As a discipline, Comparative Literature has always been peculiar. ?At the same time that the field has provided openings to a multiplicity of literary cultures, it has also continued to participate in the solidification of a world literary system in which the collective cultures of ?the West? have functioned as the center, the interpreter, and the point of reference for all others.? In order to overcome the Eurocentrism that has traditionally characterized the discipline, the Comparative Literature major attempts to represent Comparative Literature?s expanding textual universe, with novel comparative/ interdisciplinary constellations emerging frequently. ??