Fall 2018
Course Number | Title | Course Description | Instructor |
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LIT 089S | FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP) | Topics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff | Apollonio, Carol |
LIT 089S | FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP) | Topics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff | Hardt, Michael |
LIT 089S | FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP) | Topics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff | Vilches, Elvira |
LIT 089S | FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP) | Topics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff | Gellen, Kata |
LIT 089S | FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP) | Topics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff | Furtado, Gustavo |
LIT 089S | FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP) | Topics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff | Aidoo, Lamonte |
LIT 102 | INTRO AFR-AMER STUDIES | A range of disciplinary perspectives on key topics in African American Studies: slavery and abolitionism, theories of race and racism, gender and... | Cobb, Jasmine |
LIT 110 | INTRO TO FILM STUDIES | Basic film theory and history of motion picture technology. Introduction to experimental, documentary, and narrative forms of Third World, European,... | McCarty, Lisa |
LIT 190S | SP TOPICS:INTRO TO LITERATURE | Introduction to the study of literature and other forms of cultural expression, such as film. Different introductory approaches will be used in each... | Karklina, Anastasia |
LIT 190S | SP TOPICS:INTRO TO LITERATURE | Introduction to the study of literature and other forms of cultural expression, such as film. Different introductory approaches will be used in each... | Staff, Departmental |
LIT 190S | SP TOPICS:INTRO TO LITERATURE | Introduction to the study of literature and other forms of cultural expression, such as film. Different introductory approaches will be used in each... | Messina, Karen |
LIT 198FS | PERFORMING SCIENCE | Combines a historical survey of science-themed plays with an examination of sci+arts initiatives such as the University of Western Australia s... | Odendahl-James, Jules |
LIT 199 | LGBTQ/QUEER CINEMA | This class investigates LGBTQ identities, communities and relationships pre, post, and during the Stonewall era through cinema, television, and new... | POLISH, DIANA |
LIT 201 | INTRO GLOBAL CULTURAL STUDIES | Introductory course for the Literature Major in Global Cultural Studies. Examines how the work of the humanities provides conceptual and analytic... | Wiegman, Robyn |
LIT 205 | THE PROBLEM OF LOVE | Love causes problems. It can inspire passion or madness; foster alliances, destroy friendships, provoke war, broker peace. It impacts communities and... | Eisner, Martin |
LIT 211 | INDIAN CINEMA | Sources of vitality in twentieth-century Indian cinema. The resilience of popular cinema in the face of Hollywood. Narrative and non-narrative... | Khanna, Satendra |
LIT 214 | MODERN CHINESE CINEMA | Films, documentaries, television series, and soap operas produced in Mainland China in the post-Mao era, modern and contemporary Taiwan, and Hong... | Zhang, Ning |
LIT 214 | MODERN CHINESE CINEMA | Films, documentaries, television series, and soap operas produced in Mainland China in the post-Mao era, modern and contemporary Taiwan, and Hong... | Zhang, Ning |
LIT 220 | FILM GENRES | A historical survey of motion picture genre as a stylistic and narrative device, including comedy, horror, the musical, the western, and science... | Sudak, Jason |
LIT 222 | PERFORMANCE ART HISTORY/THEORY | Performance Art History and Theory explores cultural experimentation, theoretical strategies, and ideological aims of performance art internationally... | Stiles, Kristine |
LIT 225 | SCREENING COLD WAR ESPIONAGE | When the Cold War erupted in the wake of World War II, filmmakers were poised to screen it as propaganda, entertainment (thriller, horror, science... | Holmgren, Beth |
LIT 239S | KOREAN LIT/CULT IN TRANSLATN | Critical examination of variable topics in Korean literature. Texts contextualized in global and local histories. Boundaries of the nation and its... | Kwon, Nayoung |
LIT 243 | INTRO TO LATINO/A STUDIES | Introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Latino/a Studies, and how it reconfigures the study of the United States and the Americas. Considers... | Rizki, Cole |
LIT 244 | MODERN EUROPEAN SHORT FICTION | Comprehensive examination of several important works of modern European short fiction by authors such as Kafka, Woolf, Svevo, Sartre, Joyce, Proust,... | Ziolkowski, Saskia |
LIT 248S | CHINESE LIT/CULT IN TRANSLATN | The transmutation of Chinese culture and literature from the perspective of translation conceived as a broad range of literary and cultural... | Zhang, Ning |
LIT 260S | FREUD AND SEXUALITY | Introduction to central concepts in Sigmund Freud's writings, focusing mainly on his understanding of sexuality, stages of child's development... | Grosz, Elizabeth |
LIT 262 | FRENCH LOVE STORY | A history of the representation and social structuring of affective relationships in France, through close analysis of French novels and theory.... | Longino, Michele |
LIT 276S | ISLAM AND STATE | Comparative study of the novels and non-fiction of Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk as an introduction into the politics of World Literature. Addresses... | Göknar, Erdag |
LIT 279S | DOCUMENTARY POETRY | Investigates written and oral poetry as a mode of documentary storytelling. Engage with contemporary and historical poetry examining real-life,... | Shelton Green, Jacqueline |
LIT 280 | MARX, NIETZSCHE, FREUD | A critical examination and assessment of the thought of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud: revolutionary theory and practice; nihilism and the challenge of... | Pickford, Henry |
LIT 290S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Ku, Ryan |
LIT 295S | SEX WORK:POLITICS OF SXL LABOR | Sex work from the perspective of the labor and the purchase. Controversies over questions of gender and power, consent and coercion, sexual practices... | Weeks, Kathi |
LIT 302S | HASHTAGS MEMES, DIGITAL TRIBES | Tracks digital life and creative expression of groups online in a close study of images, captions and hyperlinked tags. Examines rituals, symbols and... | Mottahedeh, Negar |
LIT 320S | SOCIAL MOVEMENTS/SOCIAL MEDIA | Examines uses and abuses of social media by social movements. Interested in a broader historical study of mediating technologies and oppositional... | Mottahedeh, Negar |
LIT 361S | GLOBAL APPLE | Examination of the Apple Corporation s development from a Silicon Valley garage operation to a company with unprecedented global reach; the Cult of... | Litzinger, Ralph |
LIT 369 | GERMANY CONFRONTS HOLOCAUST | The ways in which official German culture comes to terms with its Nazi past. Background reading in history and politics; primary focus on films,... | Dolan, Kristen |
LIT 390 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Lubiano, Wahneema |
LIT 390 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Jenson, Deborah |
LIT 390S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Bassiri, Nima |
LIT 390S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Staff, Departmental |
LIT 390S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Donahue, Evan |
LIT 390S-2 | SP TOP LIT MOVEMENTS | Historical, theoretical, and/or formal approaches to literary movements in different periods and cultures. Instructor: Staff | Reilly, Catherine |
LIT 390S-3 | SP TOP INDIVID AUTHORS | Seminar version of Literature 154. Biographic, historical, and/or stylistic approaches to one or two individual authors, as well as critical debates... | McInnis, Jarvis |
LIT 390S-4 | SP TOP IN FILM | Close study of a major genre, period, or director. Instructor: Staff | Chow, Rey |
LIT 440S | GAMES AND CULTURE | Examines analog and computer games from a cultural perspective. Explores how prevailing culture and values affect game design, popularity, and... | Ching, Leo |
LIT 489S | SCREENING EUROPE | Course debates identification of Europe as a political, historical and social entity from the standpoint of cinema. Provides students with an... | Saliot, Anne-Gaelle |
LIT 490S-1 | SP TOP THEORY | An advanced investigation of major concepts and principles in literary and/or cultural theory. Contents and methods vary with instructors.... | Wiegman, Robyn |
LIT 490S-2 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Special Topics in Literature. Instructor: Staff | Jenson, Deborah |
LIT 510 | CITIZEN GODARD | This course explores the complex interactions of poetics and politics in the films of Jean-Luc Godard, from the French New Wave, through the... | Saliot, Anne-Gaelle |
LIT 512S | PERFORM GENDER/EXHIBIT RACE | Studying intersections of race/gender in art since 1945 with host of visual subjects and methodological strategies. Examines works by e.g. Barkley L... | Powell, Richard |
LIT 540S | METHODS THEORIES ROMANCE STDS | Provides students in any PhD track of the department of Romance Studies with fundamental training in both general literary theory and in the specific... | Jenson, Deborah |
LIT 544S | MEMORY/DOC CINEMA LATIN AMER | Course focuses on work of several leading Latin American filmmakers from Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Cuba. Explores problems such as construction... | Furtado, Gustavo |
LIT 557 | CULTURAL MEMORY | Investigates invention, reconfiguration, and use of literary fictions over time. Examines major theoretical models: Assmann on cultural memory;... | Solterer, Helen |
LIT 590S | SP TOP IN LITERATURE | Special topics in Literature. Instructor: Staff | Reilly, Catherine |
LIT 590S | SP TOP IN LITERATURE | Special topics in Literature. Instructor: Staff | Ziolkowski, Saskia |
LIT 681S | WITTGENSTEIN AND LIT THEORY | Key questions in literary theory reconsidered from the point of view of ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin, Cavell). Topics... | Moi, Toril |
LIT 690 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Jameson, Fredric |
LIT 690S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary each semester. Instructor: Staff | Hansen, Mark |
LIT 690S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary each semester. Instructor: Staff | Bassiri, Nima |
LIT 690S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary each semester. Instructor: Staff | Mignolo, Walter |
LIT 690S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary each semester. Instructor: Staff | Staff, Departmental |
LIT 710S | INTRO TO LYRIC/LIT THEORY | Do poetry readers listen mainly to man speaking to man (Wordsworth), such that the conversation of humankind provides a model for a community of... | Rodríguez García, José María |
LIT 715 | CULTURAL MEMORY | Investigates invention, reconfiguration, and use of literary fictions over time. Examines major theoretical models: Assmann on cultural memory;... | Solterer, Helen |
LIT 780S | TEACHING RACE, TEACHING GENDER | Interdisciplinary analyses of the problematics of teaching about social hierarchies, especially those of race, class, and gender. Curricular content... | Lubiano, Wahneema |
LIT 822S | WRITING IS THINKING | This course aims to teach graduate students at any level, from first-year students to dissertation writers, how to write well and with enjoyment, and... | Moi, Toril |
LIT 850S | DELEUZE: CINEMA & PHILOSOPHY | Examination of Gilles Deleuze s books: CINEMA 1 and CINEMA 2. Exploration of his concepts of the movement-image and the time-image with reference... | Hadjioannou, Markos |
LIT 890S | SEMINARS IN LIT (TOPICS) | Contents and methods vary with instructors and from semester to semester. Instructor: Staff | Mitchell, Robert |