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Wesleyan University · English & Comparative Literature

20.7% of Wesleyan 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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Wesleyan University: 20.7% English & Comparative Literature at all 100 schools: 6.3% each other school in the comparison

Where English & Comparative Literature courses fall

7%Far left92–100

22%Left75–91

66%Center-left59–74

5%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

59 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

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ENGL 245 · Introduction to Literary Theory: Suspicion, Ideology, Deconstruction100

English & Comparative Literature

There are ways of reading concerned with fixing, policing, and reifying assumed meanings, as well as the violent, normative structures that ground them, and there are ways of reading to the limits of what is (un)certain yet…

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ENGL 213 · Literature and Black Feminism: The Dramas of Black Capital96

English & Comparative Literature

This class explores Black women's fiction as a mode of critique and intervention into Black Americans' complicated relationships with social and economic capital in the wake of US chattel slavery. How do Black people negotiate the…

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ENGL 334 · Beyond Growth: Agrarian Visions92

English & Comparative Literature

The era of endless growth has reached a point of crisis. In the face of climate catastrophe and widening inequality, of the proliferation of pointless work and spiraling burnout, it has become increasingly common to question the idea that…

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Furthest right

None. Wesleyan University English & Comparative Literature has 59 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
Wesleyan University · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	20.7	—	285	—
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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