Comparative Literature Courses

Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day & Time

COMPLIT 10N
Shakespeare and Performance in a Global Context

Parker, P. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 6:00 PM- 7:20 PM

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

Dierkes, P. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 31
Texts that Changed the World from the Ancient Middle East (HUMCORE 111, JEWISHST 150, RELIGST 150)

2024 - 2025
Winter

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

Berman, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

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

Berman, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday Wednesday 9:30 AM- 10:50 AM

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

Karahan, B. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

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

Stilerman, T. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

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

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Monday Wednesday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

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

Saldivar, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 77N
Ink and Resistance: Unraveling Latin American Narratives (CHILATST 77N, ILAC 77N)

Pieck, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 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)
Daub, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 10:30 AM- 11:20 AM

COMPLIT 101
What Is Comparative Literature?

Naddaff, A. (TA)
Saldivar, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

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

2024 - 2025
Spring

COMPLIT 111Q
Texts and Contexts: Spanish/English Literary Translation Workshop (DLCL 111Q, ILAC 111Q)

Santana, C. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 116M
'From New Orleans to Jerusalem': Bob Dylan and the History of Song as Literature (FRENCH 116M, ITALIAN 116M)

Carter, H. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 117P
Postmodern and Contemporary American Poetry

Yu, K. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 119
The Turkish Novel (COMPLIT 319)

Karahan, B. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 121
Poems, Poetry, Worlds

Yu, K. (TA)
Huber, M. (PI)
Shemtov, V. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 122
Literature as Performance:

Barletta, V. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 9:00 AM- 10:20 AM

COMPLIT 123
The Novel (DLCL 143)

Jia, L. (TA)
Saldivar, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

COMPLIT 127
Adventures in Skepticism

Kurtz, G. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

COMPLIT 127B
The Hebrew and Jewish Short Story (JEWISHST 147B)

Tadmor, J. (PI)
Shemtov, V. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Thursday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

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

Seck, F. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 135
From Maize to AI: The Nonhuman From Pre-Columbian Times to the Present (COMPLIT 235)

Pieck, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

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

Choh, P. (TA)
Bahia, G. (TA)
Mehrish, D. (TA)
Gedik, M. (TA)
Zhan, M. (TA)
Landy, J. (PI)
Eagleman, D. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 145
Reflections on the Other: Literature from the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (CSRE 145A, JEWISHST 106)

Shemtov, V. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Wednesday 12:30 PM- 2:20 PM

COMPLIT 146
Living Through Catastrophe (COMPLIT 349)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 154F
Fanon (CSRE 154F, FEMGEN 154F, FRENCH 154F)

Brault, C. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 161
Literature and Belonging

2024 - 2025
Summer

COMPLIT 161E
Narrative and Narrative Theory (ENGLISH 161)

Therieau, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 161E
Narrative and Narrative Theory (ENGLISH 161)

Saldivar, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 161E
Narrative and Narrative Theory (ENGLISH 161)

Moya, P. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 171
Sights and Sounds of Modernity: Iran 1925-1979 (COMPLIT 271)

Huber, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Monday Wednesday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 173
Vladimir Nabokov: Displacement and the Liberated Eye (COMPLIT 273, SLAVIC 156, SLAVIC 356)

Gorshkova, M. (PI)
Greenleaf, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

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

Santana, C. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday Wednesday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 179
Rumi: Rhythms of Creation (COMPLIT 249)

Huber, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

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

Tadmor, J. (TA)
Martinez Periset, F. (TA)
Starovoitov, S. (TA)
Landy, J. (PI)
Anderson, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Monday Wednesday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 184A
Poetry and Mysticism (COMPLIT 284A)

Huber, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 199
Senior Seminar

Machado de Oliveira, M. (TA)
Eshel, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday Wednesday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 204A
Non-English Text Analysis for Humanists (DLCL 204)

Dombrowski, Q. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

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

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

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

Ioannidis, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

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

2024 - 2025
Winter

COMPLIT 222
Narratives of Modern and Contemporary Korea (KOREA 120, KOREA 220)

Zur, D. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 4:30 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 222L
Song and Lyric in Greece and China: A Comparative Approach (CLASSICS 222, CLASSICS 322, COMPLIT 322)

Peponi, A. (PI)
Carter, H. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

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

Seck, F. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 235
From Maize to AI: The Nonhuman From Pre-Columbian Times to the Present (COMPLIT 135)

Pieck, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

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

Choh, P. (TA)
Bahia, G. (TA)
Mehrish, D. (TA)
Gedik, M. (TA)
Zhan, M. (TA)
Landy, J. (PI)
Eagleman, D. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 242
Poetry Workshop in Spanish (ILAC 242)

Santana, C. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

COMPLIT 243B
Arabic Poetry: Advanced Readings in Arabic Literature and Science II

Key, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 12:30 PM- 2:20 PM

COMPLIT 243G
Adab and Ilm: Advanced Readings in Arabic Literature and Science I

Key, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday Wednesday 9:30 AM- 11:20 AM

COMPLIT 245
Introductory Ottoman Turkish

2024 - 2025
Spring

Monday Wednesday 8:30 AM- 9:50 AM

COMPLIT 248
Indigenous Literatures and Cultures of the Americas

Pieck, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Tuesday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 248A
Reading Turkish I

Karahan, B. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 8:30 AM- 9:50 AM

COMPLIT 248B
Reading Turkish II

Karahan, B. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday Wednesday 8:30 AM- 9:50 AM

COMPLIT 248C
Advanced Turkish-English Translation

2024 - 2025
Spring

COMPLIT 249
Rumi: Rhythms of Creation (COMPLIT 179)

Huber, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 249A
The Iranian Cinema: Image and Meaning (GLOBAL 249A)

Beyzaie, B. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Thursday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

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

Beyzaie, B. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Thursday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 254
The Middle East through Graphic Novel

Karahan, B. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Monday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 256
Classics and Modernity in Europe (CLASSICS 250, GERMAN 257, ILAC 257E)

Onorato, C. (GP)
Garrigasait, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 257
Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero (COMPLIT 357A, FEMGEN 257X, FEMGEN 357X, FRENCH 257, FRENCH 357, ITALIAN 257, ITALIAN 357)

Wittman, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Wednesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 258
Redemption and Jewish Modernity (GERMAN 258, JEWISHST 258)

Horowitz, A. (SI)
Eshel, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Tuesday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 258A
Existentialism, from Moral Quest to Novelistic Form (FRENCH 258A, ILAC 211, ILAC 311)

Resina, J. (PI)
Naddaff, A. (TA)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 264
Foundations in Global Black Diasporic Studies II: Race, Gender, and Identity (AFRICAAM 264, CSRE 165A, FRENCH 264E)

Seck, F. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 270
Poetess (Obsolete): Women Poets Take Back Time (SLAVIC 270)

Greenleaf, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Wednesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 271
Sights and Sounds of Modernity: Iran 1925-1979 (COMPLIT 171)

Huber, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Monday Wednesday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 273
Vladimir Nabokov: Displacement and the Liberated Eye (COMPLIT 173, SLAVIC 156, SLAVIC 356)

Gorshkova, M. (PI)
Greenleaf, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 274
Wonder: The Event of Art and Literature (ARTHIST 274, ARTHIST 474, COMPLIT 374A, JEWISHST 274)

Eshel, A. (PI)
Nemerov, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 284A
Poetry and Mysticism (COMPLIT 184A)

Huber, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 289
Mann, Mahfouz, Agnon: Novels, Nations and Genre (GERMAN 291, JEWISHST 289)

Galietti, A. (PI)
Berman, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 292
Gender and Intersectionality in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (ENGLISH 229, FEMGEN 292A, GERMAN 292)

2024 - 2025
Winter

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

Santana, C. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

COMPLIT 299
Individual Work

Saldivar, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

COMPLIT 305
Prospects for a Comparative Poetics

Key, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday 12:00 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 316
Scholarship and Activism (CSRE 216A)

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:20 PM

COMPLIT 316
Scholarship and Activism (CSRE 216A)

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:20 PM

COMPLIT 316
Scholarship and Activism (CSRE 216A)

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:20 PM

COMPLIT 319
The Turkish Novel (COMPLIT 119)

Karahan, B. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 320A
Epic and Empire (ENGLISH 314)

2024 - 2025
Winter

COMPLIT 322
Song and Lyric in Greece and China: A Comparative Approach (CLASSICS 222, CLASSICS 322, COMPLIT 222L)

Peponi, A. (PI)
Carter, H. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 324
Before the Global South: The Avant-Garde and the Quest for New Knowledges in the Premodern (FRENCH 324)

Galvez, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Thursday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 338
Transatlantic Gothic (ENGLISH 338, FRENCH 338)

Ruttenburg, N. (PI)
Cohen, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Thursday 12:00 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 346
Comparative Literature Pro-seminar

Daub, A. (PI)
Landy, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Thursday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 347
Difficult Texts

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

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

Saldivar, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 349
Living Through Catastrophe (COMPLIT 146)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 350L
Law and Literature: Liberalism and Beyond (ENGLISH 350)

Meyler, B. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday 4:15 PM- 6:15 PM

COMPLIT 357A
Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero (COMPLIT 257, FEMGEN 257X, FEMGEN 357X, FRENCH 257, FRENCH 357, ITALIAN 257, ITALIAN 357)

Wittman, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Wednesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

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

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

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

Surwillo, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday 4:30 PM- 6:20 PM

COMPLIT 374A
Wonder: The Event of Art and Literature (ARTHIST 274, ARTHIST 474, COMPLIT 274, JEWISHST 274)

Eshel, A. (PI)
Nemerov, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 376
How to Think About Catastrophe Toward a Theory of Enlightened Doomsaying (FRENCH 367, POLISCI 237R, POLISCI 337R, STS 200V)

Dupuy, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 397
Graduate Studies Colloquium

Eshel, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 397
Graduate Studies Colloquium

Eshel, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 397
Graduate Studies Colloquium

Eshel, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 398L
Literary Lab (ENGLISH 398L)

Nomura, N. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

COMPLIT 398L
Literary Lab (ENGLISH 398L)

Nomura, N. (PI)
Warner, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

COMPLIT 398L
Literary Lab (ENGLISH 398L)

Nomura, N. (PI)
Warner, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

COMPLIT 399
Individual Work

Barletta, V. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

COMPLIT 399
Individual Work

Barletta, V. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

COMPLIT 399
Individual Work

Barletta, V. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

COMPLIT 399
Individual Work

Barletta, V. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Summer

COMPLIT 802
TGR Dissertation

Barletta, V. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

COMPLIT 802
TGR Dissertation

Barletta, V. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

COMPLIT 802
TGR Dissertation

Barletta, V. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

COMPLIT 802
TGR Dissertation

Barletta, V. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Summer

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