Literature (LIT)

Survey of a variety of literary modes and genres from different cultures and time periods.

Survey of World Literature from Ancient and Classical times through the Renaissance. Centers on both canonical and marginal texts in their cultural and historical contexts. This course includes selections from the Western canon.

Survey of World Literature from the seventeenth century to the present. Centers on both canonical and marginal texts in their cultural and historical contexts. This course includes selections from the Western canon.

SURVEY OF A VARIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LITERARY WORKS WRITTEN AFTER 1945 IN THEIR SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS.

THIS COMPARATIVE COURSE FOCUSES ON ANALYSIS OF pre-1800 NON-U.S. AND NON-ENGLISH LITERARY WORKS IN TRANSLATION.

Readings course on the Modern European Novel in translation as it developed from the nineteenth century to WW II.

This comparative course focuses on analysis of post-1800 non-U.S. and non-English literary works in translation.

This post-1800 course outlines key concerns in postcolonial theory in reading literary, cultural, and historical texts on issues including (but not limited to) colonialism, globalization, migration, diaspora, and nativism.

Twentieth-century popular culture as represented in film, fiction, music, and television.

This course examines the cultural productions of women writers of color in the Americas with a particular focus on literature, theory, and film.

Interdisciplinary readings course on the relationship between literature and the other creative arts, the other humanistic disciplines, and/or the sciences and technology.

This readings course examines journals, letters, narratives, memoirs which document early European contact with the landscape and inhabitants of the Americas. Students focus on texts that predate the English settlements to consider such diverse figures as Columbus, Cabeza de Vaca, de Champlain, and Menendez de Aviles.

Survey course on Asian literature featuring a variety of Asian texts in English translation. Topics include literary analysis; diverse genres; political, social and cultural contexts; and philosophical approaches.

A comparison of literary works, themes, or practices from more than one culture or region. This comparison may be made in the framework of a literary genre, a period in literary history, or dominant themes and motifs. Individual instructors may choose to integrate literary production with other cross-cultural phenomena, such as historical changes and social movements as expressed through narratives in various contexts.

Literary and cultural studies prior to 1800.

This seminar explores Caribbean poetry and fiction in the context of post-Negritude struggles for collective and individual identity. This course examines works by major authors from the Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora.

This course will focus on literature and/or criticism that deals with the human body - its functions, definitions, representations, maladies, etc.

This is a seminar in literary criticism from Aristotle to the present. The course focuses on the relationship between literary theory and "real life" politics, philosophy, religious struggles, and assumptions about nature of "knowledge."

Seminar examining the political, cultural, and social significance of ethnic identity within a variety of contexts. Focus on problematical and relative nature of the term "ethnic" to consider variable topics and issues.

This seminar examines the African diaspora from the period of decolonization (1960s) to the present. The course considers major issues (neocolonialism and postcolonialism, black nationalism, identity politics and conflicts, racism, and cultural imperialism) as expressed in selected texts and contexts. Readings span a generation of Black writers from such diverse regions as Africa, the Caribbean, and the American South.

Analysis of cultural artifacts and critical theory with a focus on issues related to environmental sustainability.

Examining the relationship between literature and politics within a variety of historical and geographical contexts.

This seminar centers a comparative study of major contemporary authors from North, Central, and South America. Students explore literary techniques, contextual influences and points of convergence and divergence in the works.

Seminar examining critical perspectives offered and applied in literary, film, media, and culture criticism.

Topics of special or current interest. May be repeated change of topic.

Intensive study of major figures, works, and themes in literary and critical theory with an emphasis on the 20th century.

a comparison of literatures from different cultures and time periods

A examination of post-1800 literary and non-literary texts from throughout the world with a focus on the comparative impact of culture.

An examination of post-WWII literature and culture.

examination of literatures and cultures outside the U.S. and Great Britain after 1800

examination of world literature prior to 1800

Examines one or more theories of literature, culture, and textual formation from ancient Greece to the present. This course can be taught either as a survey of various schools of theory or as an in-depth study of a particular school of theory e.g. feminist, Freudian, historicist, etc.

examination of literatures and cultures through different disciplinary lenses

An examination of the interrelationships between literature and other disciplines or fields, post-1800.

Explores the philosophical foundations of environmental attitudes through the study of British and U.S. literature.

An examination of culture and its products through a variety of theoretical perspectives. Course may be repeated once with a change in content.

Supervised research in preparation for writing a thesis on a topic in interdisciplinary literature or multicultural literature. Approval of the coordinator of graduate studies required.