Comparative Literature Courses

Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day & Time

COMPLIT 11Q
Shakespeare, Playing, Gender

Parker, P. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 6:00 PM- 7:20 PM

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

Shemtov, V. (PI)
Fonrobert, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

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

Berman, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

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

Stilerman, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

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

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

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

Saldivar, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

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

Berchi, G. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 9:30 AM- 10:50 AM

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

Pieck, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

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)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday 10:30 AM- 11:20 AM

COMPLIT 101
What Is Comparative Literature?

Saldivar, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

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

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

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

COMPLIT 113Q
Borges and Translation (DLCL 113Q, ILAC 113Q)

Santana, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

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

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

COMPLIT 121
Poems, Poetry, Worlds

Pieck, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 122
Literature as Performance:

Barletta, V. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 123
The Novel

Lee, H. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 127
Adventures in Skepticism

Kurtz, G. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

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

Shemtov, V. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Wednesday 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)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

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

BHATTACHARYA, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Thursday 4:30 PM- 7:20 PM

COMPLIT 141F
Fiction Workshop in Spanish (ILAC 141)

Santana, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

COMPLIT 146
Living Through Catastrophe (COMPLIT 349)

Karakurt, H. (TA)
Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 146W
Poetry in the Anthropocene: A Writing Workshop (ILAC 146W)

Santana, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

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

Galietti, A. (TA)
Key, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 9:30 AM- 10:20 AM

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

Key, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Summer

Monday Wednesday 10:30 AM- 12:30 PM

COMPLIT 156B
Literature and the Historical Event (JEWISHST 156B)

Horowitz, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 160M
Making the Middle Ages: Objects and Meaning Then and Now (GERMAN 160, GERMAN 360)

Starkey, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 9:00 AM- 10:20 AM

COMPLIT 161
Literature and Belonging

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Summer

Monday Wednesday Friday 1:30 PM- 3:45 PM

COMPLIT 161E
Narrative and Narrative Theory (ENGLISH 161)

Jordan, J. (PI)
Gross, A. (TA)
Sauter, C. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 161E
Narrative and Narrative Theory (ENGLISH 161)

Jordan, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 166
An Other Science: Technical Knowledge in Multiethnic America (CSRE 128)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday Friday 2:30 PM- 3:20 PM

COMPLIT 167
Introduction to Environmental Studies (DLCL 167, ENGLISH 167A, ILAC 167A)

Briceno, X. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 167B
Emotions and Literature: Histories, Cultures, and Societies

Martinez Periset, F. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday 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)

Nowak, E. (PI)
Ilchuk, Y. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 185
Obedience and Otherness (JEWISHST 180, PSYCH 185A)

Mock, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday 10:30 AM- 11:50 AM

COMPLIT 187
From the Ruins: Art, Literature, and Thought ca. 1945 and Beyond (COMPLIT 387)

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

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 199
Senior Seminar

Akova, E. (PI)
Eshel, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

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

Ioannidis, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Thursday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

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

Salari Sardari, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 9:00 AM- 10:20 AM

COMPLIT 231B
Cultural Hybridity (SLAVIC 160, SLAVIC 360)

Ilchuk, Y. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Friday 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)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

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

2025 - 2026
Winter

COMPLIT 237T
Saved in Translation: An Intellectual Topography of the Mediterranean. Antiquity to the Present (ILAC 237)

Ponsati Murla, O. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 242C
Close Reading: History, Theory, Practice (COMPLIT 342C, ENGLISH 242C, GERMAN 242C, GERMAN 342C)

Pao, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Wednesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 243B
Arabic Poetry

Key, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

COMPLIT 248A
Reading Turkish I

Karahan, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 8:30 AM- 9:50 AM

COMPLIT 248B
Reading Turkish II

Karahan, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday 8:30 AM- 9:50 AM

COMPLIT 249C
Contemporary Iranian Theater (GLOBAL 249C)

2025 - 2026
Spring

COMPLIT 249D
Iranian Cinema: From Local to Global (GLOBAL 248)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

COMPLIT 249D
Iranian Cinema: From Local to Global (GLOBAL 248)

2025 - 2026
Winter

COMPLIT 254
The Middle East through Graphic Novel

Karahan, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 269
Modernist Poetry and the Crisis of Knowledge

Kleinbock, E. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 272
Tristan and Isolde: Love and the Shaping of Desire (COMPLIT 372, GERMAN 272, GERMAN 372)

Starkey, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Wednesday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 275
Aesthetics of Transition: Modernism and Tradition in Iranian Architecture, Film and Literature

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday 9:30 AM- 11:20 AM

COMPLIT 278
Women Writing War (FEMGEN 278A, GERMAN 278)

George, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 279
Literature and the Practice of Freedom (COMPLIT 379, GERMAN 279, GERMAN 379)

Eshel, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Friday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 282
Modern Jewish Thought - Voices of Tradition and Transformation (JEWISHST 283)

Eshel, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Thursday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 283F
Recovering Lost Voices: French and Francophone Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present (COMPLIT 383F, FEMGEN 283F, FEMGEN 383F, FRENCH 283, FRENCH 383)

Kong, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Thursday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 284
What Does "Undocumented" Mean? (CSRE 284)

Lee, J. (TA)
Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 289E
Desire, Violence, and the Sacred: Introduction to Rene Girard's Theory (FRENCH 289E)

Dupuy, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 291
Literature of Rage and Resilience (JEWISHST 290)

Shemtov, V. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Thursday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

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

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

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM

COMPLIT 299
Individual Work

2025 - 2026
Spring

COMPLIT 299
Individual Work

Saldivar, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

COMPLIT 306
Critical Humanism in the Life and Works of Edward Said: Philology, Power, and Palestine (CSRE 306)

2025 - 2026
Spring

COMPLIT 311
Ottoman and Modern Turkish Translation Workshop

Karahan, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday 4:30 PM- 6:20 PM

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

2025 - 2026
Spring

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

2025 - 2026
Winter

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

Dorin, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Wednesday 12:00 PM- 1:15 PM

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

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM

COMPLIT 332
The Transoceanic Renaissance (ENGLISH 210, ENGLISH 310)

Greene, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 342C
Close Reading: History, Theory, Practice (COMPLIT 242C, ENGLISH 242C, GERMAN 242C, GERMAN 342C)

Pao, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Wednesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 346
Comparative Literature Pro-seminar

Key, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 347
Difficult Texts

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

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

Galietti, A. (TA)
Key, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday 9:30 AM- 10:20 AM

COMPLIT 349
Living Through Catastrophe (COMPLIT 146)

Karakurt, H. (TA)
Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

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

Surwillo, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
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)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday 11:30 AM- 2:20 PM

COMPLIT 372
Tristan and Isolde: Love and the Shaping of Desire (COMPLIT 272, GERMAN 272, GERMAN 372)

Starkey, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Wednesday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

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

Berchi, G. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Wednesday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 379
Literature and the Practice of Freedom (COMPLIT 279, GERMAN 279, GERMAN 379)

Eshel, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Friday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

COMPLIT 383F
Recovering Lost Voices: French and Francophone Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present (COMPLIT 283F, FEMGEN 283F, FEMGEN 383F, FRENCH 283, FRENCH 383)

Kong, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Thursday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 387
From the Ruins: Art, Literature, and Thought ca. 1945 and Beyond (COMPLIT 187)

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

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

COMPLIT 397
Graduate Studies Colloquium

Greene, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 397
Graduate Studies Colloquium

Greene, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 397
Graduate Studies Colloquium

Greene, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

COMPLIT 398L
Literary Lab (ENGLISH 398L)

Algee-Hewitt, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

COMPLIT 398L
Literary Lab (ENGLISH 398L)

Algee-Hewitt, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

COMPLIT 398L
Literary Lab (ENGLISH 398L)

Algee-Hewitt, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

COMPLIT 399
Individual Work

Barletta, V. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

COMPLIT 399
Individual Work

Barletta, V. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

COMPLIT 399
Individual Work

Barletta, V. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

COMPLIT 399
Individual Work

Barletta, V. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Summer

COMPLIT 802
TGR Dissertation

Barletta, V. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

COMPLIT 802
TGR Dissertation

Barletta, V. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

COMPLIT 802
TGR Dissertation

Barletta, V. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

COMPLIT 802
TGR Dissertation

Barletta, V. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Summer

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