Spring 2017
Course Number | Title | Course Description | Instructor |
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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... | Darity, William |
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 111 | INTRO ARTS OF THE MOVING IMAGE | Examination of critical concepts in arts of the moving image from various perspectives. Spanning both traditional cinema and emergent fields.... | Kaul, Shambhavi |
LIT 190 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Introduction to the study of literature and other forms of cultural expression, such as film. Different introductory approaches will be used in each... | Dahiya, Annu |
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... | Shareef, Shahrazad |
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... | Rubinstein, Yair |
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... | Gonzalez, Jaime |
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... | Carpenter, Bennett |
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... | Cunningham, Alex |
LIT 252 | FAIRY TALES: GRIMMS TO DISNEY | German fairy tales of the Romantic era, including both the "literary fairy tales" by known authors and the "folk fairy tales" commonly deemed... | Norberg, Jakob |
LIT 263S | SCREENING THE HOLOCAUST | Probes representations of the Jewish Holocaust in World Cinema. Explores divergent filmic strategies employed to represent what is commonly deemed as... | Ginsburg, Shai |
LIT 274 | IMAGINING EUROPE | Investigation of defining debates on European culture and the fiction which shapes them. In collaboration with Nasher Museum. Focus on literature and... | Solterer, Helen |
LIT 281 | BEAT GENERATION SPIRITUALITY | Places Beat Generation spirituality in its contexts by study of sources and texts that influenced individual figures, specifically, the reading,... | Need, David |
LIT 286 | GERMAN HISTORY THROUGH FILM | Interdisciplinary seminar at intersection of German Studies and History, taught by scholars from both disciplines. Explores ways in which films shape... | Gellen, Kata |
LIT 290S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Sullivan, Mecca |
LIT 290S-1 | INTERNATL LIT/CULTURE (TOP) | Seminar version of Literature 290 | Naderi, Navid |
LIT 290S-1 | INTERNATL LIT/CULTURE (TOP) | Seminar version of Literature 290 | Gould, Amanda Starling |
LIT 301S | THEORY TODAY | Introduction to major areas of research in Global Cultural Studies with focus on specific theoretical issues of contemporary concern in various... | Chow, Rey |
LIT 316S | FILM THEORY | Recent critical developments in Marxist aesthetics, structuralism, semiotics of the image, feminist film theory. History and theory of film... | Hadjioannou, Markos |
LIT 370S | RUSSIAN FICTION/FILM | Russia's turbulent history recounted through its literature and film. Short works by Russia's most famous authors (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov) as... | Apollonio, Carol |
LIT 380 | MARXISM AND SOCIETY | Introduction to Marx's core concepts, such as alienation, commodity, and revolution. Includes examination of Marx's own major historical &... | Hardt, Michael |
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 | Hayles, N. |
LIT 390 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Dainotto, Roberto |
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 | Staff, Departmental |
LIT 390S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Lamm, Kimberly |
LIT 390S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Lamm, Kimberly |
LIT 390S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Grosz, Elizabeth |
LIT 390S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Furtado, Gustavo |
LIT 390S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Viego, Antonio |
LIT 390S-4 | SP TOP IN FILM | Close study of a major genre, period, or director. Instructor: Staff | Odendahl-James, Jules |
LIT 430 | GENDER AND THE LAW | Examination of issues at the intersection of gender and law through a number of different theoretical lenses. Analyzes policy problems with gender... | Bartlett, Katharine |
LIT 475S | QUEER THEORY | A seminar designed specifically for advanced study in sexuality and gender. Contextualizes queer theory as a distinct analytic tradition by paying... | Wiegman, Robyn |
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.... | Milian, Claudia |
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 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... | Bell, David |
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 590S | SP TOP IN LITERATURE | Special topics in Literature. Instructor: Staff | Garreta, Anne |
LIT 590S | SP TOP IN LITERATURE | Special topics in Literature. Instructor: Staff | Nelson, Diane |
LIT 590S | SP TOP IN LITERATURE | Special topics in Literature. Instructor: Staff | Stan, Corina |
LIT 690 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Jameson, Fredric |
LIT 690-8 | PARADIGMS MODERN THOUGHT (TOP) | Specialized study of the work of individual thinkers who have modified our conceptions of human reality and social and cultural history, with special... | Hardt, Michael |
LIT 690S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary each semester. Instructor: Staff | Viego, Antonio |
LIT 717S | ART/DEMOCRACY/MADRID/BARCELON | Beyond the political poster and the large mural, was there a painterly art in the pre-digital age that found a fitting place on the street and the... | Rodríguez García, José María |
LIT 760S | MAJOR FIGURES/FEMINIST THOUGHT | An examination of the thought of some of the significant figures in history who have been influential in the evolution of feminist thought and theory... | Grosz, Elizabeth |
LIT 761S | FOUNDATIONS IN FEMINIST THEORY | Required for all students pursuing the graduate certificate in Women's Studies, this course serves as an in-depth introduction to the various... | Wald, Priscilla |
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 890S | SEMINARS IN LIT (TOPICS) | Contents and methods vary with instructors and from semester to semester. Instructor: Staff | Wiegman, Robyn |