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UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

Summer 2008
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature

Spring 2008
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature
Cross Listed Courses Originating in Other Departments

Fall 2007
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature
Cross Listed Courses Originating in Other Departments

Summer 2007
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature

Spring 2007
Courses Originating
in Comparative Literature
Cross Listed Courses Originating in Other Departments

Fall 2006
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature
Cross Listed Courses Originating in Other Department

Summer 2006
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature

Spring 2006
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature
Cross Listed Courses Originating in Other Departments

Fall 2005
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature
Cross Listed Courses
Originating in Other Departments


Summer 2005

Courses Originating in Comparative Literature

Spring 2005
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature
Cross Listed Courses Originating in Other Departments

Fall 2004
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature
Cross Listed Courses Originating in Other Departments

Summer 2004
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature

 
 
 
Spring 2004
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature
Cross Listed Courses Originating in Other Department
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fall 2003
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature
Cross Listed Courses Originating in Other Departments

Summer 2003
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature
Cross Listed Courses Originating in Other Departments

Spring 2003
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature
Cross Listed Courses Originating in Other Departments

Fall 2002
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature
Cross Listed Courses Originating in Other Departments

Summer 2002
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature
Cross Listed Courses Originating in Other Departments

Spring 2002
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature
Cross-Listed Courses Originating in Other Departments

Fall 2001
Courses Originating in Comparative Literature
Cross-Listed Courses Originating in Other Departments

Summer 2001
Courses Originating in Compartive Literature

Spring 2001
Course Originating in Comparative Literature
Cross Listed Courses Originating in Other Departments

Fall 2000
Course Originating in Comparative Literature
Cross Listed Courses Originating in Other Departments


 

Summer 2008: Courses Originating in Comp Lit

Session I: 5/19/08-6/27/08

Terrorism in Literature and Film
CANCELLED
Bot
Tues/Wed/Thurs 1:15-3:25, 4 pts.
V29.0190.001, V30.0190

description

Topics in Film and Literature: Contest and Conspiracy:
The Symbolic and Allegorical in Post-Mao Chinese Cinema

CANCELLED
He
Tues/Wed/Thurs 3:30-5:40, 4 pts.
V29.0300.001, V30.0306

description

Session 2: 6/30/08-8/8/08

MALE: Masculinity in Twentieth Century Fiction
Lukes
Mon/Tues/Wed 3:30-5:40
V29.0136.001, V41.0800

description

Love, Loneliness, and the Creative Urge
Matthias
Mon/Tues/Wed 1:15-3:25
V29.0125.001

description


Spring 2008: Courses Originating in Comp Lit

Topics in Caribbean Literature: Caribbean Literature & THE TEMPEST
Brathwaite
Mon/Thurs 9:30-10:45, 4pts.
V29.0132, V18.0780, V41.0770

Topics in 20th Cent. Lit: Culture, Policy, and Artistic Production in Africa
Diawara
Tues 3:30-6:10, 4 pts.
V29.0190.001, V18.0715
description

Intro to Comparative Literature: Promiscuous Readers, Worldly Texts
Dopico
Tues 3:30-6:10, 4 pts.
V29.0116.001
description
Plus Recitation:

V29.0116.002: Thurs 2:00-3:15 Hoffman-Schwartz
V29.0116.003: Thurs 3:30-4:45 Bot
V29.0116.004: Thurs 4:45-6:10 Potocki

Topics in 20th Cent. Lit.: Cosmopolitanism & Rural/Urban Spaces
Halim
Mon 12:30-3:15, 4 pts.
V29.0190.002, V77.0190.001
description

Junior Theory Seminar: Modernity
Iampolski
Mon/Wed 3:30-4:45, 4 pts.
V29.0200
description

Topics in Film and Literature: Foreign Correspondence
Ross
Wed 12:30-3:15, 4 pts.
V29.0300
description
Permission of instructor required.

Readings in Contemporary Literary Theory: Outrageous Texts
Ronell
Mon/Wed 11:00-12:15, 4 pts.
V29.0843
description

 

Spring 2008: Cross Listed Courses

Modernist Poetry
Borenstein
Mon/Wed 11:00-12:15, 4 pts.
V91.0810.001, V29.0810
(Originates in Russian & Slavic Studies; Taught in English)

The German Intellectual Tradition: Friendship
Siegel
Mon/Wed 3:30-4:45
V51.0244; V29.0244
(Originates in German; Taught in English)

Theory of the Avant-Garde
Groys
Tues/Thurs 2:00-3:15, 4 pts.
V91.0841, V29.0841
(Originates in Russian & Slavic Studies; Taught in English)

20th Century Chinese Lit in Translation
Jiang
Mon/Wed 4:55-6:10, 4 pts.
V33.0731, V29.0731

 

Fall 2007: Courses Originating in Comp Lit

Junior Theory Seminar: Guilt, Desire, and the Law
Basterra
Tues 3:30-6:10, 4 pts.
V29.0200, V95.0951
description

Topics in Caribbean Literature: PiXie SycoraX and Stark
Brathwaite
Mon/Thurs 9:30-10:45, 4pts.
V29.0132, V18.0780, V41.0770

Senior Seminar in Comp Lit: Honors Thesis
Chioles
Mon 3:30-6:10, 4 pts.

V29.0400
description

Fiction Before the Novel
Javitch
Mon/Wed 2:00-3:15, 4 pts.
V29.0135, V65.0135
description

Reading and Representation in Early Modern Europe
Lezra
Wed 3:30-6:10, 4 pts.
V29.0151
description

Studies in Prose Genres: The Novel
Ruttenburg
Wed 11:00-1:45
V29.0125
description

Evolution of Literary Archetypes: Comparative Romanticisms
Sieburth
Tues/Thurs 11:00-12:15
V29.0104
description


Fall 2007: Cross Listed Courses
(Except for Prof. Halim's course, the following courses DO NOT count as Comp Lit CORE courses)

Love, War and Politics in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Coller
Tues/Thurs 11:00-12:15, 4 pts.
V65.0983; V29.0980
(Originating in MARC)
description

Introduction to Post-Colonial Studies
Gajarawala/Watson
TBA
V29.0780; V41.0780
(Originates in English)
description

Travel Literature
Halim
Wed 2-4:45, 4 pts.
V77.0757, V29.0757
(Originating in MEIS)

 


Summer 2007: Courses Originating in Comparative Literature

Session I

Topics in 20th Century Literature: Visuality and Literature
Cayer CANCELLED
Tues, Wed, Thurs, 1:15-3:25, 4 pts.
V29.0190.001

Topics in Popular Culture: Crime Fiction
Celik
Tues, Wed, Thurs, 9:15-11:25, 4 pts.
V29.0136

description

Representing Islam
Bahoora CANCELLED
Tues, Wed, Thurs, 3:30-5:40, 4 pts.
V29.0190.002
description


Session II

Love, Lonliness, and the Creative Urge
Matthias
Mon, Tues, Wed, 1:15-3:25, 4pts.
V29.0125.001
description

Globalization and the Politics of Blood
Myambo
Mon, Tues, Wed, 3:30-5:40
V29.0190.003
description

 


Spring 2007: Courses Originating in Comp Lit

Readings in Contemporary Literary Theory: The History of Literary Theory
Apter
Tues 2-4:30, 4pts.
V29.0843
description

Topics in Caribbean Literature: Ancestors
Brathwaite
Mon/Thurs 9:30-10:45, 4pts.
V29.0132.001, V18.0780, V41.0770.001

Junior Theory Seminar: Text and Its Meaning
Iampolski
Mon/Wed 3:30-4:45,4pts.
V29.0200

Intro to Comp Lit: World Literature and Culture
Ross
Wed 11-1:30, 4pts.
V29.0116.001
description

Plus Recitation:

Leary
Mon 9:30-10:45
V29.0116.002

Love
Mon 11-12:15
V29.0116.003

Bahoora
Mon 12:30-1:45
V29.0116.004

Studies in Prose Genres: Autobiography: Poetics and Politics
Vatulescu
Mon 12:30-3:15, 4pts.
V29.0125.001
description

Studies in Prose Genres: Theory of the Novel
Vincent
Tues 2-4:30, 4pts.
V29.0125.002
description




Spring 2007: Courses Originating in Other Departments
(NOTE: These Courses DO NOT Count as Comp Lit Core Courses)

Special Topics in German Cinema: European Avant Garde Cinema
Blankenship
Mon/Wed 3:30-4:45, 4pts.
V51.0253, V29.0253

Experiments in Realism: World Literature in English
Gajarawala
Thurs 2-4:45, 4 pts.
V41.0975.001 ; V29.0975
description

Special Topics: Theories of Symbolic Exchange
Groys
Tues/Thurs 2-3:15, 4pts.
V91.0810, V29.0810
(Originates in Russian & Slavic Studies; Taught in English)

Topics in Modern Arabic Culture: Globalization and the Middle East
Halim
Tues 2-4:45, 4pts.
V77.0798, V29.0798
(Originates in MEIS, department permission required; Taught in English)

Topics: Idealization and Satire in the Sixteenth Century
Krabbenhoft
Tues 3:30-6:10, 4pts.
V95.0950.002, V29.0955.001
(Originates in Spanish; Taught in English)

Readings in Contemporary Literary Theory: Emergency, Dictatorship, Coup
Watson
Mon/Wed 11-12:15, 4 pts.
V41.0735.001, V29.0843.002
(Originates in English)
description


Fall 2006: Courses Originating in Comp Lit

Readings in Contemporary Literary Theory: Guilt, Desire & the Law
Basterra
Tues 3:30-6:10, 4pts.
V29.0843, V95.0951, V41.0735.002
description

Topics in Carribean Literature: Ancestors
Brathwaite
Mon/Wed 9:30-10:45, 4pts.
V29.0132.001, V18.0780.001, V41.0770.001

Senior Seminar in Comp Lit: Honors Thesis
Chioles
Mon. 3:30-6:10, 4pts.
V29.0400

description

African Literature: Arts, Literature and Film in Post Colonial Africa
Diawara
Tues. 3:30-6:10, 4 pts.
V29.0844

description

Intro to Comp Lit: Theories & Literature of Globalization
Sanders
Wed 2:00-4:45, 4pts.
V29.0116
description

NEW!
Topics in Film and Literature: Films about Film
Vatulescu
Mon/Wed 12:30-1:45, plus Friday 2-4:00 screening, 4pts.
V29.0300
description

Topics in 20th Century Literature: (Counter) Narratives of Modernity:
The Arabic Novel
Bahoora
Mon/Wed 12:30-1:45
V29.0190, V41.0190
desciption

Topics in Carribean Literature: Carribean Novel & "Philosophy of History"
Love
Tues/Thurs 11:00-12:15
, 4pts.
V29.0132.002, V18.0780.002 , V41.0770.002
description


Fall 2006: Courses Originating in Other Departments
(NOTE: EXCEPT FOR PROF. VINCENT AND PROF. ZHANG'S CLASSES, THE FOLLOWING COURSES DO NOT COUNT AS COMP LIT CORE COURSES)

Contemporary Central & Eastern European Literature
Borenstein
Mon/Wed 2:00-3:15, 4pts.
V91.0832, V29.0832
Originates in Russian & Slavic, Taught in English

Topics: Genre Studies: Social Realism
Gajarawala
Thurs 11:00-1:45, 4pts.
V41.0972.002, V29.0972.001

Originates in English

Sexuality and Subjectivity in Modern Japanese Literature
Vincent
Mon/Wed 3:30-4:45, 4 pts.
V33.0621, V29.0621
Originates in East Asian Studies, Taught in English

NEW!
Chinese Modernism in an International Context
Zhang
Wed 6:30-9:00, 4 pts.
V33.0300; V29.0723
715 Broadway, Room 312
Originates in East Asian Studies, Taught in English


Summer 2006: Courses Originating in Comp Lit

Art or Life? Love, Loneliness, and the Creative Urge
Mathias
Session 2
Mon/Tue/Wed 1:15-3:25, 4pts.
V29.0125
description

African Venuses and Dancehall Queens: De-Ciphering the Black Woman's Body
McMorris
Session 1
Mon/Tue/Wed 1:15-3:25, 4pts.
V29.0830; V97.0200; V11.0800
description

Topics in 20th Century Literature: Contesting Diaspora: Blood Fictions
Myambo
Session 2

Mon/Tues/Wed 3:30-5:40, 4pts.
V29.0190

description

Topics in Film and Literature: Modern & Postmodern Representations of Tribulated Youth: Sparagmos of the Bildungsroman!
Pezzini
Session 2
Tue/Wed/Thu 9:15-11:25, 4pts.
V29.0300; V30.0306
description

A Brief History of Sexuality: From Sexology to the Digital Age
Vitale
Session 1
Mon/Tue/Wed 3:30-5:40, 4pts.

V29.0136; V97.0136
description


Spring 2006: Courses Originating in Comp Lit

Junior Theory Seminar: Modernity
Iampolski
Mon/Wed 12:30-1:45, 4pts.
V29.0200
description

Shakespeare's Adaptations of his Sources
Javitch
Tue/Thurs 2:00-3:15, 4pts.
V29.0155; V41.0403; V65.0155
Permission of Instructor required
description

Introduction to Comp Lit: Island Literature
Ross
Mon 2:00-4:30, 4pts.
V29.0116

description

Comp Lit Senior Seminar: Honors Thesis
Vincent
Wed 3:30-6:10, 4pts.
V29.0400
description

Topics in 20th Century Literature: Vision, Visuality, and Literature
Cayer
Mon/Wed 11:00-12:15, 4pts.
V29.0190
description

Topics in Popular Culture: Migrant and Residual: Other Narratives of Europe
Celik
Tue/Thurs 11:00-12:15
, 4pts.
V29.0136
description


Spring 2006 : Courses Originating in Other Departments
(NOTE: THE FOLLOWING COURSES DO NOT COUNT AS COMP LIT CORE COURSES)

Topics in German Cinema: Early Cinema
Blankenship
Tue/Thu 2:00-3:15, 4pts.
V51.0253; V29.0253
Originates in German, taught in English

Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
Fleming
Tue/Thu 3:30-4:45, 4pts.
V51.0240; V29.0244
Originates in German, taught in English

Theory of the Avant-Garde
Groys
Tue/Thurs 2:00-3:15, 4pts.
V91.0841.001; V29.0841
Originates in Russian and Slavic Studies, taught in English

Latino Literature in the United States
Pratt/Rosaldo
Wed 3:30-6:10, 4pts.
V95.0755; V29.0755
Originates in Spanish and Portuguese, taught in English

20th Century Chinese Literature in Translation
Zhang
Mon. 11:00-1:30
V
33.0731; V29.0731
Originates in East Asian Studies, taught in English


Fall 2005: Courses Originating in Comp Lit

South by South: Ideological Maps and the Fictions of Uneven Development
Dopico
Wed 3:30-6:10, 4pts.
V29.0300
description

Fiction Before the Novel
Javitch
Mon/Wed 2:00-3:15, 4pts.
V29.0135, V65.0135
description

Topics in 20th Century Literature: Reading the Middle East: The Individual and History in the Arabic Novel
Kaplan
Tues/Thurs 11:00-12:15, 4pts.
V29.0190.001

description

Topics in 20th Century Literature: Narratives of (Un)Belonging: Literatures of Migration
Myambo
Tues/Thurs 2:00-3:15, 4pts.
V29.0190.002
description

Snakes and Ladders: Ambition and Corruption in the Realist Novel
Ross
Mon/Wed 11:00-12:15
V29.0125.002
description

Colonialism and the Rise of Modern African Literature: Southern African Literature Apartheid and After
Sanders
Tues/Thurs 3:30-4:45
, 4pts.
V29.0850; V41.0707
description

Introduction to Comparative Literature: Comparative Romanticisms
Sieburth
Mon/Wed 12:30-1:45
, 4pts.
V29.0116
description

Studies in Prose Genres: Constructing Nature in Early Modernity
Tabas
Tues/Thurs 3:30-4:45, 4pts.
V29.0125.001
description

Junior Theory Seminar: Aesthetics, Kant to Heidegger
Zhang
Mon 3:30-6:10
, 4pts.
V29.0200

description

NOTE: MAP course "Conversations of the West: Tragedy" will be taught by Professor Reiss this term. Approval from the Director of Undergraduate Studies may be sought to count this course as a Comp Lit Core course.


Fall 2005: Courses Originating in Other Departments
(NOTE: THE FOLLOWING COURSES DO NOT COUNT AS COMP LIT CORE COURSES)

Modern Criticism and Theory of Literature
Apter
Thurs 2:00-4:45, 4pts.
V45.0863, V29.0863
Originates in French, taught in English




Summer 2005: Courses Originating in Comp Lit

Fiction of the Americas: What is an American? CANCELLED
Apap
Session 1 May 16-June 24
Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs 9:30-11:05, 4pts.
V29.0122
description

Topics in Film and Literature: The Fugitive Road: A Journey through the Americas
Brigido-Corachan
Session 2 June 27-August 5
Mon/Tues/Wed 3:30-5:45, 4pts.
V29.0300, V95.0550.001

description

Studies in Prose Genres: Love, Death, and Dark Secrets
Matthias
Session 2 June 27-August 5
Mon/Tues/Wed 1:15-3:25, 4pts.
V29.0125
description

Topics in 20th Century Literature: African Venuses and Dancehall Queens: De-Ciphering the Black Woman's Body
McMorris
Session 2 June 27-August 5
Mon/Tues/Thurs 10:00-12:10
, 4pts.
V29.0190, V11.0800, V97.0200
description


Spring 2005: Courses Originating in Comp Lit

Studies in Prose Genres: Renaissance Romance: Subversion and Delight
Bearden
Tues/Thurs 11-12:15, 4pts.
V29.0125, V65.0018
description

Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature: Honors Thesis
Chioles
Wed 6:20-8:20PM, 4pts.
V29.0400
description

Topics in 20th Century Literature: Fantasies of Power
Fischer
Tues/Thurs 3:30-4:45, 4pts.
V29.0190.002
description

Fiction of the Americas: The Latin American Leap from Premodernity to Postmodernity
Pezzini
Mon/Wed 9:30-10:45, 4pts.
V29.0122, V95.0551
description

Junior Theory Seminar: The Renaissance Atlantic
Reiss
Tues/Thurs 9:30-10:45AM, 4pts.
V29.0200, V65.0159
description

Topics in 19th Century Lit: Spectacular Cities: Travel, Photography and Exhibitions in the 19th Century
Uslenghi
Mon/Wed 2:00-3:15PM, 4pts.
V29.0180, V99.0181, V51.0297.004
description

Introduction to Comparative Literature: Narrative and its Discontents
Vincent
Wed 3:30-6:10PM, 4pts.
V29.0116
description


Spring 2005: Courses Originating in Other Departments
(NOTE: THE FOLLOWING COURSES DO NOT COUNT AS COMP LIT CORE COURSES)

Contemporary Central and East European Literature
Borenstein
Tues/Thurs 2:00-3:15, 4pts.
V91.0832-001, V29.0832
Originates in Russian and Slavic, taught in English

Topics in 20th Century Literature: Fascism and Sexuality
Clark
M/W 3:30-4:45, 4pts.
V51.0298, V29.0190.001
Originates in German, taught in English

Renaissance Libraries
Dopico-Black
Th 11-1:45., 4pts.
V65.0991, V29.0991
Originates in MARC

Special Studies: The Economy of Symbolic Exchange
Groys
Mon/Wed 2:00-3:15, 4pts.
V29.0810, V91.0810-001
Originates in Russian and Slavic, taught in English

Invisibility and Blackness
McMorris
Mon/Wed 2-3:15, 4pts.
V11.0300, V29.0852
Originates in Africana Studies

Readings in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Roberts
Mon/Wed 12:30-1:45, 4pts.
V33.0722, V29.0722
Originates in East Asian Studies, taught in English

The German Intellectual Tradition: Friendship
Siegel
T/Th 3:30-4:45, 4pts.
V51.0244, V29.0244
Originates in German, taught in English

German Romance and Epic
Staff
Mon/Wed 4:55-6:10., 4pts.
V65.0801, V29.0800
Originates in MARC


Fall 2004: Courses Originating in Comp Lit

Studies in Prose Genres: "A Citizen of Somewhere Else": Literature & Identity in the Atlantic World 1600-1850
Apap
Tues 2-4:45PM, 4pts.
V29.0125
description

Topics in Caribbean Lit: Cuba, Real & Imagined
Dopico
Wed 3:30-6:10PM, 4pts.
V29.0132, V11.0132

Tpcs in 20th Century Lit: Global Women's Writing
Kaza
Tues/Thurs 9:30-10:45AM, 4pts.
V29.0190.00

description

Tpcs in Pan Africanism: Deconstructing the Structures of Power: Reading Black Women's Writings
McMorris
Mon/Wed 11-12:15PM, 4pts.
V29.0666
description
syllabus

Intro to Comp Lit: Autobiography
Sieburth
Mon/Wed 12:30-1:45PM, 4pts.
V29.0116
description

Junior Theory Seminar: Foundations of Contemporary Cultural Theory: Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud
Zhang
Mon 3:30-6:10PM, 4pts.
V29.0200


Fall 2004: Courses Originating in Other Departments

Studies in Literary Theory: Theorizing Francophonie, from Fanon to Badiou
Apter
Thurs 2:00-4:45PM, 4pts.
V29.0863
Originates in French, taught in English

Tpcs in Spanish Lit: Identity, Sexuality & Power
Basterra
Mon/Wed 3:30-4:45PM, 4pts.
V29.0960, V95.0950
Originates in Spanish; taught in English

Tolkien & Lewis: The Antiquarian Answer to Modernism
Coccaro
Tues/Thurs 2:00-3:15PM, 4pts.
V29.0996; V65.0996
Originates in MARC

Special Studies: The End of History
Groys
Mon/Wed 2:00-3:15PM, 4pts.
V29.0810, V91.0810
Originates in Russian, taught in English

Topics in Spanish Lit: Idealization & Satire in the 16th Century
Krabbenhoft
Tues 3:30-6:10PM
V29.0951; V95.0951

Originates in Spanish, taught in English

Gender, Nation, and the Colonial Condition
Lubin
Tues/Thurs 2:00-3:15PM, 4pts.
V97.0744-001, V29.0744
Originates in Gender and Sexuality

Multi-Cultural Africa: Minority Literatures
Myambo
Mon/Wed 2:00-3:15PM, 4pts.
V29.0852, V11.0300

Originates in Africana Studies
syllabus

20th Century Korean Literature in Translation
Poole
Mon/Wed 3:30-4:45PM, 4pts.
V29.0611
Originates in East Asian Studies

Asian American Literature
Sandhu
Mon/Wed 11:00-12:15PM, 4pts.
V29.0301; V15.0301
Originates in APA

The Court Masque & Renaissance Politics
Salehi
Mon 6:20-7:35PM, 2pts.
V29.0983; V65.0983
Originates in MARC


Summer 2004: Originating in Comp Lit

Topics in Film and Literature: Allegories of the City: Global Mappings of the Urban Landscape [CANCELLED!]
Blanco
Summer Session 1: May 17-June 25
M T W Th 9:30-11:05, 4 pts.
V29.0300.001
description

Introduction to Comparative Literature: Fictions of Discovery: Renaissance Romance Meets Modern Sci-Fi [CANCELLED!]
Bearden
Summer Session 1: May 17-June 25
M T W 1:15-3:25, 4 pts.
V29.0116.001
description

Love, Death, and Dark Secrets: The Diary Novel and Self-Reflectivity
Matthias
Summer Session 2: June 28-August 6
M T W 1:15-3:25, 4 pts.
V29.0125
description

Topics in Film and Literature: The Erotics of Gaze: Desire and the Politics of Looking
Vitale
Summer Session 2: June 28-August 6
M T W 4:00-6:20, 4 pts.
V29.0300.002
description

 
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Spring 2004: Courses Originating in Comp Lit

Topics in Caribbean Lit: GOLOKWATI: footsteps of the poem 2
Brathwaite
Mon/Wed 9:30 - 10:45; 4 pts.
V29.0132; V11.0132; V41.0704
Studies in Prose Genres: Travel Writing: Roots, Routes, and Rootlessness
Calotychos
Tues 2:00-4:30; 4 pts.
V29.0125
description
Readings in Contemporary Lit Theory: The Task of Testimony: Memory of the Other, Aesthetic Knowledge of Pain, and the Event of Testimony
Chang
Mon/Wed 2:00-3:15; 4 pts.
V29.0843.001
description
Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature (Honors Thesis Course)
Chioles
Mon 3:30-6:10; 4 pts.
V29.0400
description
Colonialism and the Rise of Modern African Lit: Questions of Power: Issues and Themes in Colonial & Post-Colonial African Literature
Fulani
Tues 3:30-6:10; 4 pts.
V29.0850; V11.0850; V41.0707
description

Readings in Contemporary Literary Theory: Modernity
Iampolski
Mon/Wed 2:00-3:15; 4 pts.
V29.0843.002
description

Topics in 20th Century Lit: Revolution and the Peasantry in Modern Russian and Chinese Literature
Jiang
Mon/Wed 12:30-1:45; 4 pts.
V29.0190.003
description
 
Modernist Fiction: Literature and the Question of Language
Kaiser
Mon/Wed 11:00-12:15; 4 pts.
V29.0115
description
Tragedy
Reiss
Tues/Thurs 9:30-10:45; 4 pts.
V29.0110; V30.0200; V41.0720; V11.0110; H28.0632.001
description
Introduction to Comparative Literature: The Novel
Ruttenburg
Tues/Thurs 11:00-12:15; 4 pts.
V29.0116.001; V41.0116
(see recitation schedule below)
description
 
Introduction to Comparative Literature: The Novel [RECITATIONS]
Kaza
Thurs 2:00-3:15
V29.0116.002
Kaza
Thurs 3:30-4:45
V29.0116.003
 
Kaplan
Fri 9:30-10:45
V29.0116.004
 
Kaplan
Fri 11:00-12:15
V29.0116.005
Topics in 20th Century Lit: Freud as Novelist
Vincent
Wed 3:30-6:10; 4 pts.
V29.0190.001
description
Independent Study
Staff
V29.0997
 
Independent Study
Staff
V29.0998

Spring 2004: Cross-Listed Courses

From 2004 Olympics to 1453 Constantinople: Greece and the Hellenic Ideal in the West
Calotychos
Mon 3:30-6:10; 4pts
Originates in Hellenic Studies
V29.0141; V56.0140
*
Course Proposal Awaiting Approval
 
Latino Literature in the United States
Dopico
Thurs 3:30-6:10; 4 pts.
V29.0755; V95.0755
Originates in Spanish and Portuguese
 
Topics in 19th Century Literature: Intro to Mediocrity
Fleming
Tues/Thurs 3:30-4:45
V29.0180.001; V51.0297.001
Originates in German


Visual Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Iseppi
Mon/Wed 11:00-12:15; 4 pts.
Originates in MARC
V29.0986; V65.0986
 
Women and the Novel: A Phenomena(I) Woman: The Novels and Career of
Toni Morrison
Momplaisir
Tues/Thurs 11:00-12:15; 4 pts.
Originates in Africana Studies
V29.0830; V11.0300
 
Queer Cultures
Vitale
Tues/Thurs 11:00-12:15; 4 pts.
Originates in CSGS
V29.0419; V97.0419
description
Acting Medieval Literature
Vitz
Tues/Thurs 11:00-12:15; 4 pts.
Originates in French
V29.0868; V45.0868

Fall 2003: Courses Originating in Comp Lit

Topics in Caribbean Literature: GOLOKWATI: footsteps of the poem
Brathwaite
Tues/Thurs 11-12:15
V29.0132; V11.0132; V41.0704 
description

Topics in Popular Culture: Mesmerism and the Literary Imagination
Daniels
Mon 3:30- 6:10;  4 pts
V29.0136
description

Topics in 20th Century Lit: Global Women's Writing
Fulani
Wed   3:30-6:10; 4 pts
V29.0190.002; V97.0190.001 
description

CANCELLED: Topics in Caribbean Lit: Plantation, Rhythm, & Resistance 
Fulani
Wed 3:30- 6:10; 4 pts
V29.0132; V11.0132; V41.0704

Topics in 18th Century Lit: Nature on Display: Spectacles of Nature in Modern Life 
Hartendorf-Wallach 
Mon/Wed 9:30- 10:45; 4 pts
V29.0175
description

Topics in 20th Century Lit: Trauma, Crisis Literature, & History
Perry
Thurs 3:30- 6:10; 4 pts
V29.0190; V51.0298 
description

Literatures, Tricksters, & Cultural Exchange
Reiss
Tues/Thurs 9:30-10:45; 4 pts
V29.0137; V11.0137
description

Junior Theory Seminar: Cultural Theory
Ross, K.
Wed 11:00- 1:45; 4 pts
V29.0200
NOTE: permission of the instructor is required
description

Intro to CompLit: Comparative Romanticisms 
Sieburth
Tues/Thurs 2:00- 3:15; 4 pts
V29.0116
description

Readings in Contemporary Literary Theory: Didacticism, Expressionism, & Representation: Traditions in Literary Criticism & Theory
Zhang
Mon 3:30- 6:00; 4 pts
V29.0843
description

Independent Study
Staff
V29.0997

Independent Study
Staff
V29.0998


Fall 2003: Cross-Listed Courses

CANCELLED: Modern Theory & Criticism in Literature
Apter
Thurs 2:00- 4:45;  4 pts
V29.0863; V45.0863
Originates in French

Courting Memory: The Imagined, the Real, and the Self in Francophone and Caribbean Literature
Dash
Wed 11:00- 12:15; 2 pts
V29.0866; V45.0868 
Originates in French

German Intellectual Traditions: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud 
Fleming
Mon/Wed 3:30- 4:45; 4 pts
V29.0244; V51.0244
Originates in German

Interdisciplinary Seminar: Literary & Visual Culture in the English Renaissance
Gilman
Tues 3:30- 6:10; 4 pts
V29.0991; V65.0991
Originates in MARC

Topics in 19th Century Lit: Facts and Fiction in Realist Prose
Hüppauf
Tues/Thurs 12:30- 1:45; 4 pts
V29.0180.001; V51.0297.001
Originates in German

Medieval Epic & Romance: From Siegfried to Tristan
Kardon
Mon/Wed 4:55- 6:10; 4 pts
V29.0800; V65.0801
Originates in MARC

20th Century Korean Literature in Translation 
Poole
Mon/Wed 12:30- 1:45; 4 pts
V29.0611; V33.0611
Originates in East Asian Studies

Asian American Literature 
Sandhu
Mon/ Wed 11:00- 12:15; 4 pts
V29.0301; V41.0716; V15.0301 
Originates in Asian/Pacific/American Studies

Twentieth Century Chinese Literature in Translation: Modern Chinese Essay
Zhang
Wed 12:30 - 3:00
V29.0731; V33.0731
Originates in East Asian Studies
description



Summer 2003: Courses Originating in Comp Lit
CANCELLED: Introduction to Comparative Literature: Fictions of Discovery: Renaissance Romance and Modern Sci Fi.
Bearden
M T W Th 11:30-1:05; 4 pts.
May 19-June 27
V29.0116 
syllabus

CANCELLED: Topics in Literature and Film: Images of the Contemporary World through Cinema
Pascucci
M T W Th 11:30-1:05; 4 pts.
June 30-August 8
V29.0300
syllabus


Summer 2003: Cross-Listed Courses 

Utopia, Apocalypse, and the Millennium
Borenstein
MTR 4:00-6:00 PM; 4 pts.
June 30-August 8
V91.0833; V29.0833
originates in Russian & Slavic


Spring 2003: Courses Originating in Comp Lit

Colonialism and the Rise of Modern African Literature
Ampka
Tue 3:30 - 6:10; 4 pts.
V29.0850; V11:0850; V41.0707
description

Topics in Caribbean Literature: Nation-Language (2) 
Brathwaite
Mon/Wed 9:30 - 10:45; 4 pts.
V29.0131; V11.0132; V41.0704
description

Sentimental Journeys: The Circulation of Sentimental Codes and the Formation of the Novel
Cardoso
Tue/Thur 11:00 - 12:15; 4 pts.
V29.0175
description

Comedy
Chioles
Tue/Thur 11:30 - 12:15; 4 pts.
V29.0111; V41:0725; V30.0205; V56:0111; H28.0632.003
description

Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature (Honors Thesis Course)
Chioles
Tue 3:30 - 6:10; 4 pts.
V29.0400
Permission by DUGS required
description

Topics in 20th Century Literature: Love in Literature and Theory
Just
Mon/Wed 3:30 - 4:45; 4 pts.
V29.0190; V97:0190
description

Intro to Comp Lit: Island Literature
K. Ross
Wed 11:00 - 1:45; 4 pts.
V29.0116
description

Junior Theory Seminar: Theories of the Novel
Vincent
Thur 3:30 - 6:10; 4 pts.
V29.0200
description

Modernist Fiction and Contemporary Queer Studies: Queer Modernisms
Vitale
Mon/Wed 2:00 - 3:15; 4 pts.
V29.0115; V97:0115
description

Topics in Film and Literature: World Cinema:Emergent Mondernisms from the Non-West World
Zhang
Mon/Wed 6:20 - 9:00; 4 pts.
V29.0300.001; V33.0300
Monday: Film Screening
Wednesday: Lecture
Recitation 002   Th-9:30-10:45
Recitation 003   Th-11:00-12:15
Recitation 006   F-9:30-10:45
Recitation 007   F-11:00-12:15
syllabus

Independent Study
Staff
V29.0997.001 or V29.0997.002
Permission of department required



Spring 2003: Cross-Listed Courses

Madness and Genius
Baer
Mon/Wed 11:00-12:15; 4 pts.
V29.0285; V51.0285
originates in German

Topics: Black Atlantic Women's Narratives: Redefining Womanhood
Fulani
Wed 3:30-6:10; 4 pts.
V29.0302; V11.0300
originates in Africana Studies
syllabus

Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Ivry
Tue/Thur 11:00-12:15; 4 pts.
V29.0060; V65.0060
originates in MARS

The Arthurian Legend
Lawrence
Tue/Thur 11:00-12:15; 4 pts.
V29.0825; V65.0825
originates in MARS

Topics in 20th Century Lit: Outrageous Texts
Ronell
Tue/Thur 3:30-4:45; 4 pts.
V29.0190.002; V51.0298.002
originates in German

20th Century Chinese Literature in Translation
Zhang
Tues 12:30-3:00; 4 pts.
V29.0731; V33.0731
originates in EAS


Fall 2002: Courses Originating in Comp Lit

Allegories of the City: Global Mappings of the Urban Landscape
Blanco
Tue/Thur 3:30 - 4:45; 4 pts.
V29.0300
description

Topics in Caribbean Literature: History of the Voice: The Emergence of Nation-Language in Caribbean Lit.
Brathwaite
Mon/Wed 9:30 - 10:45; 4 pts
V29.0132; V11.0132; V41.0704
description

(Re) imagining Indians: Representations of the American Natives in Contemporary Literature and Film.
Brigido-Corachan
Tue/Thur 2:00 - 3:15; 4 pts
V29.0104
**the course title in the catalog is wrong, but all other info is correct**
description

Introduction to Comp. Lit.: Poets, Poetry & Politics
Calotychos
Tue 3:30 - 6:10; 4 pts
V29.0116
description

Topics in 20th Century Lit: Traveling South by South: Regional Tales and Ideological Maps
Dopico
Wed 3:30 - 6:10; 4 pts
V29.0190.001
description

Commonalities, Continuities and Recombinations: Readings in African & African American Lit.
Fulani
Tue 6:20 - 9:00; 4 pts
V29.0800; V11.0800
description

Readings in Comtemporary Literary Theory: Modernity
Iampolski
Mon/Wed 2:00 - 3:15; 4 pts
V29.0843
description



Fall 2002: Cross-Listed Courses

Age of Romaniticsm
Affron
Tue/Thurs 12:30-1:45; 4 pts.
V29.0501; V45.0501
originates in French

Metaphors of Modern Theatre
Bishop
Tue 3:30 - 4:45; 2 pts.
V29.0822; V45.0822
originates in French

Greek Diaspora: Odyssean Metaphors from Homer to Angelopoulos
Calotychos
Mon 3:30  - 6:10; 4 pts
V56.0444; V29.0444
originates in Hellenic Studies
description

Introduction to Theory
Fleming
Mon/Wed 3:30 - 4:45; 4 pts
V29.0249; V51.0249
originates in German

Asian American Lit: Dreaming American: Asian Writers Imagine America
Gamalinda
Wed 3:30 - 6:10; 4 pts
V29.0301; V15.0301
originates in Asian/Pacific American Studies

Topics in 20th Century Lit: WWI in Literature
Huppauf
Tue/Thur 3:30 - 4:45; 4 pts
V29.0190.002; V51.0298
originates in German

Medieval & Renaissance Gardens
Iseppi
Wed 2:00 - 3:15; 2 pts
V29.0993; V65.0993
originates in MARS

The Arabian Nights
Kennedy
Tue/Thur 2:00 - 3:15; 4 pts
V29.0716; V77.0716
originates in MES

Topics: Literature of Displacement: Politics of Blood
Myambo
Tue/Thur 2:00 - 3:15; 4 pts
V29.0852; V11.0300
originates in Africana Studies
description
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Summer 2002: Courses Originating in Comparative Literature

Session I  (May 20-June 28:)

Topics in 20th Century Literature:
 Goin' Down the River/Doing Time:
Prison  Literature and the Prison Experience
Mills
M T W  Th  11:30-1:05; 4 pts
V29.0190.001 
description

Session II  (July 1-August 9)

Sex and Sexuality in Black Literature
King
M, T, W, Th  11:30-1:05; 4 pts.
V29.0190.002, V11.0190 
description



Summer 2002: Cross-Listed Courses Originating in Other Departments

Arthurian Legend: King Arthur from 12th to 21st Century
Lawrence
July 1 - August 9: M, T, Th 10 - 12:10; 4pts
V29. 0825, V41.0717, V65.0800, V90.0800,V45.0813 
originates in MARS



Spring 2002: Courses Originating in Comp Lit

Topics in Caribbean Lit: Caribbean Childhood(s)
Brathwaite
Mon & Wed, 9:30-10:45 am; 4 pts
V29.0132, V11.0132, V41.0704
description

Introduction to Comparative Literature: Literature and Space
Cohen
Mon & Wed, 12:30-1:45 pm; 4 pts
V29.0116
description

Readings in Contemporary Literary Theory: Modernity
Iampolski
Mon & Wed, 3:30-4:45 pm; 4 pts
V29.0843.002
description

Fiction Before the Novel
Javitch
at La Pietra, NYU Florence; 4pts
V29.9135
description

Literature and Culture of the Italian Renaissance
Javitch
at La Pietra, NYU Florence; 4 pts
V29.9151

Colonialism and the Rise of Modern African Literature
Ngugi
Tuesdays 3:30-6:10 pm; 4 pts
V29.0850, V11.0850, V41.0707
description

Topics in 18th Century Literature: Virtue, Happiness & the Novel
Norton
Thursdays 3:30-6:10 pm; 4 pts
V29.0175

Readings in Contemporary Literary Theory: Literature & Philosophy
Pascucci
Tue & Thu, 11:00 am-12:15 pm; 4 pts
V29.0843.001, V51.0248
(preliminary syllabus)

Tragedy
Reiss
Tue & Thu 9:30-10:45 am; 4 pts
V29.0110, V30.0200, V41.0720, H28.0632
description

Topics in 20th Century Literature: Women Writers & the Historical Imagination
Tanenbaum
Mon & Wed, 11:00 am-12:15 pm; 4 pts
V29.0190; V97.0190
(description)

Independent Study
V29.0997.001, V29.0997.002



Spring 2002: Cross-listed Courses Originating in Other Departments

Narrative, History and Fiction in the Modern Greek Novel
Calotychos
Mondays 3:30-6:00 pm; 4 pts
V29.0190.002, V56.0190.002
Originates in Hellenic Studies; taught in English

From Classicism to Afrocentrism: Greece in the Eyes of the West
Calotychos
day and time TBA; 4 pts.
V29.0444, V56.0444
Originates in Hellenic Studies; taught in English

Man & Machine
Professor Paul Fleming
Tue & Thurs 11am - 12:15 pm; 4 pts
V29.0180.001; V51.0297.001
Originates in German; taught in English
description

Masterpieces of Islamic Literature
Khoury
Tue & Thu, 3:30-4:45 pm; 4 pts
V29.0710, V77.0710, V65.0710
Originates in MES

Central & Eastern European Lit & Film
Labov
Tues & Thurs 3:30-4:45. 4 pts.
V29.0832; V91.0832
Originates in Russian & Slavic studies, taught in English
description

Arthurian Legend
Lawrence
Tue & Thurs 11 am  - 12:15 pm; 4 pts
V29.0825, V41.0717, V65.0800, V90.0800
Originates in MARS

Undercover Autobiography -  Life as Literature
E. Meyer
Tue & Thurs 2pm -3:15pm; 4 pts
V29.0180.002; V51.0297.002 
Originates in German, taught in English
description

Literature and Society in the Arab World
Mikhail
Mon & Wed, 3:30-4:45 pm; 4 pts
V29.0711, V77.0711; Originates in MES

The Cultural Legacy of Mao's China (1949-76): Socialist Realism & Revlutionary Mass Culture
Zhang
Wed  12:30-3:00 pm; 4 pts
V29.0731, V33.0731;originates in East Asian Studies


Fall 2001: Courses Originating in Comp Lit

Topics in Caribbean Lit: Sista Stark: Caliban's Sister in Developing Caribbean Literature
Brathwaite
Mon & Wed, 9:30-10:45 am; 4 points
V29. 0132, V11.0132, V41.0704
(description)

Twentieth Century Balkans and Balkanization through Film & Literature
Calotychos
Tue, 3:30-6:10 pm; 4 points
V29.0193, V56.0193
(description)

Development of the Novel: The Novel & the Sea
Cohen
Mon & Wed, 12:30-1:45 pm; 4 points
V29.0114, V41.0727
(description)

Readings in Contemporary Literary Theory: Global Culture Theory  (CANCELLED; see alternative Dallal course below)
Abboushi
Tue, 12:30-3:00 pm; 4 points
V29.0843, V77.0844
(description)

Literature of the Americas: Women's Self-Figuration
Gonzalez
Tue & Thu, 3:30-4:45 pm; 4 points
V29.0122; V97.0122

Studies in Prose Genres: Science and the Literary Imagination
(New for Fall 2001, not in Directory of Classes)
Johnson
Mon & Wed, 3:30-4:45 pm; 4 points
V29.0125.002

Introduction to Comparative Literature: Urban Literature
K. Ross
Wed, 11:00 am-1:30 pm; 4 points
V29.0116
(provisional syllabus)

Studies in Prose Genres: Writing the Self: Studies in Autobiography
Ruttenburg
Tue & Thu, 9:30-10:45 am; 4 points
V29.0125.001, V41.0726
(description)

Theory of the Avant-Garde: Women & Modernism: Writing for Their Lives
(New for Fall 2001, not in Directory of Classes)
Trubikhina
Tue & Thu, 11:00 am-12:15 pm; 4 points
V29.0841; V97.0841

Independent Study
V29.0997.001, V29.0997.002


Fall 2001: Cross-listed Courses Originating in Other Departments

Women and War: Contemporary Arabic Lit & Film
(counts as Comp Lit core course)
Abboushi
Tuesdays 12:30-3:15
V29.0714, V77.0714  Originates in MES
(description)

Asian/African Caribbean Literature
King
Tue & Thu, 11:00 am-12:15 pm; 4 points
V29.0801, V15.0800.002; Originates in A/P/A

Asian/American Literature
Staff
Mon & Wed, 11:00 am-12:15 pm; 4 points
V29.0301. V15.0301; Originates in A/P/A

The Arabian Nights
Kennedy
Tue & Thu, 2:00-3:15 pm; 4 points
V29.07196, V77.0716; Originates in Middle Eastern Studies

Medieval & Renaissance Love Lyrics