Courses - current academic year

Title Instructor
What is Literature? José David Saldívar COMPLIT 101
Shakespeare and Performance in a Global Context Patricia Parker COMPLIT 10N
Introduction to Comparative Queer Literary Studies Petra Dierkes-Thrun COMPLIT 110/310
Clone of German Capstone: Reading Franz Kafka Amir Eshel COMPLIT 111/311C
Oscar Wilde and the French Decadents Petra Dierkes-Thrun COMPLIT 112/312
Shakespeare, Playing, Gender Patricia Parker COMPLIT 11Q
Poems, Poetry, Worlds: The Origins, Evolution, and Migration of the Ghazal Dominic Parviz Brookshaw COMPLIT 121
Literature as Performance Monika Greenleaf COMPLIT 122
The Novel, The World Margaret Cohen COMPLIT 123
Past Desire Made Present: The Traditions of Erotic Poetry in Medieval Iran and Europe Dominic Parviz Brookshaw COMPLIT 125
Mind Games: Reading and Seeing the World Virginia Ramos COMPLIT 126B
Gender and Modernism Petra Dierkes-Thrun COMPLIT 133/333
The Meaning of Arabic Literature: a seminar investigation into the nebulous concept of adab Alexander Key COMPLIT 141A
The Literature of the Americas Roland Greene COMPLIT 142
Alla Turca Love: Tales of Romance in Turkish Literature Burcu Karahan Richardson COMPLIT 143A/342
Istanbul the Muse: The City in Literature and Film Burcu Karahan Richardson COMPLIT 144A
Reflection on the Other: The Jew and Arab in Literature and Film Vered Karti Shemtov COMPLIT 145
Asian American Cultures and Community David Palumbo-Liu COMPLIT 146
The Arab Spring in Arabic Literature Alexander Key COMPLIT 146A/347
Classical Arabic Poetry: An Introduction Alexander Key COMPLIT 149A/346
Philosophies, Literatures, and Alternatives Alexander Key COMPLIT 151A/351A
The Poetics of Dehumanization Noam Pines COMPLIT 160
Clone of Philosophy and Literature R. Lanier Anderson COMPLIT 181
Senior Seminar: Narrative and Ethics Amir Eshel COMPLIT 199/367
Earthly and Heavenly Intoxication: Wine Imagery in Medieval Persian Poetry and Prose Dominic Parviz Brookshaw COMPLIT 241B
Short Stories from South Asia COMPLIT 242A
Introductory Ottoman Turkish Burcu Karahan Richardson COMPLIT 245
Introductory Ottoman Turkish Burcu Karahan Richardson COMPLIT 245
Reading Turkish I Burcu Karahan Richardson COMPLIT 248A
Reading Turkish II Burcu Karahan Richardson COMPLIT 248B
Advanced Turkish for Research Burcu Karahan Richardson COMPLIT 248C
The Iranian Cinema: Image and Meaning Bahram Beyzaie COMPLIT 249A
Iranian Cinema in Diaspora Bahram Beyzaie COMPLIT 249B
Contemporary Iranian Theater Bahram Beyzaie COMPLIT 249C
Clone of Literature, History and Memory Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi COMPLIT 250
Humanities Education in the Changing University Russell Berman COMPLIT 275
Visions of the Future in Literature Vered Karti Shemtov COMPLIT 281
Epic and Empire Patricia Parker COMPLIT 320A
Genres of the Novel Margaret Cohen COMPLIT 327
Concepts of Modernity 2: The Study of Culture in the Age of Globalization José David Saldívar COMPLIT 334B
Experiment and the Novel John Bender COMPLIT 353A
Philosophical Reading Group Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht COMPLIT 359A
Imagining the Oceans Margaret Cohen COMPLIT 368
Introduction to Graduate Studies: Criticism as Profession David Palumbo-Liu COMPLIT 369
Aesthetics, Politics, and Literary Criticism: East and West Ban Wang COMPLIT 371
Pedagogy Seminar I COMPLIT 396L
Aesthetics of Dissent: the Case of Islamic Iran COMPLIT 40Q
Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity David Palumbo-Liu COMPLIT 51N
Paleography of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts DLCL 209
Humanities Education Russell Berman DLCL 220
Performance Monika Greenleaf DLCL 221
Philosophy and Literature R. Lanier Anderson DLCL 222
Renaissances Roland Greene DLCL 223
Workshop in Poetics Roland Greene DLCL 224
Literary Translation Cintia Santana DLCL 293
The Learning and Teaching of Second Languages Elizabeth Bernhardt DLCL 301
The Learning and Teaching of Second-Language Literatures Elizabeth Bernhardt DLCL 302
Classical Seminar: Rethinking Classics DLCL 321
Enlightenment Seminar Keith Baker DLCL 324
Literature and the Brain Joshua Landy FRENCH 118/318
Coffee and Cigarettes: The Making of French Intellectual Culture Dan Edelstein FRENCH 120
Religion, The Self, and Society in 20th-century French Novels and Film Jason Lewallen FRENCH 125
Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance French Literature Cécile Alduy FRENCH 130
Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution in 17th- and 18th-Century France Jean-Marie Apostolidès FRENCH 131
Literature, Revolutions, and Changes in 19th- and 20th-Century France Biliana Kassabova FRENCH 132
Paris: Capital of the Modern World James Daughton FRENCH 140/340
French Theatromania: From the great classics to private theater in 17th & 18th Century France Maria Teodora Comsa FRENCH 145
Film and Philosophy Joshua Landy FRENCH 154
Philosophy and Literature R. Lanier Anderson FRENCH 181
Parisian cultures of the 19th & Early 20th Century: Romanticism to Cubism Marc Bertrand FRENCH 190Q
Revolutions in Prose: The 19th-Century Novel Dan Edelstein FRENCH 204
The Renaissance Body in French Literature and Medicine Cécile Alduy FRENCH 219/319
Science, Technology, and Society in the Face of the Looming Disaster Jean-Pierre Dupuy FRENCH 228
Nation in Motion: Film, Race and Immigration in Contemporary French Cinema Cécile Alduy FRENCH 235/335
Seasons in North African Cinema and Literature Marie-Pierre Ulloa FRENCH 242
Literature, History and Memory Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi FRENCH 248
Understanding and Staging Molière Theatre Jean-Marie Apostolidès FRENCH 316
Nation in Motion: Film, Race and Immigration in Contemporary French Cinema Cécile Alduy FRENCH 65N
Writing About Germany: New Topics, New Genres Russell Berman GERMAN 116
Contemporary Politics in Germany Russell Berman GERMAN 120Q
Memory and the Modernist Novel Charitini Douvaldzi GERMAN 121N
German Culture and Film Kathryn Starkey GERMAN 123
Introduction to German Poetry Márton Dornbach GERMAN 124
Medicine, Modernism, and Mysticism in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain Russell Berman GERMAN 128N
Intro to 18th Century German Literature: The Age of Reason, Feeling and Revolution Falk Cammin GERMAN 131
Intro to Nineteenth-Century German Literature Márton Dornbach GERMAN 132
Freud's Vienna Charitini Douvaldzi GERMAN 134
War and Warfare in Germany Russell Berman GERMAN 182
Technology, Innovation, and the History of the Book Kathryn Starkey GERMAN 184
German Capstone: Reading Franz Kafka Amir Eshel GERMAN 190/390
Dionysus - Mythology and Poetry of a Nietzschean Inspiration Karl Heinz Bohrer GERMAN 210/310
German Literature Pre 1700: Medieval and Early Modern German Literature Kathryn Starkey GERMAN 220/320
From Enlightenment to Realism Márton Dornbach GERMAN 221/321
German Literature and Thought from 1900 to the Present: Wrestling with Modernity Amir Eshel GERMAN 222/322
The Bildungsroman and Other Biographical Fictions Charitini Douvaldzi GERMAN 234
Bildungsroman and Other Biographical Fictions Charitini Douvaldzi GERMAN 234/334
German Idealist and Romantic Aesthetics Márton Dornbach GERMAN 245
The Rhetoric of Futurity in German Literature Around 1800 Stefan Willer GERMAN 254
Martin Heidegger Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht GERMAN 282/382
Oedipus, Hamlet, Moses: Archetypes of the Hero Charitini Douvaldzi GERMAN 291A/391A