About the Situation of the Discipline of Comparative Literature and Neighboring Fields in the Humanities Today

ABSTRACT In the article, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek discusses the history of the discipline of comparative literature in the context of other fields in the humanities such as the history of literature, world literatures, cultural studies, comparative cultural studies, and digital humanities. Tötösy de Zepetnek argues that comparative literature as a discipline is experiencing a revival in some parts of the world outside of Europe and Anglophone scholarship and that this suggests a corrective measure regarding the historical Euro-US-American hegemony of the discipline. Tötösy de Zepetnek’s principal argument is that the comparative and contextual approach practiced in interdisciplinarity, employing new media technology, and following tenets of comparative cultural studies could achieve the social relevance of the humanities today.