Comparative Literature Courses

Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day & Time

COMPLIT 12Q
Art in the Metropolis (ARTSINST 11Q)

Santana, C. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

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)

Shemtov, V. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

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

Berman, R. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

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

Karahan, B. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Monday Wednesday 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)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

COMPLIT 49A
Classical Texts and Traditions I: "It's All Greek to Me": Ancient Greek Classics (CIVIC 49A, CLASSICS 49A)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

COMPLIT 49B
Classical Texts and Traditions II - Across Oceans of Time: Classical Roman Texts (CIVIC 49B, CLASSICS 49B)

2026 - 2027
Winter

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

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

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

Saldivar, J. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 9:30 AM- 11:20 AM

COMPLIT 56N
Imagining the Universe: From Dante to Contemporary Cosmology (FRENCH 56N, ITALIAN 56N)

Berchi, G. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 61N
Literature and Belonging

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 75Q
Slums: The Dark Side of the Cities (DLCL 75Q, FRENCH 75Q, URBANST 75Q)

Soler, C. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 100
CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People (DLCL 100, FRENCH 175, GERMAN 175, HISTORY 106E, ILAC 175, ITALIAN 175, URBANST 153)

Pesic, A. (PI)
Pieck, R. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Monday Wednesday 10:30 AM- 11:20 AM

COMPLIT 101
What Is Comparative Literature?

2026 - 2027
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)

Key, A. (PI)
Kiadan, J. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

COMPLIT 117M
Scholars and Activism (COMPLIT 317, CSRE 127)

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 121
Poems, Poetry, Worlds

Santana, C. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 122
Literature as Performance:

Barletta, V. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 123
The Novel

Resina, J. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 125J
Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Beyond: Place in Modern Japan (JAPAN 125, JAPAN 225)

Levy, I. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

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

Shiram, G. (TA)
Shemtov, V. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

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

Seck, F. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 147P
Palestine in Literature and Film (COMPLIT 347P, CSRE 147P)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 151G
Heroes and Heroines (COMPLIT 251G, GERMAN 151, GERMAN 251)

von Stosch, E. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Monday Wednesday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 161E
Narrative and Narrative Theory (ENGLISH 161)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

COMPLIT 161E
Narrative and Narrative Theory (ENGLISH 161)

Moya, P. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Monday Wednesday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 168
Literature and Postcolonial Worlds: Perspectives from Southeast Asia

2026 - 2027
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 169
Western Literature and Totalitarianism

2026 - 2027
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

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

Landy, J. (PI)
Anderson, R. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 190
Architecture and Space in Twentieth-Century Iranian Cinema (FILMEDIA 292)

Salari Sardari, M. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 9:00 AM- 10:20 AM

COMPLIT 190B
Architecture in Iran's Literature

2026 - 2027
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 9:00 AM- 10:20 AM

COMPLIT 199
Senior Seminar

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Monday Wednesday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 202G
Denazification (GERMAN 202)

Daub, A. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Tuesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 203R
Queer Romance (ENGLISH 302R, FRENCH 203, FRENCH 303, ITALIAN 202)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Tuesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 205
The Power of Myth (COMPLIT 313, ILAC 205, ILAC 305)

Resina, J. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Wednesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

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

Ioannidis, J. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Friday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 209
Ecopoetry

2026 - 2027
Spring

COMPLIT 211
Girard, Schmitt, Strauss

Berman, R. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Wednesday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 211G
Cabinets of Wonder (GERMAN 211)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

COMPLIT 212
Early Modern South Asia: The Mughal World

2026 - 2027
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

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

Seck, F. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 214A
Love's Reach: A Visual and Poetic History (ARTHIST 214A, ARTHIST 414A, COMPLIT 318)

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

2026 - 2027
Winter

Tuesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 214M
Writing Modernity: Gender, Space and Literary Interventions in Iran (FEMGEN 214M)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 9:00 AM- 10:20 AM

COMPLIT 217
Narrating the Enslaved, the Outcast, and Marginalized: Slavery in the Islamicate World

Karahan, B. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Monday Wednesday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 218
Theodor W. Adorno: History, Society, Aesthetics (GERMAN 218)

Daub, A. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Monday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 224
Eros, Poetry and Religion: The Ghazal

2026 - 2027
Winter

Wednesday Friday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 225
Word and Image (ARTHIST 265A, ARTHIST 465A, ITALIAN 265, ITALIAN 365)

Prodan, S. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Friday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 228
Critical Translation Studies (JAPAN 123, JAPAN 223)

2026 - 2027
Winter

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

2026 - 2027
Winter

COMPLIT 242
Poetry Workshop in Spanish (ILAC 242)

Santana, C. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 244G
Monsters and Mermaids (GERMAN 143, GERMAN 243)

von Stosch, E. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 245
Introductory Ottoman Turkish

Karahan, B. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Monday Wednesday 9:30 AM- 11:20 AM

COMPLIT 248
Indigenous Literatures and Cultures of the Americas (COMPLIT 347G, ILAC 247, ILAC 347G)

2026 - 2027
Spring

COMPLIT 248A
Reading Turkish I

Karahan, B. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 9:30 AM- 11:20 AM

COMPLIT 248B
Reading Turkish II

Karahan, B. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Monday Wednesday 9:30 AM- 11:20 AM

COMPLIT 260
The Sacred at Hand (COMPLIT 360, GERMAN 260E, TAPS 260E)

Smith, M. (PI)
Eshel, A. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Friday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 264
Introduction to Global Black Diaspora Studies II (AFRICAAM 264, CSRE 165A, FRENCH 264E, HISTORY 246E)

Seck, F. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 264S
Race, Gender, Justice (CSRE 264S, FEMGEN 264S, TAPS 264S)

Menon, J. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Thursday 9:00 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 291
Literature and Rage: The Poetics of Collective Emotions (JEWISHST 290)

Shemtov, V. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

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

Karahan, B. (PI)
Santana, C. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 299
Individual Work

2026 - 2027
Spring

COMPLIT 299
Individual Work

Saldivar, J. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

COMPLIT 302G
Perceval and the Quest for the Holy Grail (ENGLISH 302G, GERMAN 302)

Starkey, K. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Friday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 311M
New Directions in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (HISTORY 311M)

2026 - 2027
Winter

COMPLIT 311M
New Directions in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (HISTORY 311M)

2026 - 2027
Spring

COMPLIT 311M
New Directions in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (HISTORY 311M)

Dorin, R. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Wednesday 12:00 PM- 1:15 PM

COMPLIT 313
The Power of Myth (COMPLIT 205, ILAC 205, ILAC 305)

Resina, J. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Wednesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 317
Scholars and Activism (COMPLIT 117M, CSRE 127)

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 318
Love's Reach: A Visual and Poetic History (ARTHIST 214A, ARTHIST 414A, COMPLIT 214A)

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

2026 - 2027
Winter

Tuesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

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

Landy, J. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Thursday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 335
Literatures of the War of 1898: Spain, Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and the United States (ILAC 225, ILAC 325)

Saldivar, J. (PI)
Surwillo, L. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Tuesday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 339
Memory Matters (SLAVIC 233, SLAVIC 332)

Ilchuk, Y. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Wednesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 346
Comparative Literature Pro-seminar

Berman, R. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Monday 1:30 PM- 3:20 PM

COMPLIT 347P
Palestine in Literature and Film (COMPLIT 147P, CSRE 147P)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM- 1:20 PM

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

Saldivar, J. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Thursday 4:30 PM- 7:20 PM

COMPLIT 360
The Sacred at Hand (COMPLIT 260, GERMAN 260E, TAPS 260E)

Smith, M. (PI)
Eshel, A. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Friday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 367E
Contemporary Theory Lab (ENGLISH 367E, ILAC 367E)

2026 - 2027
Spring

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

Surwillo, L. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Thursday 4:30 PM- 6:20 PM

COMPLIT 371
Posthumanism, Biopolitics, and the Anthropocene in Science Fiction: A Comparative Perspective (CHINA 371)

Wang, B. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Monday 11:30 AM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 375
Navigating Chaos: Literature, Prime Matter, and the Ocean (ITALIAN 375)

Berchi, G. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Tuesday 4:30 PM- 7:20 PM

COMPLIT 378
Teaching, Ethics, and Literature in the Age of AI

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Monday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 397
Graduate Studies Colloquium

Eshel, A. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 397
Graduate Studies Colloquium

Eshel, A. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 397
Graduate Studies Colloquium

Eshel, A. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 398L
Literary Lab (ENGLISH 398L)

Algee-Hewitt, M. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

COMPLIT 398L
Literary Lab (ENGLISH 398L)

Algee-Hewitt, M. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

COMPLIT 398L
Literary Lab (ENGLISH 398L)

Algee-Hewitt, M. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

COMPLIT 399
Individual Work

Barletta, V. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

COMPLIT 399
Individual Work

Barletta, V. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

COMPLIT 399
Individual Work

Barletta, V. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

COMPLIT 802
TGR Dissertation

Barletta, V. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Autumn

COMPLIT 802
TGR Dissertation

Barletta, V. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Winter

COMPLIT 802
TGR Dissertation

Barletta, V. (PI)

2026 - 2027
Spring

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