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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
Info
AS.060.637 (01)
Counterfactual Literature
T 9:00AM - 12:00PM
Miller, Andrew
Gilman 130D
Counterfactual Literature AS.060.637 (01)
This course will focus on the formal, affective, ethical, and conceptual issues associated with forking-path texts—poems, fictions and films that openly offer alternative paths to the experience of individuals.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: T 9:00AM - 12:00PM
Instructor: Miller, Andrew
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/8
AS.060.800 (03)
Independent Study
Nealon, Christopher
Independent Study AS.060.800 (03)
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.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Nealon, Christopher
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 4/5
AS.060.638 (01)
Whitman and the Whitmanian
M 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Nealon, Christopher
Gilman 130D
Whitman and the Whitmanian AS.060.638 (01)
This course will take the occasion of the bicentennial of the birth of Walt Whitman as an occasion to think about the legacies of his poetry in American literary history, especially in contemporary poetry. We will read key texts of Whitman’s then move to more recent writing, paying attention to the key scholarship on Whitman from the last few decades, as well as to recent scholarship on poetry that is in dialog with the questions of democracy, capitalism, on the one hand, and form and address, on the other, that have shaped our reading of Whitman and of poetry in the Whitmanian mode.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: M 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Nealon, Christopher
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/8
AS.060.641 (01)
Close Reading, Exhaustive Reading, and the Novel
W 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Rosenthal, Jesse Karl
Gilman 130D
Close Reading, Exhaustive Reading, and the Novel AS.060.641 (01)
How much can you say about a novel? How much of a novel can a critic interpret? The large scale of the novel form seems to resist the interpretive techniques of literary criticism, which look closely at a small number of textual examples. But what if we tried to read every word of a novel, and see it in all its forms: genre, structure, history, politics, biography, and so on? This seminar will look closely at a small number of Victorian novels (probably Dickens' *David Copperfield* and Eliot's *Daniel Deronda*, subject to change). We will approach these novels through a variety of theroetical lenses. There will be a special emphasis placed on the relations between form, history, and politics. This seminar will also offer students a chance to apply theories of literature and the novel often considered in abstract.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: W 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Rosenthal, Jesse Karl
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/8
AS.060.628 (01)
Literature and Human Rights: 1500-1720
T 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Achinstein, Sharon
Gilman 130D
Literature and Human Rights: 1500-1720 AS.060.628 (01)
Today human rights and capabilities are two intertwined concepts. 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 and outside Europe, we will explore themes of embodiment, power, risk, vulnerability and the languages and practices of equivalence and domination in the variable discourses of humanitarianism, natural law, and rights in authors including Shakespeare, Grotius, Montaigne, Hobbes, Milton, Behn, Locke, Swift, Montagu and Defoe.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: T 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Achinstein, Sharon
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/8
AS.060.893 (01)
Individual Work
Individual Work AS.060.893 (01)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor:
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/30
AS.060.894 (01)
Independent Reading
Independent Reading AS.060.894 (01)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor:
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/10
AS.060.800 (01)
Independent Study
Cannon, Christopher
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.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Cannon, Christopher
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
AS.060.895 (01)
Journal Club
Daniel, Andrew
Journal Club AS.060.895 (01)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Daniel, Andrew
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
AS.213.639 (01)
On the Difficulty of Saying I
F 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Tobias, Rochelle
Gilman 479
On the Difficulty of Saying I AS.213.639 (01)
This course takes as its point of departure the position that language carries within it the traces of something that exceeds the cognitive grasp of the subject and to this extent undoes any claim to knowledge the subject might make. This position has been central to twentieth and twenty-first century thought from psychoanalysis and poststructuralism to media theory and new materialism. This course will not take issue with this position. It will examine instead how this position evolved from the Idealism of Fichte to the eerily inhuman, if not mechanical, talking figures in texts by Novalis (“Monolog”), Poe (“Maelzel’s Chess Player”), Hoffmann (“Die Automate”), Büchner (Leonce und Lena), and Kafka (“Ein Bericht für eine Akademie”). We will explore the literature of the personal and impersonal in romantic and modernist texts in order to ask what moves and motivates works in which the first-person narrator would seem to be nothing more than a fiction—a staged phenomenon or a mechanical device.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: F 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Instructor: Tobias, Rochelle
Room: Gilman 479
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 12/12
AS.060.639 (01)
The American Renaissance: History of a Field
Th 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Hickman, Jared W
Gilman 130D
The American Renaissance: History of a Field AS.060.639 (01)
This seminar will provide an intensive introduction to antebellum nineteenth-century U.S. literature by way of tracking a critical formulation foundational to the field of American studies as whole: "the American Renaissance." Coined by F.O. Matthiessen in 1941, "the American Renaissance" initially referred to a canon of five white male writers (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman) alleged to have produced work of distinction in two interrelated senses--the first specifically "American" literature deserving of academic study. We will follow the fortunes of this critical formulation, tracing how some of the authors in Matthiessen's canon have subsequently been reinterpreted and repositioned as well as how "the American Renaissance" canon has been expanded and its very conceptualization contested. Primary authors whose work may be examined include William Apess, William Wells Brown, Lydia Maria Child, Frederick Douglass, Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Hawthorne, Harriet Jacobs, Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the anonymous author of Xicotencatl. Secondary works may include: Matthiessen, The American Renaissance (1941); Reynolds, Beneath the American Renaissance (1988); Michaels and Pease, The American Renaissance Reconsidered (1989); Crews, "Whose American Renaissance?" (1988); Colacurcio, "The American-Renaissance Renaissance" (1991); Avallone, "What American Renaissance?" (1997); Grossman, Reconstituting the American Renaissance (2003); Brickhouse, Transamerican Literary Relations (2004); Fluck, Romance with America (2009); Hager and Marrs, "Against 1865" (2013).
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: Th 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Hickman, Jared W
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/8
AS.060.800 (02)
Independent Study
Mao, Douglas
Independent Study AS.060.800 (02)
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.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Mao, Douglas
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 4/5
AS.213.687 (01)
Imagination in Philosophy and Literary Theory
T 3:00PM - 5:00PM
Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
Gilman 479
Imagination in Philosophy and Literary Theory AS.213.687 (01)
Imagination in Philosophy and Literary Theory is devoted to studying theories of imagination in the history of philosophy and literary theory, from the ancient Greeks to the present day. We will study philosophical conceptions of the role of imagination in memory, cognition, perception, and creativity, and assess traditional philosophical oppositions between imagination and reason, the imaginary and the real. Readings may include selections from Aristotle, Kant, Coleridge, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Dufrenne, Stevens, Iser, Ricoeur, Ryle, Wittgenstein, and Nussbaum.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:00PM
Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
Room: Gilman 479
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
Column one has the course number and section. Other columns show the course title, days offered, instructor's name, room number, if the course is cross-referenced with another program, and a option to view additional course information in a pop-up window.
Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
Info
AS.060.800 (02)
Independent Study
Achinstein, Sharon
Independent Study AS.060.800 (02)
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.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Achinstein, Sharon
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 5/5
AS.060.893 (01)
Individual Work
Thompson, Mark C
Individual Work AS.060.893 (01)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Thompson, Mark C
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/20
AS.060.696 (01)
Journal Club
Daniel, Andrew
Journal Club AS.060.696 (01)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Daniel, Andrew
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
AS.060.629 (01)
The History of the Book
W 12:00PM - 3:00PM
Cannon, Christopher
Gilman 108
The History of the Book AS.060.629 (01)
The course will account for the major transformations in the media used for writing from the scroll to the web as well as the rich account of this history and its theorizations.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: W 12:00PM - 3:00PM
Instructor: Cannon, Christopher
Room: Gilman 108
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/10
AS.060.894 (01)
Independent Reading
Thompson, Mark C
Independent Reading AS.060.894 (01)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Thompson, Mark C
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
AS.060.607 (01)
Fiction and Doubt After 1888
T 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Mao, Douglas
Gilman 130D
Fiction and Doubt After 1888 AS.060.607 (01)
Examines the interrelation between fiction and doubt since the late nineteenth century. Authors may include Ward, Conrad, Joyce, Eliot, Stevens, Woolf, Baldwin, Flannery O’Connor, Ishmael Reed, Sefi Atta, R. O. Kwon.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: T 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Mao, Douglas
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/8
AS.060.800 (01)
Independent Study
Thompson, Mark C
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.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Thompson, Mark C
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 5/5
AS.060.800 (03)
Independent Study
Daniel, Andrew
Independent Study AS.060.800 (03)
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.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Daniel, Andrew
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 4/5
AS.300.618 (01)
What is a Person? Humans, Corporations, Robots, Trees.
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Siraganian, Lisa Michele
Gilman 208
What is a Person? Humans, Corporations, Robots, Trees. AS.300.618 (01)
Knowing who or what counts as a person seems straightforward, until we consider the many kinds of creatures, objects, and artificial beings that have been granted—or demanded or denied—that status. This course investigates recent debates about being a person in literature and law. Questions examined will include: Should trees have standing? Can corporations have religious beliefs? Could a robot sign a contract? Although our explorations will be focused on these questions, the genre of materials examined will be wide-ranging (including legal essays, philosophy, contemporary novels, and film). Texts will include novels by William Gibson and Lydia Millet, essays by John Dewey and Daniel Dennett, and films such as Ex Machinaand Her.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Siraganian, Lisa Michele
Room: Gilman 208
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/10
AS.213.639 (01)
On the Difficulty of Saying I
F 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Tobias, Rochelle
Gilman 443
On the Difficulty of Saying I AS.213.639 (01)
This course takes as its point of departure the position that language carries within it the traces of something that exceeds the cognitive grasp of the subject and to this extent undoes any claim to knowledge the subject might make. This position has been central to twentieth and twenty-first century thought from psychoanalysis and poststructuralism to media theory and new materialism. This course will not take issue with this position. It will examine instead how this position evolved from the Idealism of Fichte to the eerily inhuman, if not mechanical, talking figures in texts by Novalis (“Monolog”), Poe (“Maelzel’s Chess Player”), Hoffmann (“Die Automate”), Büchner (Leonce und Lena), and Kafka (“Ein Bericht für eine Akademie”). We will explore the literature of the personal and impersonal in romantic and modernist texts in order to ask what moves and motivates works in which the first-person narrator would seem to be nothing more than a fiction—a staged phenomenon or a mechanical device.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: F 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Tobias, Rochelle
Room: Gilman 443
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/15
AS.060.619 (01)
Sentimental Reasons
M 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Favret, Mary
Gilman 130D
Sentimental Reasons AS.060.619 (01)
Recent work in cognitive approaches to literature have led critics to return to the sentimental novel of the eighteenth-century as a “laboratory,” in Daniel Goss’s words, for the investigation of human emotion. There is no easy “fit” between these literary narratives and the narratives of cognitive science, nor between them and the regnant moral philosophy of the age (built upon the mechanism of human sympathy or upon “nervous” association). There is rather a discomfort that reveals social inequities as well as alternative possibilities for both thinking and feeling. The sentimental mode took hold in the circuits of the Atlantic world. This course will study several sentimental narratives that traveled promiscuously through those circuits: Bernardin de St. Pierre’s Paul and Virginia, Sterne’s Sentimental Journey, Mackenzie’s Man of Feeling; Equiano’s Interesting Narrative; Williams’ Peru; and Brown’s The Power of Sympathy. Alongside these works we will read studies by critics working the seams between affect and cognition, philosophy and literature, rhetoric and science. The course will provide a broad history of the sentimental mode, stretching to reflections on the links between the sentimental and the melodramatic. It will simultaneously attend to the experience of reading for sentiment, to forms of feeling and what those feelings know.