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This course is intended to train students in skills required by the discipline, help prepare them for a range of futures, and integrate them into the university community.
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Proseminar AS.060.602 (01)
This course is intended to train students in skills required by the discipline, help prepare them for a range of futures, and integrate them into the university community.
Days/Times: Th 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Miller, Andrew
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/8
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.623 (01)
The Sentimental Imagination
T 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Mao, Douglas
Gilman 130D
Fall 2023
This course will explore the literature of sentimentality and theorizations of the sentimental from the eighteenth century to our own moment. A major focus will be the flexibility of the designator “sentimental” (is all writing sentimental?) and relations between sentimentality and related forms and terms (melodrama, excess, affect).
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The Sentimental Imagination AS.060.623 (01)
This course will explore the literature of sentimentality and theorizations of the sentimental from the eighteenth century to our own moment. A major focus will be the flexibility of the designator “sentimental” (is all writing sentimental?) and relations between sentimentality and related forms and terms (melodrama, excess, affect).
Days/Times: T 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Mao, Douglas
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.630 (01)
All That Jazz: African American Literature and Music, Origins through the 1950s
W 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Jackson, Lawrence P
Gilman 130D
Fall 2023
This course examines fiction writing, memoir, poetry, and film that usefully encounters African American writings on jazz music in conversation with the recordings of selected jazz musicians. Beginning with writers who explore the late 19th experience of urban black musical cultures roughly designated “ragtime,” the course will offer a deep engagement with the representations of the “blues” and “swing” music of the long New Negro Movement between 1915 and 1940. The final section of the course considers the post-war novelists and memoirists who charted the emergence of the “Be bop” jazz musician as tragic hero, countermanding New Negro representations of jazz musician and vocalist as entertainers par excellence.
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All That Jazz: African American Literature and Music, Origins through the 1950s AS.060.630 (01)
This course examines fiction writing, memoir, poetry, and film that usefully encounters African American writings on jazz music in conversation with the recordings of selected jazz musicians. Beginning with writers who explore the late 19th experience of urban black musical cultures roughly designated “ragtime,” the course will offer a deep engagement with the representations of the “blues” and “swing” music of the long New Negro Movement between 1915 and 1940. The final section of the course considers the post-war novelists and memoirists who charted the emergence of the “Be bop” jazz musician as tragic hero, countermanding New Negro representations of jazz musician and vocalist as entertainers par excellence.
Days/Times: W 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Jackson, Lawrence P
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/8
PosTag(s): ENGL-GLOBAL
AS.060.659 (01)
Bodies on Stage in Early Modern Drama
F 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Daniel, Andrew
Gilman 130D
Fall 2023
This course analyzes the staging of the human body, up to and including that body’s capacity to fragment, die, transform, and merge with its surroundings, across a range of early modern drama, from anonymous playwrights, Udall, Lyly, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, Webster, Marston, Massinger, Heminge and others. Concurrently, we shall read and respond to relevant texts on theater and embodiment in primary philosophy, literary criticism, and recent early modern literary scholarship, with a particular focus on animality, race, gender and disability. What is dramatic form? What does the imagined or projected integrity of literary form have to do with normative expectations about the integrity of the human body? How do forms of bodily difference inflect, challenge or complicate the stability of those norms? Possible secondary authors include Aristotle, Nicholas Abraham, Gail Kern Paster, Lynn Enterline, Karen Raber, Eoin Price, Noemie Ndiaye, Andy Kesson, Katherine Schaap Williams, Ian Smith, and Aaron Kunin.
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Bodies on Stage in Early Modern Drama AS.060.659 (01)
This course analyzes the staging of the human body, up to and including that body’s capacity to fragment, die, transform, and merge with its surroundings, across a range of early modern drama, from anonymous playwrights, Udall, Lyly, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, Webster, Marston, Massinger, Heminge and others. Concurrently, we shall read and respond to relevant texts on theater and embodiment in primary philosophy, literary criticism, and recent early modern literary scholarship, with a particular focus on animality, race, gender and disability. What is dramatic form? What does the imagined or projected integrity of literary form have to do with normative expectations about the integrity of the human body? How do forms of bodily difference inflect, challenge or complicate the stability of those norms? Possible secondary authors include Aristotle, Nicholas Abraham, Gail Kern Paster, Lynn Enterline, Karen Raber, Eoin Price, Noemie Ndiaye, Andy Kesson, Katherine Schaap Williams, Ian Smith, and Aaron Kunin.
Days/Times: F 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Daniel, Andrew
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/8
PosTag(s): ENGL-PR1800
AS.060.687 (01)
Literature and Political Geography
M 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Achinstein, Sharon
Gilman 130D
Fall 2023
Across the Western literary tradition that forms the inheritance of the European literary renaissance, classical voyages of discovery, settlement, or return had long furnished the stuff of major literary genre of epic, with the Biblical figure of Exodus prizing movement into promised territory, wandering and arrival. Yet how is space also an assumption of polity that must be invented, a biopolitics, a zoopolitics, and a mediation of flow? We take these questions of space to understand the pre-history of European modernity around the making of enclosed space(s), exploring the fierce debate in early modernity about the political organization of space, the borders or walls that shield or exclude (as in the city, the nation, the home, the prison, the church, the plantation), and to consider concepts of border and flow. We will focus on English works by Milton, Bradstreet, and Cavendish, and sharpen these questions with critical thinkers Foucault, Derrida, Latour, Sassen, Soja, and Stoler, among others. The class welcomes students whose interests lie primarily in national literatures other than English, who may write their final papers on primary texts and literatures not discussed in class, but that must engage the theoretical texts assigned for the seminar.
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Literature and Political Geography AS.060.687 (01)
Across the Western literary tradition that forms the inheritance of the European literary renaissance, classical voyages of discovery, settlement, or return had long furnished the stuff of major literary genre of epic, with the Biblical figure of Exodus prizing movement into promised territory, wandering and arrival. Yet how is space also an assumption of polity that must be invented, a biopolitics, a zoopolitics, and a mediation of flow? We take these questions of space to understand the pre-history of European modernity around the making of enclosed space(s), exploring the fierce debate in early modernity about the political organization of space, the borders or walls that shield or exclude (as in the city, the nation, the home, the prison, the church, the plantation), and to consider concepts of border and flow. We will focus on English works by Milton, Bradstreet, and Cavendish, and sharpen these questions with critical thinkers Foucault, Derrida, Latour, Sassen, Soja, and Stoler, among others. The class welcomes students whose interests lie primarily in national literatures other than English, who may write their final papers on primary texts and literatures not discussed in class, but that must engage the theoretical texts assigned for the seminar.
Days/Times: M 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Achinstein, Sharon
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/8
PosTag(s): ENGL-PR1800
AS.060.822 (01)
Teaching Assistant
Miller, Andrew
Fall 2023
For English PhD students in their second year. This indicates they are actively participating as a TA as required by the program.
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Teaching Assistant AS.060.822 (01)
For English PhD students in their second year. This indicates they are actively participating as a TA as required by the program.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Miller, Andrew
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.855 (01)
Fifth-Year Teaching
Miller, Andrew
Fall 2023
For English PhD candidates in their fifth year. This indicates they are actively teaching a course as required by the program.
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Fifth-Year Teaching AS.060.855 (01)
For English PhD candidates in their fifth year. This indicates they are actively teaching a course as required by the program.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Miller, Andrew
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.857 (01)
Fifth-Year Service
Miller, Andrew
Fall 2023
For English PhD candidates in their fifth year. This indicates they are actively performing an administrative/service role with the program/department or university that precludes any teaching responsibilities.
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Fifth-Year Service AS.060.857 (01)
For English PhD candidates in their fifth year. This indicates they are actively performing an administrative/service role with the program/department or university that precludes any teaching responsibilities.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Miller, Andrew
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.893 (01)
Individual Work
Miller, Andrew; Thompson, Mark Christian
Fall 2023
This course is a semester-long independent research course for graduate students. Students will have one-on-one assignments and check-in's with designated faculty throughout the semester.
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Individual Work AS.060.893 (01)
This course is a semester-long independent research course for graduate students. Students will have one-on-one assignments and check-in's with designated faculty throughout the semester.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Miller, Andrew; Thompson, Mark Christian
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 27/40
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.894 (01)
Independent Reading
Thompson, Mark Christian
Fall 2023
This course is a semester-long independent research course for graduate students to focus on their field of study. Students will have one-on-one assignments and check-in's with designated faculty throughout the semester.
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Independent Reading AS.060.894 (01)
This course is a semester-long independent research course for graduate students to focus on their field of study. Students will have one-on-one assignments and check-in's with designated faculty throughout the semester.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Thompson, Mark Christian
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.213.608 (01)
Literary Geographies: Landscape, Place and Space in Literature
T 3:30PM - 5:30PM
Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
Gilman 479
Fall 2023
This graduate-level course will explore the material topographies of literature, both real and imagined, engaging the landscapes, geographies, and environments of literary works both as a vital dimension of the text and as contributions to 'cultural ecology'. We will explore how topography may be engaged not as mere background or setting for literary situations, but as a dynamic and vital dimension thereof, and how the human experiences evoked can be radically recontextualized and engaged through environmental attention to the text. We will read theoretical and philosophical works on geography and topography in literature along with environmental literary theory in approaching literary works by writers from the late 18th to the mid 20th centuries. Readings may include works by Goethe, Novalis, Heine, Thoreau, Schnitzler, Thomas Mann, Rilke, Hofmannsthal, Brecht, Woolf, Borges, and other writers from the late 18th through 20th centuries. Discussions will invite phenomenological, de- or post-colonial, and ecological perspectives.
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Literary Geographies: Landscape, Place and Space in Literature AS.213.608 (01)
This graduate-level course will explore the material topographies of literature, both real and imagined, engaging the landscapes, geographies, and environments of literary works both as a vital dimension of the text and as contributions to 'cultural ecology'. We will explore how topography may be engaged not as mere background or setting for literary situations, but as a dynamic and vital dimension thereof, and how the human experiences evoked can be radically recontextualized and engaged through environmental attention to the text. We will read theoretical and philosophical works on geography and topography in literature along with environmental literary theory in approaching literary works by writers from the late 18th to the mid 20th centuries. Readings may include works by Goethe, Novalis, Heine, Thoreau, Schnitzler, Thomas Mann, Rilke, Hofmannsthal, Brecht, Woolf, Borges, and other writers from the late 18th through 20th centuries. Discussions will invite phenomenological, de- or post-colonial, and ecological perspectives.
Days/Times: T 3:30PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
Room: Gilman 479
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.623 (01)
Modern American Poetry: Engaging Forms
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Siraganian, Lisa
Gilman 208
Fall 2023
A dive into the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, Muriel Rukeyser, and Langston Hughes (among a few others), exploring American modernism’s aesthetic and philosophical preoccupations. How do these texts’ formal ambitions engage with philosophical thinking as well as social concerns and political theorizing? Writing assignments: two short presentation papers and either two 10-12 pages papers or one, multi-drafted, 20-25-page seminar paper.
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Modern American Poetry: Engaging Forms AS.300.623 (01)
A dive into the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, Muriel Rukeyser, and Langston Hughes (among a few others), exploring American modernism’s aesthetic and philosophical preoccupations. How do these texts’ formal ambitions engage with philosophical thinking as well as social concerns and political theorizing? Writing assignments: two short presentation papers and either two 10-12 pages papers or one, multi-drafted, 20-25-page seminar paper.
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Siraganian, Lisa
Room: Gilman 208
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.656 (01)
The Novel as Philosopher of History
M 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Crisostomo, Johaina Katinka
Gilman 130D
Spring 2024
This course will explore the intersection between philosophies of history and theories of the novel. We will be examining the novel’s function not only as an aesthetic and philosophical object, but also as a self-conscious historical artifact. The first part of the course will include readings of from history, philosophy, and literary theory to explore various perspectives on how the novel has been both shaper and receptacle of history, while the second part will delve into close-readings of several primary texts—a historical novel, an experimental novel, and a graphic novel—to investigate the different ways in which this protean form has been mobilized to engage with questions about the relationship between aesthetic form and historical knowledge.
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The Novel as Philosopher of History AS.060.656 (01)
This course will explore the intersection between philosophies of history and theories of the novel. We will be examining the novel’s function not only as an aesthetic and philosophical object, but also as a self-conscious historical artifact. The first part of the course will include readings of from history, philosophy, and literary theory to explore various perspectives on how the novel has been both shaper and receptacle of history, while the second part will delve into close-readings of several primary texts—a historical novel, an experimental novel, and a graphic novel—to investigate the different ways in which this protean form has been mobilized to engage with questions about the relationship between aesthetic form and historical knowledge.
Days/Times: M 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Crisostomo, Johaina Katinka
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/8
PosTag(s): ENGL-GLOBAL
AS.060.679 (01)
Realism: Theory and Practice
T 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Rosenthal, Jesse Karl
Gilman 130D
Spring 2024
This seminar will offer an in-depth examination of the theory and practice of the nineteenth-century realist novel in three traditions: American, British, and French. Our aim will be to understand the central theories and controversies surrounding realism, as well as to interrogate the centrality of realism to novel theory and narrative theory. Authors will likely include Jane Austen, George Eliot, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Frank Norris and William Dean Howells. Theorists and critics will likely include Erich Auerbach, M. M. Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Bertolt Brecht, René Girard, Roman Jakobson, Henry James, Fredric Jameson, Georg Lukács, Boris Tomashevsky, Ian Watt and Émile Zola.
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Realism: Theory and Practice AS.060.679 (01)
This seminar will offer an in-depth examination of the theory and practice of the nineteenth-century realist novel in three traditions: American, British, and French. Our aim will be to understand the central theories and controversies surrounding realism, as well as to interrogate the centrality of realism to novel theory and narrative theory. Authors will likely include Jane Austen, George Eliot, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Frank Norris and William Dean Howells. Theorists and critics will likely include Erich Auerbach, M. M. Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Bertolt Brecht, René Girard, Roman Jakobson, Henry James, Fredric Jameson, Georg Lukács, Boris Tomashevsky, Ian Watt and Émile Zola.
Days/Times: T 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Rosenthal, Jesse Karl
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/8
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.690 (01)
Fascism in Theory and Practice
W 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Mufti, Aamir
Gilman 130D
Spring 2024
“Fascism” has returned to the political vocabulary of the times suddenly and without much intellectual preparation. This graduate seminar proposes to put on a firmer conceptual footing the possibility of understanding the present political and social crisis as the “return” of fascism as a political culture across the Euro-American world and beyond. We shall examine historical and contemporary developments in (and encounter texts from) a range of regions across the world: Western Europe, the United States, Russia, and India. We shall read works of literature, theory and philosophy, literary and linguistic analysis, and sociology by such figures as Sinclair Lewis, Bertolt Brecht, Filippo Marinetti, Julius Evola, Ezra Pound, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Georges Bataille, Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Margaret Atwood, and Alexander Dugin, among others.
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Fascism in Theory and Practice AS.060.690 (01)
“Fascism” has returned to the political vocabulary of the times suddenly and without much intellectual preparation. This graduate seminar proposes to put on a firmer conceptual footing the possibility of understanding the present political and social crisis as the “return” of fascism as a political culture across the Euro-American world and beyond. We shall examine historical and contemporary developments in (and encounter texts from) a range of regions across the world: Western Europe, the United States, Russia, and India. We shall read works of literature, theory and philosophy, literary and linguistic analysis, and sociology by such figures as Sinclair Lewis, Bertolt Brecht, Filippo Marinetti, Julius Evola, Ezra Pound, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Georges Bataille, Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Margaret Atwood, and Alexander Dugin, among others.
Days/Times: W 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Mufti, Aamir
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.693 (01)
Literary and Economic Value
Th 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Nealon, Chris
Gilman 130D
Spring 2024
This seminar is designed to explore some fresh ways of bridging what seems like the gap between “value” in the sense of our value judgements about literary works, and “value” in the economic sense – especially in Marx’s sense of value as a social relationship, rather than a quantity.
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Literary and Economic Value AS.060.693 (01)
This seminar is designed to explore some fresh ways of bridging what seems like the gap between “value” in the sense of our value judgements about literary works, and “value” in the economic sense – especially in Marx’s sense of value as a social relationship, rather than a quantity.
Days/Times: Th 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Nealon, Chris
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/8
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.859 (01)
Fifth-Year Fellowship
Miller, Andrew
Spring 2024
For English PhD candidates in their fifth year. For those who receive external funding and will neither do the expected teaching or participate in any kind of departmental service as required.
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Fifth-Year Fellowship AS.060.859 (01)
For English PhD candidates in their fifth year. For those who receive external funding and will neither do the expected teaching or participate in any kind of departmental service as required.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Miller, Andrew
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.213.627 (01)
Lunar Poetics: Lucian to Kepler and Beyond
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Frey, Christiane; ni Mheallaigh, Karen
Gilman 132
Spring 2024
When the German astronomer Johannes Kepler in his famous "Somnium" (1608) creates a fictitious dream narrative in which the earth is observed from the moon, it becomes clear that the shift from the geocentric to the heliocentric worldview entails a radical change of perspective that can be achieved only by means of the imagination. What appears as a sunrise is in reality due to the earth's own movement. Where appearance and reality diverge, the new model requires a fictional account without which it remains incomprehensible. Orbiting around Kepler’s short tale, this seminar will focus on cosmic narratives and poetic explorations of outer space, from Lucian's True Stories and Icaromenippus (2nd century CE), one of the earliest literary treatments of a journey through space, Plutarch’s dialogue On the face of the Moon (late 1st century CE), to Godwin's The Man in the Moone (1638) and Kant's »Of the Inhabitants of the Stars« (1755). What is the epistemic function of literary representations of the cosmos? Are space-travel narratives thought experiments? What role does fiction and the imagination play in the science of astronomy? By pursuing these and related questions, this course will question common assumptions about the relationship of science to fiction and the literary imagination while tracing key junctures in the history of astronomy.
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Lunar Poetics: Lucian to Kepler and Beyond AS.213.627 (01)
When the German astronomer Johannes Kepler in his famous "Somnium" (1608) creates a fictitious dream narrative in which the earth is observed from the moon, it becomes clear that the shift from the geocentric to the heliocentric worldview entails a radical change of perspective that can be achieved only by means of the imagination. What appears as a sunrise is in reality due to the earth's own movement. Where appearance and reality diverge, the new model requires a fictional account without which it remains incomprehensible. Orbiting around Kepler’s short tale, this seminar will focus on cosmic narratives and poetic explorations of outer space, from Lucian's True Stories and Icaromenippus (2nd century CE), one of the earliest literary treatments of a journey through space, Plutarch’s dialogue On the face of the Moon (late 1st century CE), to Godwin's The Man in the Moone (1638) and Kant's »Of the Inhabitants of the Stars« (1755). What is the epistemic function of literary representations of the cosmos? Are space-travel narratives thought experiments? What role does fiction and the imagination play in the science of astronomy? By pursuing these and related questions, this course will question common assumptions about the relationship of science to fiction and the literary imagination while tracing key junctures in the history of astronomy.
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Frey, Christiane; ni Mheallaigh, Karen
Room: Gilman 132
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.215.718 (01)
Public Humanities Writing Workshop
M 1:30PM - 3:30PM
Seguin, Becquer D
Gilman 490
Spring 2024
Humanists possess a reservoir of scholarly abilities that prime them for contributing to debates well beyond the academy. This semester-long workshop will introduce graduate students to the basics of writing for such broad audience. Each session will be organized around particular topics in public humanities writing, including the pitching, writing, editing, and publishing processes of newspapers, magazines, and online outlets. We will also consider the forms of writing that most allow scholars to draw from their academic training and research: reviews, personal essays, op-eds, interviews, and profiles. Throughout the course we will see how the interdisciplinarity, comparativism, and multilingualism of fields from across the humanities can be helpful for reaching wide audiences. Beyond the nuts and bolts of getting started in so-called “public” writing, this course aspires to teach graduate students how to combine quality writing with academic knowledge, scholarly analysis with a general intellectual readership—and, ultimately, make academic knowledge a public good. Taught in English.
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Public Humanities Writing Workshop AS.215.718 (01)
Humanists possess a reservoir of scholarly abilities that prime them for contributing to debates well beyond the academy. This semester-long workshop will introduce graduate students to the basics of writing for such broad audience. Each session will be organized around particular topics in public humanities writing, including the pitching, writing, editing, and publishing processes of newspapers, magazines, and online outlets. We will also consider the forms of writing that most allow scholars to draw from their academic training and research: reviews, personal essays, op-eds, interviews, and profiles. Throughout the course we will see how the interdisciplinarity, comparativism, and multilingualism of fields from across the humanities can be helpful for reaching wide audiences. Beyond the nuts and bolts of getting started in so-called “public” writing, this course aspires to teach graduate students how to combine quality writing with academic knowledge, scholarly analysis with a general intellectual readership—and, ultimately, make academic knowledge a public good. Taught in English.
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 3:30PM
Instructor: Seguin, Becquer D
Room: Gilman 490
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.605 (01)
Introduction to Computational Methods for the Humanities
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Lippincott, Tom; Sirin Ryan, Hale
Gilman 55
Spring 2024
This course introduces basic computational techniques in the context of empirical humanistic scholarship. Topics covered include the command-line, basic Python programming, and experimental design. While illustrative examples are drawn from humanistic domains, the primary focus is on methods: those with specific domains in mind should be aware that such applied research is welcome and exciting, but will largely be their responsibility beyond the confines of the course. Students will come away with tangible understanding of how to cast simple humanistic questions as empirical hypotheses, ground and test these hypotheses computationally, and justify the choices made while doing so. No previous programming experience is required.
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Introduction to Computational Methods for the Humanities AS.360.605 (01)
This course introduces basic computational techniques in the context of empirical humanistic scholarship. Topics covered include the command-line, basic Python programming, and experimental design. While illustrative examples are drawn from humanistic domains, the primary focus is on methods: those with specific domains in mind should be aware that such applied research is welcome and exciting, but will largely be their responsibility beyond the confines of the course. Students will come away with tangible understanding of how to cast simple humanistic questions as empirical hypotheses, ground and test these hypotheses computationally, and justify the choices made while doing so. No previous programming experience is required.
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Lippincott, Tom; Sirin Ryan, Hale
Room: Gilman 55
Status: Open
Seats Available: 19/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.606 (01)
Computational Intelligence for the Humanities
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Backer, Samuel Ehrlich; Messner, Craig A
Gilman 195
Spring 2024
This course introduces substantial machine learning methods of particular relevance to humanistic scholarship. Areas covered include standard models for classification, regression, and topic modeling, before turning to the array of open-source pretrained deep neural models, and the common mechanisms for employing them. Students are expected to have a level of programming experience equivalent to that gained from AS.360.304, Gateway Computing, AS.250.205, or Harvard’s CS50 for Python. Students will come away with an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of different machine learning models, the ability to discuss them in relation to human intelligence and to make informed decisions of when and how to employ them, and an array of related technical knowledge.
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Computational Intelligence for the Humanities AS.360.606 (01)
This course introduces substantial machine learning methods of particular relevance to humanistic scholarship. Areas covered include standard models for classification, regression, and topic modeling, before turning to the array of open-source pretrained deep neural models, and the common mechanisms for employing them. Students are expected to have a level of programming experience equivalent to that gained from AS.360.304, Gateway Computing, AS.250.205, or Harvard’s CS50 for Python. Students will come away with an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of different machine learning models, the ability to discuss them in relation to human intelligence and to make informed decisions of when and how to employ them, and an array of related technical knowledge.
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Backer, Samuel Ehrlich; Messner, Craig A
Room: Gilman 195
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.800 (01)
Independent Study
Miller, Andrew
Summer 2024
This course is a semester-long independent research course for graduate students. Students will have one-on-one assignments and check-in's with designated faculty throughout the semester.
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Independent Study AS.060.800 (01)
This course is a semester-long independent research course for graduate students. Students will have one-on-one assignments and check-in's with designated faculty throughout the semester.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Miller, Andrew
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 30/30
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.803 (01)
Pre-Dissertation Summer Work
Miller, Andrew
Summer 2024
This course is for English graduate students who are pre-candidacy and need to be credited for work over the summer.
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Pre-Dissertation Summer Work AS.060.803 (01)
This course is for English graduate students who are pre-candidacy and need to be credited for work over the summer.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Miller, Andrew
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 20/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.893 (01)
Individual Research
Miller, Andrew
Summer 2024
This course is a semester-long independent research course for graduate students. Students will have one-on-one assignments and check-in's with designated faculty throughout the semester.
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Individual Research AS.060.893 (01)
This course is a semester-long independent research course for graduate students. Students will have one-on-one assignments and check-in's with designated faculty throughout the semester.