Comparative Literature Courses

Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day & Time

COMPLIT 11Q
Shakespeare, Playing, Gender

2025 - 2026
Spring

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

Monday 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 83
A Global History of Sexuality Through Cinema (FEMGEN 83, FILMEDIA 83)

Khatua, S. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Summer

Thursday Friday 3:00 PM- 5:00 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?

Akova, E. (PI)
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)
Karakurt, H. (TA)

2025 - 2026
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)
Varteresian, W. (TA)

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 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)
Angelus, L. (TA)
Woszczak, V. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday 12:00 PM- 1:20 PM

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

Chen, K. (PI)

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)
Sparling, R. (TA)
Virker, A. (TA)

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 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 (COMPLIT 372, ENGLISH 272, ENGLISH 372, GERMAN 272, GERMAN 372)

Starkey, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Friday 1:30 PM- 4:20 PM

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

Salari Sardari, M. (PI)

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, ENGLISH 279A, ENGLISH 379A, 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)

Wells, K. (GP)
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, POLISCI 289E, RELIGST 289X)

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)

Hodali, S. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Wednesday 3:00 PM- 5:50 PM

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 (COMPLIT 272, ENGLISH 272, ENGLISH 372, GERMAN 272, GERMAN 372)

Starkey, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Friday 1:30 PM- 4:20 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, ENGLISH 279A, ENGLISH 379A, 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)

Wells, K. (GP)
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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