Spring 2020
| Course Number | Title | Course Description | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIT 089S | FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP) | Topics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff | Ziolkowski, Saskia |
| LIT 089S | FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP) | Topics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff | Vilches, Elvira |
| 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... | Sjol, Jordan |
| 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... | Fischer, Julien |
| 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... | Williams, Casey |
| 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... | Lukin, Vladimir |
| 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... | Vilches, Elvira |
| 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... | Sarfan, Austin |
| LIT 202S | INTRO TO PERFORMANCE STUDIES | Introduction to field of performance studies, with examples drawn from music, dance, theatre, performance art, protests, rituals, and everyday life.... | Kim, Hye Won |
| LIT 215 | ITALIAN CINEMA | Introduction course to Italian cinema including silent films, Neorealism, fascist productions, Commedia all'italiana and experimentalism. Reading... | Dainotto, Roberto |
| LIT 216S | 21ST CENT EAST EUROPEAN FILM | Examines the major thematic focus of East European filmmakers in the 21st century: their efforts to reconstruct and reassess the experience of the... | Duda, Paulina |
| LIT 217 | CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI CINEMA | A comparative approach to Israeli cinema, in the context of American and European cinemas. Cinema and nationalism. Cinematic representations of... | Rachkovsky, Tamar |
| 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 245 | DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY | A voyage through the three otherworldly places of Dante's philosophical poem (Hell, Purgatory, Paradise) whose transformation of human actions into... | Eisner, Martin |
| LIT 246 | FLAUBERT'S BRAIN NEUROHUMANITI | Consideration of `realist' fiction of Gustave Flaubert from social and cognitive neuroscience perspective. Investigation of implications of Flaubert'... | Jenson, Deborah |
| 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 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 285 | EXISTENTIALISM | Existentialism in philosophy and literature. Key themes will be existence, ethics, meaning of life, freedom, death, and writing. Texts may include... | Moi, Toril |
| LIT 290S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Dahiya, Annu |
| 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 301S | THEORY TODAY | Introduction to major areas of research in Global Cultural Studies with focus on specific theoretical issues of contemporary concern in various... | Bassiri, Nima |
| 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 325S | UNDERSTANDING MEDIATION | Examines experience as always mediated. How does text mediate expression, or language mediate subjectivity? How do images mediate power, or sounds... | Hadjioannou, Markos |
| LIT 337 | AMERICA FROM ABROAD: LIT & CIN | This course explores the portrayals of America, especially the United States, from authors and directors who are not American and who often have... | Ziolkowski, Saskia |
| LIT 341S | PERSPECTIVES ON THE AMAZON | The Amazon has been a source of awe to outsiders at least since the first Europeans navigated the Amazon River in 1542. While early explorers... | Furtado, Gustavo |
| LIT 362D | WHAT IS BEAUTY? | Exploration of Western theories of beauty from Plato to the present. What do we mean when we call something beautiful? Does beauty belong to an... | Engelstein, Stefani |
| LIT 362D | WHAT IS BEAUTY? | Exploration of Western theories of beauty from Plato to the present. What do we mean when we call something beautiful? Does beauty belong to an... | Goehler, Emma |
| LIT 362D | WHAT IS BEAUTY? | Exploration of Western theories of beauty from Plato to the present. What do we mean when we call something beautiful? Does beauty belong to an... | Goehler, Emma |
| 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 381S | POLITICAL CINEMA IN LATIN AMER | What counts as "political cinema"? What are the possible relations between cinema and politics, particularly in Latin America? How can cinema not... | Furtado, Gustavo |
| LIT 382S | FICTIONS THAT MARK THE MOMENT | Course is an engagement with novels from spectacular moments of history, an imagination of the future, a response to narrative conventions of realism... | Jaji, Tsitsi |
| LIT 390 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Lubiano, Wahneema |
| LIT 390S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Hansen, Mark |
| LIT 390S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Reilly, Catherine |
| LIT 390S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Ku, Ryan |
| LIT 390S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary by semester. Instructor: Staff | Serrano, Silvia |
| LIT 410S | CONTEMPORARY FRENCH FICTION | Novels published in France during the past decade. Fashions, fads, new trends, succès de scandale, and prize winners. Instructor: Staff | Garreta, Anne |
| LIT 438S | TECHNO-ORIENTALISM | Course examines global Science Fiction genres in literature, film, and social media as case studies to understand broad historical and social... | Kwon, Nayoung |
| 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 450S | FOUCAULT IN SLOW MOTION | Michel Foucault s work has been a powerful influence shaping debates in the humanities and social sciences around the world. Intensive study of key... | Chow, Rey |
| LIT 483 | WHAT MACHIAVELLI REALLY SAYS | Everyone knows what Machiavellian means, but what does Machiavelli really say? Reading his classical political texts, "The Prince," the "Discourses... | Eisner, Martin |
| 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.... | Parisi, Luciana |
| LIT 521S | HIST/PHIL PERSPECT ON SCIENCE | An integrated introduction to the nature of science and scientific change, and its impact on society. Counts as elective for the Science &... | Brading, Katherine |
| LIT 522 | ECO-MEDIA | This course explores film, photography, online media, museum and artistic productions about the contemporary planetary ecological crisis. Visual... | Litzinger, Ralph |
| LIT 525S | ART AS WORK | Interdisciplinary seminar on work, working identities, and workplace performances in the arts. Enrolled graduates and advanced undergraduates review... | Wilbur, Sarah |
| LIT 571 | EAST ASIAN CULTURAL ST | East Asia as a historical and geographical category of knowledge emerging within the various processes of global movements (imperialism, colonialism... | Ching, Leo |
| LIT 582 | DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY | A voyage through the three otherworldly places of Dante's philosophical poem (Hell, Purgatory, Paradise) whose transformation of human actions into... | Eisner, Martin |
| LIT 590S | SP TOP IN LITERATURE | Special topics in Literature. Instructor: Staff | Bassiri, Nima |
| LIT 590S | SP TOP IN LITERATURE | Special topics in Literature. Instructor: Staff | Dainotto, Roberto |
| LIT 590S | SP TOP IN LITERATURE | Special topics in Literature. Instructor: Staff | Werlin, Julianne |
| LIT 610S | BASIC CONCEPTS IN CINEMA | Review of theory, methodology, and debates in study of film under three rubrics: mode of production or industry; apparatus or technologies of... | Mottahedeh, Negar |
| LIT 632 | NATIONAL CINEMAS | Films, documentaries, television series, and soap operas produced in mainland China in the post-Mao era. Topics include the history and aesthetics of... | Hong, Guo-Juin |
| 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 | Mignolo, Walter |
| LIT 690S | SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE | Topics vary each semester. Instructor: Staff | Parisi, Luciana |
| LIT 690S-8 | SP TOP-PARADIGMS MOD THOUGHT | 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 743 | WHAT MACHIAVELLI REALLY SAYS | Everyone knows what Machiavellian means, but what does Machiavelli really say? Reading his classical political texts "The Prince," the "Discourses... | Eisner, Martin |
| 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... | Khanna, Ranjana |
| 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... | Wilson, Ara |
| 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 890S | SEMINARS IN LIT (TOPICS) | Contents and methods vary with instructors and from semester to semester. Instructor: Staff | Reilly, Catherine |
| LIT 890S | SEMINARS IN LIT (TOPICS) | Contents and methods vary with instructors and from semester to semester. Instructor: Staff | Armstrong, Nancy |
| LIT 890S | SEMINARS IN LIT (TOPICS) | Contents and methods vary with instructors and from semester to semester. Instructor: Staff | Pourciau, Sarah |