Comparative Literature Courses

Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day & Time

COMPLIT 10SC
The Cult of Happiness: Pursuing the Good Life in America and China (CHINA 10SC)

Lee, H. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Summer

COMPLIT 21Q
Wilde's Worlds: Oscar Wilde in the International Context

Dierkes, P. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 36A
Dangerous Ideas (ARTHIST 36, EALC 36, ENGLISH 71, ETHICSOC 36X, FRENCH 36, HISTORY 3D, MUSIC 36H, PHIL 36, POLISCI 70, RELIGST 36X, SLAVIC 36, TAPS 36)

2023 - 2024
Winter

COMPLIT 36A
Dangerous Ideas (ARTHIST 36, EALC 36, ENGLISH 71, ETHICSOC 36X, FRENCH 36, HISTORY 3D, MUSIC 36H, PHIL 36, POLISCI 70, RELIGST 36X, SLAVIC 36, TAPS 36)

Safran, G. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Tuesday 4:30 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 37Q
Zionism and the Novel (JEWISHST 37Q)

Berman, R. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 37Q
Zionism and the Novel (JEWISHST 37Q)

Berman, R. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 43
Modernity and Politics in Middle Eastern Literatures (HUMCORE 131)

Karahan, B. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 44
Humanities Core: How to be Modern in East Asia (CHINA 24, HUMCORE 133, JAPAN 24, KOREA 24)

Xu, L. (PI)
Reichert, J. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Tuesday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 51Q
Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity (AMSTUD 51Q, CSRE 51Q)

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 55N
Black Panther, Hamilton, Diaz, and Other Wondrous Lives (CSRE 55N)

Saldivar, J. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 57
Human Rights and World Literature

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Summer

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 100
CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People (DLCL 100, FRENCH 175, GERMAN 175, HISTORY 206E, ILAC 175, ITALIAN 175, URBANST 153)

Pesic, A. (PI)
Cotsapas, P. (TA)
Dule, G. (TA)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Monday Wednesday Friday 9:30 AM- 10:20 AM

COMPLIT 101
What Is Comparative Literature?

Carter, H. (TA)
Saldivar, R. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

COMPLIT 104N
Film and Fascism in Europe (FILMEDIA 105N, FRENCH 104N, ITALIAN 104N)

Alduy, C. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 107A
Ancient Knowledge, New Frontiers: How the Greek Legacy Became Islamic Science (CLASSICS 47, HUMCORE 121)

Netz, R. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Tuesday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 121
Poems, Poetry, Worlds

Santana, C. (PI)
Galietti, A. (TA)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 122
Literature as Performance:

Barletta, V. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 9:00 AM- 10:20 AM

COMPLIT 123
The Novel (DLCL 143)

Lee, H. (PI)
Horowitz, A. (TA)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 127
Adventures in Skepticism

Kurtz, G. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 133
Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (AFRICAAM 133, AFRICAST 132, COMPLIT 233A, CSRE 133E, FRENCH 133, JEWISHST 143)

Seck, F. (PI)
Yu, K. (TA)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Monday Wednesday 9:30 AM- 10:50 AM

COMPLIT 138
Literature and the Brain (COMPLIT 238, ENGLISH 118, ENGLISH 218, FRENCH 118, FRENCH 218, PSYC 126, PSYCH 118F)

Martinez, N. (TA)
Heyward-Rotimi, K. (TA)
Ding, G. (TA)
Cashe, I. (TA)
Horowitz, A. (TA)
Carter, H. (TA)
Landy, J. (PI)
Eagleman, D. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 144
The Idea of the "Poetic": Poetry and Other Arts in the Twentieth Century

2023 - 2024
Autumn

COMPLIT 144
The Idea of the "Poetic": Poetry and Other Arts in the Twentieth Century

Ding, G. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Monday Wednesday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 145C
Narratives of Enslavement (AFRICAAM 145, CLASSICS 145, CLASSICS 245)

Parker, G. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Wednesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 148
Transcultural Perspectives of South-East Asian Music and Arts (COMPLIT 267, FRENCH 260A, MUSIC 146N, MUSIC 246N)

Kretz, H. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 157
Time Travel in Abya Yala: Decolonising Time (CHILATST 157)

Martinez, N. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Monday Wednesday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 161E
Narrative and Narrative Theory (ENGLISH 161)

Bronstein, M. (PI)
Osundeko, S. (GP)
Livingston, K. (GP)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 161E
Narrative and Narrative Theory (ENGLISH 161)

Nomura, N. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Monday Wednesday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 161E
Narrative and Narrative Theory (ENGLISH 161)

Saldivar, R. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 163
A Brief History of Now: Song and Poetry from Sappho to Taylor Swift (FRENCH 163)

Galvez, M. (PI)
Carter, H. (SI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Monday Wednesday 9:30 AM- 10:50 AM

COMPLIT 164
Solidarity - Histories, Literatures, Rationales (COMPLIT 364, CSRE 164)

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Wednesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 176
Forms of Poetry at Home and Abroad: A Workshop (ILAC 176)

Santana, C. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Monday Wednesday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 179
Rumi: Rhythms of Creation (COMPLIT 249)

2023 - 2024
Spring

COMPLIT 181
Philosophy and Literature (CLASSICS 42, ENGLISH 81, FRENCH 181, GERMAN 181, ILAC 181, ITALIAN 181, PHIL 81, SLAVIC 181)

Dowling, G. (TA)
McGuthry, M. (TA)
Machado de Oliveira, M. (TA)
Peacocke, A. (PI)
Landy, J. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 184B
Nationalism, Cultural and Political (COMPLIT 384, ILAC 184, ILAC 384)

Resina, J. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Tuesday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 199
Senior Seminar

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 202
Feminist and Queer Theories and Methods Across the Disciplines (FEMGEN 103, FEMGEN 203)

2023 - 2024
Winter

COMPLIT 206
Travel Literature, Empire and the (Un)making of Masculinities (FEMGEN 206F)

Daub, A. (PI)
Yu, K. (TA)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Monday Wednesday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 207B
Emergent Thinking: Abolition and Climate Change (AFRICAAM 207, CSRE 207)

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 9:00 AM- 10:20 AM

COMPLIT 208
The Cosmopolitan Introvert: Modern Greek Poetry and its Itinerants

Ioannidis, J. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Thursday 4:30 PM- 7:20 PM

COMPLIT 213
Culture and Revolution in Africa (AFRICAAM 213, FRENCH 213E, HISTORY 243E)

Seck, F. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 214
Shipwrecks and Backlands: Getting Lost in Literature (COMPLIT 314A, ILAC 218, ILAC 318)

Hughes, N. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Tuesday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 230
Re-Orienting Modernity: Lepers, Hermits, Mutes

2023 - 2024
Spring

COMPLIT 233A
Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (AFRICAAM 133, AFRICAST 132, COMPLIT 133, CSRE 133E, FRENCH 133, JEWISHST 143)

Seck, F. (PI)
Yu, K. (TA)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Monday Wednesday 9:30 AM- 10:50 AM

COMPLIT 238
Literature and the Brain (COMPLIT 138, ENGLISH 118, ENGLISH 218, FRENCH 118, FRENCH 218, PSYC 126, PSYCH 118F)

Martinez, N. (TA)
Heyward-Rotimi, K. (TA)
Ding, G. (TA)
Cashe, I. (TA)
Horowitz, A. (TA)
Carter, H. (TA)
Landy, J. (PI)
Eagleman, D. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 238A
Dante's "Inferno" (ITALIAN 238A, ITALIAN 338A)

Dansereau, C. (TA)
Harrison, R. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 238B
Dante's "Purgatorio" and "Paradiso" (ITALIAN 238B, ITALIAN 338B)

Dansereau, C. (TA)
Harrison, R. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Monday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 245
Introductory Ottoman Turkish

Karahan, B. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

COMPLIT 248A
Reading Turkish I

Karahan, B. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 8:30 AM- 9:50 AM

COMPLIT 248B
Reading Turkish II

Karahan, B. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 8:30 AM- 9:50 AM

COMPLIT 248C
Advanced Turkish-English Translation

Karahan, B. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Monday Wednesday 9:30 AM- 10:50 AM

COMPLIT 249
Rumi: Rhythms of Creation (COMPLIT 179)

2023 - 2024
Spring

COMPLIT 249B
Iranian Cinema in Diaspora (GLOBAL 249B)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

COMPLIT 249B
Iranian Cinema in Diaspora (GLOBAL 249B)

Beyzaie, B. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Thursday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 249C
Contemporary Iranian Theater (GLOBAL 249C)

Beyzaie, B. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Thursday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 253
Losing My Mind: Madness, Race, and Gender in Latin America (ILAC 253, ILAC 353)

Fraga, I. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Wednesday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 254
The Middle East through Graphic Novel

Karahan, B. (PI)
Alemdaroglu, A. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Monday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 264
Crossing the Atlantic: Race Identity in the "Old" and"New" African Diasporas (AFRICAAM 264, CSRE 265, FRENCH 264E)

Seck, F. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Monday Wednesday 9:30 AM- 10:50 AM

COMPLIT 267
Transcultural Perspectives of South-East Asian Music and Arts (COMPLIT 148, FRENCH 260A, MUSIC 146N, MUSIC 246N)

Kretz, H. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 293
Literary Translation: Theory and Practice (DLCL 293, ENGLISH 293)

Santana, C. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

COMPLIT 314A
Shipwrecks and Backlands: Getting Lost in Literature (COMPLIT 214, ILAC 218, ILAC 318)

Hughes, N. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Tuesday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 316
Scholarship and Activism for Justice (CSRE 316)

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:20 PM

COMPLIT 316
Scholarship and Activism for Justice (CSRE 316)

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:20 PM

COMPLIT 316
Scholarship and Activism for Justice (CSRE 316)

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:20 PM

COMPLIT 320A
Epic and Empire (ENGLISH 314)

Parker, P. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Tuesday 6:00 PM- 8:50 PM

COMPLIT 328
Literature, Narrative, and the Self (FRENCH 328, ITALIAN 328)

Landy, J. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Wednesday 4:30 PM- 7:20 PM

COMPLIT 346
Comparative Literature Pro-seminar

Greene, R. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Friday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 348
US-Mexico Border Fictions: Writing La Frontera, Tearing Down the Wall (ILAC 348)

Saldivar, J. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Thursday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 355
The French-Speaking World: Literature, Culture, and Translation (CSRE 355, FRENCH 355)

Seck, F. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 359A
Philosophical Reading Group (FRENCH 395, ITALIAN 395)

Harrison, R. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

COMPLIT 364
Solidarity - Histories, Literatures, Rationales (COMPLIT 164, CSRE 164)

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Wednesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 369
Introduction to the Profession of Literary Studies (DLCL 369, FRENCH 369, GERMAN 369, ITALIAN 369)

Lawton, D. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Thursday 4:30 PM- 6:20 PM

COMPLIT 371
Politics, Aesthetics, Critical Ecology: Artworks and the Environment (CHINA 371)

Wang, B. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 376
Introduction to Apocalyptic Thinking (FRENCH 367, POLISCI 237R, POLISCI 337R)

Dupuy, J. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Tuesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 384
Nationalism, Cultural and Political (COMPLIT 184B, ILAC 184, ILAC 384)

Resina, J. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Tuesday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 397
Graduate Studies Colloquium

Saldivar, J. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 397
Graduate Studies Colloquium

Saldivar, J. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 397
Graduate Studies Colloquium

Saldivar, J. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 398L
Literary Lab (ENGLISH 398L)

2023 - 2024
Summer

COMPLIT 398L
Literary Lab (ENGLISH 398L)

Algee-Hewitt, M. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

COMPLIT 398L
Literary Lab (ENGLISH 398L)

Algee-Hewitt, M. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

COMPLIT 399
Individual Work

Eshel, A. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

COMPLIT 399
Individual Work

Eshel, A. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

COMPLIT 399
Individual Work

Daub, A. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

COMPLIT 399
Individual Work

Key, A. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Summer

COMPLIT 802
TGR Dissertation

Eshel, A. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

COMPLIT 802
TGR Dissertation

Eshel, A. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Winter

COMPLIT 802
TGR Dissertation

Eshel, A. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Spring

COMPLIT 802
TGR Dissertation

Key, A. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Summer

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