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New York University · English & Comparative Literature

2.7% of New York 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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New York University: 2.7% 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

25%Left75–91

67%Center-left59–74

8%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

12 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-UA 780 · Intro to Postcolonial Studies83

English & Comparative Literature

This course offers an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Postcolonial Studies, examining the social, cultural, political, and literary legacies of colonialism and imperialism. Through an exploration of key texts, theories, and…

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ENGL-UA 9160S · Global Literature and Times of Perpetual War83

English & Comparative Literature

This course explores how literary and cultural works address the state of perpetual war of the historical present. Focusing on Third World decolonisation contexts, we will consider how writers and artists interrogate the gender, racial, and…

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COLIT-UA 249 · Introduction to Theory-German Media Theory: On Films, Filters, and Fascism75

English & Comparative Literature

Focuses on crucial theoretical developments in German literary and philosophical discourses. Introduces students to contemporary theoretical issues at the forefront of academic debate and seeks to give students a grounding in the origins of…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. New York University English & Comparative Literature has 11 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
New York University · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	2.7	—	74	—
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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