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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: 11/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.602 (01)
Proseminar
W 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Mufti, Aamir
Gilman 388
Fall 2024
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: W 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Mufti, Aamir
Room: Gilman 388
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/8
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.660 (01)
Metaphor and Violence
M 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Daniel, Andrew
Gilman 130D
Fall 2024
Pushing off from Samuel Johnson’s allegation that in Donne’s poetry “heterogenous ideas are yoked by violence together”, this seminar will reconsider the status of metaphor and the nature of authorial agency. Can metaphors themselves enact violence? Or is such a question a category mistake? This seminar will build out from the intuition that figurative assemblage and social hierarchy are necessarily related, but it does not presume in advance that we all agree about how this relationship works. We will read an array of divergent accounts of how metaphors operate across literary criticism, rhetoric, and the philosophy of language (Aristotle, early modern rhetorical manuals, as well as Lakoff, Black, Davidson, Donoghue), and we will consider key metaphoric relationships (body as landscape, orgasm as death, kingdom as family, love as slavery, sexual violence as hunting) as they surface in early modern literature. Literary texts will include poetry by Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Milton, Marvell and Pope.
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Metaphor and Violence AS.060.660 (01)
Pushing off from Samuel Johnson’s allegation that in Donne’s poetry “heterogenous ideas are yoked by violence together”, this seminar will reconsider the status of metaphor and the nature of authorial agency. Can metaphors themselves enact violence? Or is such a question a category mistake? This seminar will build out from the intuition that figurative assemblage and social hierarchy are necessarily related, but it does not presume in advance that we all agree about how this relationship works. We will read an array of divergent accounts of how metaphors operate across literary criticism, rhetoric, and the philosophy of language (Aristotle, early modern rhetorical manuals, as well as Lakoff, Black, Davidson, Donoghue), and we will consider key metaphoric relationships (body as landscape, orgasm as death, kingdom as family, love as slavery, sexual violence as hunting) as they surface in early modern literature. Literary texts will include poetry by Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Milton, Marvell and Pope.
Days/Times: M 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Daniel, Andrew
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/10
PosTag(s): ENGL-PR1800
AS.060.684 (01)
Modernism and Human Value
Th 10:00AM - 1:00PM
Mao, Douglas
Gilman 130D
Fall 2024
This course considers modernist and modernism-adjacent texts that raise questions not only about human values but also about the very value of humanity or human beings in the world or the cosmos. Writers to be studied may include Richard Jefferies, Rabindranath Tagore, T. E. Hulme, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Mourning Dove, Graham Greene, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Stevens, and Olaf Stapledon.
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Modernism and Human Value AS.060.684 (01)
This course considers modernist and modernism-adjacent texts that raise questions not only about human values but also about the very value of humanity or human beings in the world or the cosmos. Writers to be studied may include Richard Jefferies, Rabindranath Tagore, T. E. Hulme, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Mourning Dove, Graham Greene, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Stevens, and Olaf Stapledon.
Days/Times: Th 10:00AM - 1:00PM
Instructor: Mao, Douglas
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/8
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.689 (01)
The Performance of Politics
T 10:00AM - 1:00PM
Grobe, Christopher Arthur
Gilman 130D
Fall 2024
When someone says that a politician is being “theatrical” or that a protestor is following a “script,” it is rarely meant as a compliment—but why? The implication is that true politics is never theatrical, never scripted, never performed, never entangled with spectacle. Put so baldly, this claim is hard to believe. If, instead, we take for granted that all politics is performed, we are left with several unanswered questions. What would an eye trained on performance (theater, dance, film, comedy, spoken word, etc.) see in our politics that someone else would not? Are there distinct performance traditions in politics, as there are in the performing arts? How do activists and office-holders enter these traditions, learn their ways, and apply them in everyday settings? How are civilians expected (or trained) to engage with this performance of politics—either as spectators or co-performers? What are the key genres of political performance, and what should citizens, activists, and other engaged people know about them? This course surveys key concepts in performance theory (e.g., theatricality, performativity, ritual, play) and asks students to apply these tools to two things: political events and performance-based works of art. Case studies will center around US political and performance history, and may include: the origins of US liberal-democratic political culture in stoical forms of theater, the theatricality of the Civil Rights movement, and the recent transformation of transgressive play from a radical-left to a far-right style of political performance. Students will be invited to bring their expertise in other periods and other political/performance cultures, and to help sharpen our analysis by testing our ideas against those alternate contexts.
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The Performance of Politics AS.060.689 (01)
When someone says that a politician is being “theatrical” or that a protestor is following a “script,” it is rarely meant as a compliment—but why? The implication is that true politics is never theatrical, never scripted, never performed, never entangled with spectacle. Put so baldly, this claim is hard to believe. If, instead, we take for granted that all politics is performed, we are left with several unanswered questions. What would an eye trained on performance (theater, dance, film, comedy, spoken word, etc.) see in our politics that someone else would not? Are there distinct performance traditions in politics, as there are in the performing arts? How do activists and office-holders enter these traditions, learn their ways, and apply them in everyday settings? How are civilians expected (or trained) to engage with this performance of politics—either as spectators or co-performers? What are the key genres of political performance, and what should citizens, activists, and other engaged people know about them? This course surveys key concepts in performance theory (e.g., theatricality, performativity, ritual, play) and asks students to apply these tools to two things: political events and performance-based works of art. Case studies will center around US political and performance history, and may include: the origins of US liberal-democratic political culture in stoical forms of theater, the theatricality of the Civil Rights movement, and the recent transformation of transgressive play from a radical-left to a far-right style of political performance. Students will be invited to bring their expertise in other periods and other political/performance cultures, and to help sharpen our analysis by testing our ideas against those alternate contexts.
Days/Times: T 10:00AM - 1:00PM
Instructor: Grobe, Christopher Arthur
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/8
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.822 (01)
Teaching Assistant
Nurhussein, Nadia
Fall 2024
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: Nurhussein, Nadia
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.855 (01)
Fifth-Year Teaching
Nurhussein, Nadia
Fall 2024
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: Nurhussein, Nadia
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.857 (01)
Fifth-Year Service
Nurhussein, Nadia
Fall 2024
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: Nurhussein, Nadia
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.213.642 (01)
What Is Called Thinking
Th 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Tobias, Rochelle
Gilman 479
Fall 2024
The privilege of thinking has faced two challenges in recent years. The advent of artificial intelligence has called into question how unique thinking is when cognition can easily be mimicked, if not (re)produced, in machines through statistical models of language. An equally prevalent, if opposing, development in critical theory is the expansion of thought to include all purposeful action, such as the spreading of information among trees regarding available resources. The first half of the semester will be devoted to the definition of thinking offered by Aristotle and its interpretation in selected texts by Fichte, Hegel, and Marx. The second half will consider the surge of interest in automatons in romantic literature (Novalis, Hoffmann, Kleist and Poe) and culminating in Kafka’s “Report to an Academy.
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What Is Called Thinking AS.213.642 (01)
The privilege of thinking has faced two challenges in recent years. The advent of artificial intelligence has called into question how unique thinking is when cognition can easily be mimicked, if not (re)produced, in machines through statistical models of language. An equally prevalent, if opposing, development in critical theory is the expansion of thought to include all purposeful action, such as the spreading of information among trees regarding available resources. The first half of the semester will be devoted to the definition of thinking offered by Aristotle and its interpretation in selected texts by Fichte, Hegel, and Marx. The second half will consider the surge of interest in automatons in romantic literature (Novalis, Hoffmann, Kleist and Poe) and culminating in Kafka’s “Report to an Academy.
Days/Times: Th 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Tobias, Rochelle
Room: Gilman 479
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.855 (01)
Fifth-Year Teaching
Nurhussein, Nadia
Spring 2025
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: Nurhussein, Nadia
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 9/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.800 (01)
Independent Study
Nurhussein, Nadia
Spring 2025
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: Nurhussein, Nadia
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.822 (01)
Teaching Assistant
Nurhussein, Nadia
Spring 2025
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: Nurhussein, Nadia
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 6/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.833 (01)
Third-Year Teaching
Nurhussein, Nadia
Spring 2025
For English PhD students/candidates in their third year. This indicates they are actively teaching a course as required by the program.
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Third-Year Teaching AS.060.833 (01)
For English PhD students/candidates in their third year. This indicates they are actively teaching a course as required by the program.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Nurhussein, Nadia
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 9/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.811 (01)
TA Apprenticeship
Nurhussein, Nadia
Spring 2025
For English PhD students in their first spring semester. They will get their first bit of experience with TAship responsibilities.
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TA Apprenticeship AS.060.811 (01)
For English PhD students in their first spring semester. They will get their first bit of experience with TAship responsibilities.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Nurhussein, Nadia
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 9/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.040.619 (01)
Epics and Empire: Postcolonial Perspectives on Vergil’s Aeneid
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Pandey, Nandini
Gilman 108
Spring 2025
This graduate seminar (welcoming advanced undergrads with instructor permission) examines epic literature’s entanglements with empire, colonialism, ethnicity, indigeneity, and slavery via critical readings of Vergil’s Aeneid. Students will gain methodological and pragmatic familiarity with movements to ‘decolonize’ and globalize the study of antiquity. As a counterbalance to Classics’ historical service to imperialism, we will read Vergil alongside other literary epics on race, identity, and belonging, representing diverse global languages, belief systems, geographies, and positionalities. We will also survey classics of postcolonial thought, from Fanon to Hartman, and apply their theories and methods to primary sources. Our hope is to incubate reparative approaches to the Aeneid and epic literature while also evaluating novel methodologies of comparison, reception, resistant interpretation, and critical fabulation. Classics graduate students will read the Aeneid in Latin. Undergraduate and non-Classics graduate students may read in translation but should plan on substantial engagement with an additional epic of their choice. All will hone professional skills as they produce a final research paper suitable for conference presentation or open-access web publication on race-time.net.
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Epics and Empire: Postcolonial Perspectives on Vergil’s Aeneid AS.040.619 (01)
This graduate seminar (welcoming advanced undergrads with instructor permission) examines epic literature’s entanglements with empire, colonialism, ethnicity, indigeneity, and slavery via critical readings of Vergil’s Aeneid. Students will gain methodological and pragmatic familiarity with movements to ‘decolonize’ and globalize the study of antiquity. As a counterbalance to Classics’ historical service to imperialism, we will read Vergil alongside other literary epics on race, identity, and belonging, representing diverse global languages, belief systems, geographies, and positionalities. We will also survey classics of postcolonial thought, from Fanon to Hartman, and apply their theories and methods to primary sources. Our hope is to incubate reparative approaches to the Aeneid and epic literature while also evaluating novel methodologies of comparison, reception, resistant interpretation, and critical fabulation. Classics graduate students will read the Aeneid in Latin. Undergraduate and non-Classics graduate students may read in translation but should plan on substantial engagement with an additional epic of their choice. All will hone professional skills as they produce a final research paper suitable for conference presentation or open-access web publication on race-time.net.
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
Room: Gilman 108
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.611 (01)
Method
T 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Miller, Andrew
Gilman 130D
Spring 2025
The past few years have seen several consequential texts investigating the methods of literary criticism: writing by John Guillory, Jonathan Kramnick, Anaheid Nercessian, Caroline Levine, Anna Kornbluh, and others have responded forcibly to both longstanding disciplinary debates and newly pressing economic forces. Among the most notable features of this discussion has been a new attention to writing as the medium of method; while drawing on a long theoretical history (likely to include work by Weber and Adorno) we will spend a good deal of time with the methodogical implications of contemporary critical prose.
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Method AS.060.611 (01)
The past few years have seen several consequential texts investigating the methods of literary criticism: writing by John Guillory, Jonathan Kramnick, Anaheid Nercessian, Caroline Levine, Anna Kornbluh, and others have responded forcibly to both longstanding disciplinary debates and newly pressing economic forces. Among the most notable features of this discussion has been a new attention to writing as the medium of method; while drawing on a long theoretical history (likely to include work by Weber and Adorno) we will spend a good deal of time with the methodogical implications of contemporary critical prose.
Days/Times: T 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Miller, Andrew
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/8
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.683 (01)
Literature and Social Theory
W 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Da, Nan
Gilman 130D
Spring 2025
What if the social doesn't just "contain" literature but takes its cues from it? This course will address the fundamental and ongoing questions about the way people live and the role of social practice in defining, producing, and using literature. In this course we will ask about the material production of texts; about the role of readers in appropriating them; about the alliance of literature to class and institutional settings; about the human interactions that literature models for us and their problems; and about the connection between literary studies and globalization. Rather than regard “the social” as simply a shorthand for “social problems,” and literature’s relationship to it as merely indexical or diagnostic, we will explore more complex versions of both sociality and its relationship to literature. Course materials takes up bodies of knowledge that fall in the contact zone between sociology and literary theory—Marxian hermeneutics, discourse-network theory, media studies, book history, narratology, object-oriented ontologies, and systems theory--and assess their worth for changing conversations in literary studies without rendering literary criticism obsolete. In fact, we will seriously consider the idea that literary criticism has much to say about truly complex sociological and social phenomena, and conditions of modernity, perhaps doing sociology better than sociology in its present form. Another question we will ask is if Kantian aesthetics can be reconciled with Bourdieuian sociology, studying pieces of interpretation and theory that do exactly that. Aside from many canonical sociological texts, students will be given a solid introduction to British Cultural Studies, the Frankfurt School, Poststructuralism, Affect Studies, and Book History.
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Literature and Social Theory AS.060.683 (01)
What if the social doesn't just "contain" literature but takes its cues from it? This course will address the fundamental and ongoing questions about the way people live and the role of social practice in defining, producing, and using literature. In this course we will ask about the material production of texts; about the role of readers in appropriating them; about the alliance of literature to class and institutional settings; about the human interactions that literature models for us and their problems; and about the connection between literary studies and globalization. Rather than regard “the social” as simply a shorthand for “social problems,” and literature’s relationship to it as merely indexical or diagnostic, we will explore more complex versions of both sociality and its relationship to literature. Course materials takes up bodies of knowledge that fall in the contact zone between sociology and literary theory—Marxian hermeneutics, discourse-network theory, media studies, book history, narratology, object-oriented ontologies, and systems theory--and assess their worth for changing conversations in literary studies without rendering literary criticism obsolete. In fact, we will seriously consider the idea that literary criticism has much to say about truly complex sociological and social phenomena, and conditions of modernity, perhaps doing sociology better than sociology in its present form. Another question we will ask is if Kantian aesthetics can be reconciled with Bourdieuian sociology, studying pieces of interpretation and theory that do exactly that. Aside from many canonical sociological texts, students will be given a solid introduction to British Cultural Studies, the Frankfurt School, Poststructuralism, Affect Studies, and Book History.
Days/Times: W 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Da, Nan
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/8
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.800 (07)
Independent Study
Daniel, Andrew
Spring 2025
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 (07)
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: Daniel, Andrew
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.615 (01)
Literature and Early Modern Human Rights
Th 10:00AM - 1:00PM
Achinstein, Sharon
Gilman 130D
Spring 2025
Today human rights and capabilities are two intertwined concepts, each subject to contemporary critique. In the early modern period, these were much debated and literature was a key site for the development of these imperfect, variable and contested discourses. Reading literary works from the European tradition, in particular in Europeans' engagement with dissident groups both within (women, religious dissidents, the Irish) and outside Europe (Ottoman, African, American), we will explore themes of: exclusion, embodiment, risk, vulnerability, and the languages and practices of equivalence and domination in the variable discourses of humanitarianism, population and resource management and natural law in authors including Shakespeare, Grotius, Montaigne, Hobbes, Behn, Locke, Astell, Swift, Montagu and Defoe.
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Literature and Early Modern Human Rights AS.060.615 (01)
Today human rights and capabilities are two intertwined concepts, each subject to contemporary critique. In the early modern period, these were much debated and literature was a key site for the development of these imperfect, variable and contested discourses. Reading literary works from the European tradition, in particular in Europeans' engagement with dissident groups both within (women, religious dissidents, the Irish) and outside Europe (Ottoman, African, American), we will explore themes of: exclusion, embodiment, risk, vulnerability, and the languages and practices of equivalence and domination in the variable discourses of humanitarianism, population and resource management and natural law in authors including Shakespeare, Grotius, Montaigne, Hobbes, Behn, Locke, Astell, Swift, Montagu and Defoe.
Days/Times: Th 10:00AM - 1:00PM
Instructor: Achinstein, Sharon
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/8
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.859 (01)
Fifth-Year Fellowship
Nurhussein, Nadia
Spring 2025
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: Nurhussein, Nadia
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.881 (01)
Dissertation Prospectus Workshop
Nurhussein, Nadia
Spring 2025
For English PhD students who have successfully passed their exam and have entered "candidacy." The DGS will host workshops over the course of the spring to help with writing the dissertation prospectus that will outline their dissertation project.
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Dissertation Prospectus Workshop AS.060.881 (01)
For English PhD students who have successfully passed their exam and have entered "candidacy." The DGS will host workshops over the course of the spring to help with writing the dissertation prospectus that will outline their dissertation project.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Nurhussein, Nadia
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 9/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.857 (01)
Fifth-Year Service
Nurhussein, Nadia
Spring 2025
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: Nurhussein, Nadia
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 9/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.215.650 (01)
Race, Aesthetics, Speculation
M 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Gil'Adí, Maia
Gilman 479
Spring 2025
This seminar takes as its jumping off point the question of how the representation of race and ethnicity intersects with theories surrounding aesthetics, literary form, and speculation writ large, proposing that the investigation of these elements and their various imbrications offer an important aperture to consider the contemporary, and ways to reflect on the haunting remainders of history as they become manifest in cultural production.
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Race, Aesthetics, Speculation AS.215.650 (01)
This seminar takes as its jumping off point the question of how the representation of race and ethnicity intersects with theories surrounding aesthetics, literary form, and speculation writ large, proposing that the investigation of these elements and their various imbrications offer an important aperture to consider the contemporary, and ways to reflect on the haunting remainders of history as they become manifest in cultural production.
Days/Times: M 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Gil'Adí, Maia
Room: Gilman 479
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/10
PosTag(s): MLL-SPAN
AS.360.606 (01)
Computational Intelligence for the Humanities
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Backer, Samuel Ehrlich; Messner, Craig A
Maryland 114
Spring 2025
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: Maryland 114
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.893 (01)
Individual Research
Nurhussein, Nadia; Thompson, Mark Christian
Spring 2025
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.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Nurhussein, Nadia; Thompson, Mark Christian
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 32/40
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.883 (01)
Dissertation Prospectus Writing
Nurhussein, Nadia
Spring 2025
For English PhD students who have successfully passed their exam and have entered "candidacy." This indicates they are actively writing/working on their dissertation prospectus that will outline their dissertation project.
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Dissertation Prospectus Writing AS.060.883 (01)
For English PhD students who have successfully passed their exam and have entered "candidacy." This indicates they are actively writing/working on their dissertation prospectus that will outline their dissertation project.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Nurhussein, Nadia
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 9/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.895 (01)
Journal Club
Nurhussein, Nadia
Spring 2025
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Journal Club AS.060.895 (01)
Days/Times:
Instructor: Nurhussein, Nadia
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 10/10
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
Krieger 304
Spring 2025
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.