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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

11%Far left92–100

50%Left75–91

32%Center-left59–74

2%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

3%Right9–25

3%Far right0–8

101 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.

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest-left subjects

ENGL 213 · Literature and Black Feminism: The Dramas of Black Capital100

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 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 391 · Unsovereign Elements, Caribbean Poetics100

English & Comparative Literature

This course aims to study and question sovereignty, begin to theorize "unsovereignty," and stake out what may be meant by "anticolonial imagination" in literary and other aesthetic forms, as well in the theories of history that it arranges…

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Furthest-right subjects

ENGL 353 · Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Medieval Literature0

English & Comparative Literature

Why do white supremacists celebrate the European Middle Ages as a lost era of racial and religious purity? This course approaches that question by considering the emergence of medieval ideas of race, ethnicity, and religious difference. We…

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ENGL 383 · Fascism and American Literature4

English & Comparative Literature

American writers were deeply engaged by the rise of 20th-century European fascism. A number of American writers took part in a generational critique of liberal democracy and thus played a role in establishing the intellectual context for…

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ENGL 350 · The Law, the Citizen, and the Literary and Cinematic Imaginations8

English & Comparative Literature

In this course, we will study several major legal events that highlight the contradictions and injustices in the history of U.S. citizenship and the ways this history has been reimagined in literature and cinema. Among the topics discussed…

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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

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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