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Massachusetts Institute of Technology · English & Comparative Literature

1.3% of Massachusetts Institute of Technology'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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1.3% 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

14%Left75–91

71%Center-left59–74

14%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

7 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

· Power and Culture: Utopias and Dystopias in Spain78

English & Comparative Literature

instructor Studies how new literary, artistic and musical forms have emerged in response to tensions and contradictions in Hispanic culture, from the eighth century to the present. Examines distinctively Hispanic artistic movements and…

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· Afrofuturism, Magical Realism, and Other Otherwise67

English & Comparative Literature

Examines Afrofuturism, magical realism, and other forms of the fantastic in literary texts, lm, and other media. Through close reading and attention to historical, cultural, and sociopolitical context, students consider how these works…

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· How We Got to Hamilton67

English & Comparative Literature

Traces the evolution of the American musical from minstrelsy to Hamilton. Equips students with terms, tools, and techniques to enrich their analysis of how individual songs, scenes, and dances — as well as whole shows — are structured.…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Massachusetts Institute of Technology English & Comparative Literature has 6 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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	1.3	—	160	—
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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