Courses

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Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day & Time

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 316)

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Wednesday
11:30 AM
- 12:20 PM

COMPLIT 316
Scholarship and Activism (CSRE 316)

Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Wednesday
11:30 AM
- 12:20 PM

COMPLIT 316
Scholarship and Activism (CSRE 316)

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)

Parker, P. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday
6:00 PM
- 8:50 PM

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
The Gothic in Literature and Culture (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 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)

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 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

DLCL 301
The Learning and Teaching of Second Languages

Bernhardt-Kamil, E. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Monday
8:30 AM
- 10:20 AM

DLCL 311
Professional Workshop

Ilchuk, Y. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Thursday
4:30 PM
- 6:20 PM

DLCL 312
Pitching and Publishing in Popular Media (ENGLISH 318, FEMGEN 312F)

Goode, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Friday
10:30 AM
- 12:20 PM

DLCL 324
The Enlightenment (HISTORY 234, HISTORY 334)

2024 - 2025
Winter

DLCL 333
Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts Core Seminar (ENGLISH 333, MUSIC 332, PHIL 333)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

DLCL 333
Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts Core Seminar (ENGLISH 333, MUSIC 332, PHIL 333)

2024 - 2025
Winter

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

Surwillo, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday
4:30 PM
- 6:20 PM

FRENCH 315C
War, Love, and Other Games: Play and Violence in the Middle Ages (FRENCH 215C, HISTORY 215C, HISTORY 315C, ITALIAN 215C, ITALIAN 315C)

Phillips, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
- 4:20 PM

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

Galvez, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Thursday
1:30 PM
- 4:20 PM

FRENCH 338
The Gothic in Literature and Culture (COMPLIT 338)

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

2024 - 2025
Winter

Thursday
12:00 PM
- 2:50 PM

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

Seck, F. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
- 2:50 PM

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

Wittman, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
- 4:20 PM

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

Dupuy, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday
1:30 PM
- 4:20 PM

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

Surwillo, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday
4:30 PM
- 6:20 PM

FRENCH 379
Cinema and The Real: The French New Wave and the Quest for the Truth (FRENCH 279)

Alduy, C. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday
3:00 PM
- 5:50 PM

FRENCH 389
Liberte, Egalite, Laicite: French Political Myths and Concepts (FRENCH 289)

Alduy, C. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday
3:00 PM
- 5:50 PM

FRENCH 392
Women in Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema (FEMGEN 192, FILMEDIA 112, FRENCH 192)

Alduy, C. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
- 2:50 PM

FRENCH 802
TGR Dissertation

Alduy, C. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

FRENCH 802
TGR Dissertation

Alduy, C. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

FRENCH 802
TGR Dissertation

Alduy, C. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

GERMAN 323
Looted Art: Histories and Restitution (GERMAN 223)

Brus, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday
1:30 PM
- 4:20 PM

GERMAN 324
German Speaking Women Philosophers (GERMAN 224)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Monday
1:30 PM
- 4:20 PM

GERMAN 330
German Literature (800-1700) (GERMAN 230)

Starkey, K. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday
1:30 PM
- 4:20 PM

GERMAN 331
German Literature (1700-1900) (GERMAN 231)

Berman, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
- 4:20 PM

GERMAN 332
German Literature 3: Modernity and the Unspeakable (GERMAN 232)

Pao, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Thursday
1:30 PM
- 4:20 PM

GERMAN 341
Contemporary German Literature

George, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Thursday
1:30 PM
- 4:20 PM

GERMAN 346
German Theater from Schiller to Brecht (GERMAN 246, TAPS 246, TAPS 346)

Smith, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Tuesday
12:00 PM
- 2:50 PM

GERMAN 367
Prospects for Transatlantic Relations: What Holds the West Together? (GERMAN 267)

Huether, M. (PI)
Berman, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

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

Surwillo, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday
4:30 PM
- 6:20 PM

GERMAN 396
German Studies Lecture Series

Bernhardt-Kamil, E. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday
11:30 AM
- 1:20 PM

GERMAN 396
German Studies Lecture Series

Bernhardt-Kamil, E. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday
11:30 AM
- 1:20 PM

GERMAN 396
German Studies Lecture Series

Bernhardt-Kamil, E. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Tuesday
11:30 AM
- 1:20 PM

GERMAN 397
Graduate Studies Colloquium

Starkey, K. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday
6:00 PM
- 7:50 PM

GERMAN 397
Graduate Studies Colloquium

Starkey, K. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday
6:00 PM
- 7:50 PM

GERMAN 397
Graduate Studies Colloquium

Starkey, K. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Monday
6:00 PM
- 7:50 PM

GERMAN 802
TGR Dissertation

Berman, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

GERMAN 802
TGR Dissertation

Berman, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

GERMAN 802
TGR Dissertation

Berman, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

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

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

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
- 4:20 PM

ILAC 320
Neoliberal Entanglements: Polycrisis in Contemporary Cinema from Spain

Surwillo, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

ILAC 332
1640: Year of Revolution (ILAC 232)

Barletta, V. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
- 2:50 PM

ILAC 343
Masterpieces: 19th Century Iberia

Surwillo, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Wednesday
3:00 PM
- 5:50 PM

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

Saldivar, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday
3:00 PM
- 5:50 PM

ILAC 680
Curricular Practical Training

2024 - 2025
Autumn

ILAC 680
Curricular Practical Training

2024 - 2025
Winter

ILAC 680
Curricular Practical Training

2024 - 2025
Spring

ILAC 802
TGR Dissertation

Barletta, V. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

ILAC 802
TGR Dissertation

Barletta, V. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

ILAC 802
TGR Dissertation

Barletta, V. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

ITALIAN 300
Italian Lecture Series (ITALIAN 200)

Giorgetti, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
- 4:20 PM

ITALIAN 300
Italian Lecture Series (ITALIAN 200)

Giorgetti, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Wednesday
1:30 PM
- 4:20 PM

ITALIAN 315A
The Italian Renaissance, or the Art of Success (ARTHIST 115, ARTHIST 315, ITALIAN 115A)

2024 - 2025
Spring

ITALIAN 315C
War, Love, and Other Games: Play and Violence in the Middle Ages (FRENCH 215C, FRENCH 315C, HISTORY 215C, HISTORY 315C, ITALIAN 215C)

Phillips, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
- 4:20 PM

ITALIAN 332B
Heretics, Prostitutes and Merchants: The Venetian Empire (HISTORY 332B)

2024 - 2025
Winter

ITALIAN 333
The Trial of Galileo: Science, Politics, and Religion (HISTORY 235D, HISTORY 335D, ITALIAN 233, RELIGST 235X)

Findlen, P. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday
1:30 PM
- 4:20 PM

ITALIAN 338
How Stories are Told: from Arabian Nights to Boccaccio and Shakespeare (ITALIAN 238)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

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

Wittman, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
- 4:20 PM

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

Surwillo, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday
4:30 PM
- 6:20 PM

ITALIAN 393
Dante's World

Berchi, G. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Wednesday
10:30 AM
- 1:20 PM

ITALIAN 801
TGR Project

Wittman, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

ITALIAN 801
TGR Project

Wittman, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

ITALIAN 802
TGR Dissertation

Alduy, C. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

ITALIAN 802
TGR Dissertation

Alduy, C. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

ITALIAN 802
TGR Dissertation

Alduy, C. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

SLAVIC 327
Boris Pasternak and the Poetry of the Russian Avant-garde

Fleishman, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Thursday
3:00 PM
- 5:50 PM

SLAVIC 329
Russian Versification: Poetry as System (SLAVIC 129)

Fleishman, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
- 1:20 PM

SLAVIC 343
Readings in Ukrainian Literature

Ilchuk, Y. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday
3:00 PM
- 4:50 PM

SLAVIC 344
Socialist Realism (SLAVIC 144)

Kukulin, I. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday Wednesday
11:30 AM
- 12:50 PM

SLAVIC 345E
Survey of Russian Literature: The Age of Experiment (REES 345C, SLAVIC 145)

Fleishman, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
9:00 AM
- 10:20 AM

SLAVIC 346
Russian Novel Decolonized (SLAVIC 146)

Ilchuk, Y. (PI)
Ovcharskaia, O. (TA)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
- 2:50 PM

SLAVIC 347
Modern Russian Literature and Culture: The Age of War and Revolution (SLAVIC 147)

Virker, A. (PI)
Lawton, D. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
- 2:50 PM

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

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

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
- 4:20 PM

SLAVIC 379
Literature from Medieval Rus' and Early Modern Russia (SLAVIC 179)

Camisa Morale, E. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
- 11:50 AM

SLAVIC 387
Classical Russian Poetry (SLAVIC 187)

Fleishman, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
9:00 AM
- 10:20 AM

SLAVIC 802
TGR Dissertation

Greenleaf, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

SLAVIC 802
TGR Dissertation

Greenleaf, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

SLAVIC 802
TGR Dissertation

Greenleaf, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

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