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Harvard University · English & Comparative Literature

11.7% of Harvard 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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Harvard University: 11.7% 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

47%Left75–91

47%Center-left59–74

5%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

19 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

COMPLIT 171 · Counter-Imperialism and Asian-African Literatures87

English & Comparative Literature

The first Asia-Africa conference of newly independent states (held in Indonesia, in 1955) was once hailed by contemporary observers as an event as significant as the European renaissance in global importance. It inspired a sequence of…

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ENGLISH 187ND · Indigenous Literatures of the Other-than-Human85

English & Comparative Literature

"Indians are an invention," declares an unnamed hunter in Gerald Vizenor's (White Earth Ojibwe) 1978 novel, Bearheart. The hunter's point, as Vizenor has explained in interviews and elsewhere, is not that Indigenous peoples don't exist, but…

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COMPLIT 112X · Global Sci-Fi84

English & Comparative Literature

How does modern Sinophone sci-fi reveal the "dark side" of China's rise to power? How does Sinophone speculative fiction and its transmediated afterlives chart a reparative vision in the face of ongoing ecological and political crises? How…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Harvard University English & Comparative Literature has 18 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
Harvard University · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	11.7	—	120	—
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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