

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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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Dartmouth College · English & Comparative Literaturebias_left_share18.1—215—
English & Comparative Literaturebias_left_share6.36.0 – 6.719,071—
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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