| FRENCH100 | The History of Pirates | TBD |
| FRENCH103 | Literature and Atheism | France, the land of laïcité and the epicenter of the Enlightenment and of Existentialism, has played a central role in the development of modern western atheism. Its philosophical and literary traditions - traditions in which the line between philoso... |
| FRENCH110 | French Painting from Watteau to Monet | This course offers a survey of painting in France from 1700 to around 1900. It introduces major artists, artworks, and the concepts used by contemporary observers and later art historians to make sense of this extraordinarily rich period. Overarching... |
| FRENCH118 | Literature and the Brain | How does fiction make us better at reading minds? Why do some TV shows get us to believe two contradictory things at once? And can cognitive biases be a writer's best friend? We'll think about these and other questions in the light of contemporary ne... |
| FRENCH120 | Coffee and Cigarettes: The Making of French Intellectual Culture | Examines a quintessential French figure "l'intellectuel" from a long-term historical perspective. We will observe how this figure was shaped over time by such other cultural types as the writer, the artist, the historian, the philosopher, and the mor... |
| FRENCH121 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Politics, Philosophy, and Literature | "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." This seminar explores the work of one of the most important and enigmatic thinkers about the problems of modern society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Students will read a selection of his most important w... |
| FRENCH129 | Camus | "The admirable conjunction of a man, of an action, and of a work" for Sartre, "the ideal husband of contemporary letters" for Susan Sontag, reading "Camus's fiction as an element in France's methodically constructed political geography of Algeria" fo... |
| FRENCH12Q | Humanities Core: Great Books, Big Ideas -- Europe, Middle Ages and Renaissance | This three-quarter sequence asks big questions of major texts in the European and American tradition. What is a good life? How should society be organized? Who belongs? How should honor, love, sin, and similar abstractions govern our actions? Wh... |
| FRENCH13 | Humanities Core: Great Books, Big Ideas -- Europe, Modern | What is a good life? How should society be organized? Who belongs? How should honor, love, sin, and similar abstractions govern our actions? What duty do we owe to the past and future? This course examines tcourse examines these questions in the mode... |
| FRENCH130 | Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance French Literature | In this introductory course, we will read some key texts of literature written in French between 1100 and 1600, paying special attention to how gender, cultural difference and love played a role in the doing and undoing of communities. What does it m... |
| FRENCH131 | Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution in 17th- and 18th-Century France | The literature, culture, and politics of France from Louis XIV to Olympe de Gouges. How this period produced the political and philosophical foundations of modernity. Readings may include Corneille, Molière, Racine, Lafayette, Voltaire, Diderot, Rous... |
| FRENCH132 | Literature, Revolutions, and Changes in 19th- and 20th-Century France | This course explores central texts of 19th- and 20th-Century French literature, following the evolution of important literary movements during those centuries of cultural and social transformation. We will study texts in all major genres (prose, poet... |
| FRENCH133 | Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean | This course provides students with an introductory survey of literature and cinema from Francophone Africa and the Caribbean in the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will be encouraged to consider the geographical, historical, and political connectio... |
| FRENCH140 | Paris: Capital of the Modern World | This course explores how Paris, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, became the political, cultural, and artistic capital of the modern world. It considers how the city has both shaped and been shaped by the tumultuous events of modern his... |
| FRENCH148 | Cinema and the Real: Italian Neo-Realism and the French New Wave | Between the 1940s and 1960s, in Italy and France, a handful of movie directors revolutionized the art of cinema. In the wake of World War II they entirely re-defined the aesthetics of the 7th art in films such as "Bicycle Thieves," "400 Blows," "Rome... |
| FRENCH149 | Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art | Why do dating sites rely on photographs? Why do we believe that love is above all a visual force? How is pleasure, even erotic pleasure, achieved through looking? While the psychology of impressions offers some answers, this course uncovers the ways... |
| FRENCH153 | Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité: French Political Myths and Concepts | "Liberté, égalité, fraternité," but also "laïcité," "diversité," "parité," "universalisme" : the French have forged over the last two centuries key political concepts that are articulated together in a unique way and shape the political consciousness... |
| FRENCH154 | Film & Philosophy | What makes you the individual you are? Should you plan your life, or make it up as you go along? Is it always good to remember your past? Is it always good to know the truth? When does a machine become a person? What do we owe to other people? Is th... |
| FRENCH154E | Film & Philosophy CE | Issues of authenticity, morality, personal identity, and the value of truth explored through film; philosophical investigation of the filmic medium itself. Screenings to include Blade Runner (Scott), Do The Right Thing (Lee), The Seventh Seal (Bergma... |
| FRENCH155 | 10 French Women Who Changed History | In this class we'll explore the lives of 10 extraordinary French women who changed the course of French history. Eleanor of Aquitaine and Joan of Arc will teach us how to win wars and hearts to one's cause; Olympe de Gouges and George Sand will revol... |
| FRENCH159 | French Kiss: The History of Love and the French Novel | The history of the French novel is also the history of love. How did individuals experience love throughout history? How do novels reflect this evolution of love through the ages? And, most significantly, how have French novels shaped our own underst... |
| FRENCH173 | Couture Culture | Fashion, art, and representation in Europe and the US between 1860 and today. Beginning with Baudelaire, Impressionism, the rise of the department store and the emergence of haute couture, culminating in the spectacular fashion exhibitions mounted a... |
| FRENCH175 | CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People | This course takes students on a trip to major capital cities, at different moments in time: Renaissance Florence, Golden Age Madrid, Colonial Mexico City, Enlightenment and Romantic Paris, Existential and Revolutionary St. Petersburg, Roaring Berlin,... |
| FRENCH178 | The Haitian Revolution: Slavery, Freedom, and the Atlantic World | How did the French colony of Saint-Domingue become Haiti, the world's first Black-led republic? What did Haiti symbolize for the African diaspora and the Americas at large? What sources and methods do scholars use to understand this history? To answe... |
| FRENCH181 | Philosophy and Literature | Can novels make us better people? Can movies challenge our assumptions? Can poems help us become who we are? We'll think about these and other questions with the help of writers like Toni Morrison, Marcel Proust, Jordan Peele, Charlie Kaufman, Rachel... |
| FRENCH185 | Texts and Contexts: French-English Translation | This course introduces students to the ways in which translation has shaped the image of France and the Francophone world. What texts and concepts were translated, how, where, and to what effect? Students will work on a translation project throughout... |
| FRENCH186 | The Art of Self-Portraits | What is a self-portrait? The simple answer is that it is a portrait of the self. The complex answer is: anything that a person finds relevant to one's identity. Sometimes self-portraits are built around a positive idea, sometimes around a sense of lo... |
| FRENCH187 | Sex, Gender, and Violence: French Women Writers Today | Long before the 2017 #Metoo campaign, French women writers have explored through powerful fictions and autobiographies the different shades of economic, social, psychological, physical, or sexual violence that is exerted against, but also by and betw... |
| FRENCH188 | Women, Wheat, and Weather? Lessons from Italy and the Global South for the 21st Century | The Global South - a symbolic Mediterranean stretching from the Caribbean to India - lures the civilized man with the promise of excellent weather, voluptuous women, and good food. Already in antiquity, Sicily, the southernmost province of what is to... |
| FRENCH192 | Women in Contemporary French Cinema | Women as objects and subjects of the voyeuristic gaze inherent to cinema. The evolution of female characters, roles, actresses, directors in the French film industry from the sexual liberation to #metoo. Women as archetypes, icones, images, or as age... |
| FRENCH199 | Individual Work | Restricted to French majors with consent of department. Normally limited to 4-unit credit toward the major. May be repeated for credit. |
| FRENCH205 | Songs of Love and War: Gender, Crusade, Politics | The course examines the medieval love lyric tradition, including the troubadours, trouvères, and the Italian dolce stil nuovo. Focus on how to understand this tradition in the context of other non-Western lyric and its performative and material conte... |
| FRENCH212 | Giambattista Vico | An intensive reading of Vico's book - New Science. Emphasis will be on Vico's philosophy of history and theories of poetic wisdom, myth, and language. Vico will be put in dialogue with René Descartes, Rousseau, Auguste Compte, Claude Lévi Strauss,... |
| FRENCH214 | Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett | In this course we will read the main novels and plays of Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett, with special emphasis on the existentialist themes of their work. Readings include The Late Mattia Pascal, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV; Naus... |
| FRENCH217 | Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West | Romantic love, it is often claimed, is an invention of the High Middle Ages. The vocabulary of sexual desire that is still current in the twenty-first century was authored in the twelfth and thirteenth, by troubadours, court poets, writers like Dante... |
| FRENCH218 | Literature and the Brain | How does fiction make us better at reading minds? Why do some TV shows get us to believe two contradictory things at once? And can cognitive biases be a writer's best friend? We'll think about these and other questions in the light of contemporary ne... |
| FRENCH219 | The Renaissance Body in French Literature and Medicine | If the Renaissance is famous for discovering unknown continents and ancient texts the body too was a new territory of conquest. How did literature respond to the rise of an anatomical gaze in the arts and in medicine and how did it stage the aestheti... |
| FRENCH220 | Rethinking Francophonie in the 21st Century | This course is a critical examination of literature from the Francophone world of the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will travel through time and space with a selection of novels, poems, epics, memoirs, essays, manifestos and short stories. In thi... |
| FRENCH221A | Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Politics, Philosophy, and Literature | "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." This seminar explores the work of one of the most important and enigmatic thinkers about the problems of modern society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Students will read a selection of his most important w... |
| FRENCH228 | Science, Technology, and Society and the Humanities in the Face of Looming Disaster | How STS and the Humanities can together help think out the looming catastrophes that put the future of humankind in jeopardy. |
| FRENCH228E | Getting Through Proust | Selections from all seven volumes of "In Search of Lost Time". Focus on issues of personal identity (perspective, memory, life-narrative); interpersonal relations (friendship, love, homosexuality, jealousy, indirect expression); knowledge (objective... |
| FRENCH236 | Casablanca - Algiers - Tunis : Cities on the Edge | Casablanca, Algiers and Tunis embody three territories, real and imaginary, which never cease to challenge the preconceptions of travelers setting sight on their shores. In this class, we will explore the myriad ways in which these cities of North Af... |
| FRENCH238 | Art and the Market | This course examines the relationship between art and the market, from the château-builders of the French Renaissance to avant-garde painters in the nineteenth-century Salon des Refusés. Using examples drawn from France, this course explores the rela... |
| FRENCH239 | The Afterlife of the Middle Ages | Literary works that evoke a medieval past in contrast to a historical present, and critical texts that treat aspects of the medieval or medievalism. How does the concept of medievalism emerge and evolve through the ages? Topics include periodization,... |
| FRENCH243 | Letter Writing in 17th - and 18th - Century France: A Media Revolution | This interdisciplinary course examines the evolution of letter-writing practices in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France through the lens of a media revolution, and highlights the historical roots of contemporary media issues. We will read prim... |
| FRENCH246 | Body over Mind | How does modern fiction, aided by modern philosophy, give the lie to Descartes' famous "I think therefore I am"? And how does writing convey the desire for a different, perhaps stronger, integration of mind and body? Does the body speak a particular... |
| FRENCH248 | Cinema and the Real: Italian Neo-Realism and the French New Wave | Between the 1940s and 1960s, in Italy and France, a handful of movie directors revolutionized the art of cinema. In the wake of World War II they entirely re-defined the aesthetics of the 7th art in films such as "Bicycle Thieves," "400 Blows," "Rome... |
| FRENCH249 | The Algerian Wars | From Algiers the White to Algiers the Red, Algiers, the Mecca of the Revolutionaries in the words of Amilcar Cabral, this course offers to study the Algerian Wars since the French conquest of Algeria (1830-) to the Algerian civil war of the 1990s. We... |
| FRENCH250 | The Oceanic Novel: Woolf, Conrad, Duras, Tournier, Condé, Ortese | This course will examine novels situated by, on, or in the sea. Its guiding questions: how do the immense breadth and depth of the sea relate to human interiority, self-discovery, and the shadow world of dreams? Does the sea mark a boundary, or a d... |
| FRENCH251 | Writing, Memory, and the Self | Recent work in psychology and neuroscience emphasizes the narrative quality of the self, as we create it and recreate it through language and writing, shaping memories both personal and historical. This process is circular: we grow into the stories w... |
| FRENCH252 | Art and Power: From Royal Spectacle to Revolutionary Ritual | From the Palace of Versailles to grand operas to Jacques-Louis David's portraits of revolutionary martyrs, rarely have the arts been so powerfully mobilized by the State as in early modern France. This course examines how the arts were used from Loui... |
| FRENCH254 | Animism, Gaia, and Alternative Approaches to the Environment | Indigenous knowledges have been traditionally treated as a field of research for anthropologists and as mistaken epistemologies, i.e., un-scientific and irrational folklore. However, within the framework of environmental humanities, current interest... |
| FRENCH257 | Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero | What does it mean to say the personal is the political, or, in the case of Arendt, that the personal is not political, especially if you are a woman? This course explores how Weil, De Beauvoir, Arendt, and Caverero contend with the question of perso... |
| FRENCH260A | Transcultural Perspectives of South-East Asian Music and Arts | This course will explore the links between aspects of South-East Asian cultures and their influence on modern and contemporary Western art and literature, particularly in France; examples of this influence include Claude Debussy (Gamelan music), Jacq... |
| FRENCH261 | War and Peace: Writings by and about Veterans in the 20th and 21st Centuries | Since the aftermath of World War One, and with increasing urgency in contemporary America, stories about and by veterans are assigned a double role: that of exposing the horror of war yet also defending the possibility of a just war, and that of heal... |
| FRENCH262 | Symbolism in Literature and the Arts | This course will deal with the some of the 19th and 20th century authors and artists associated with Symbolism. We will focus on some key theoretical essays about the symbol, as well as on symbolist poetry, novels, visual arts, cinema, and music. In... |
| FRENCH264 | Crossing the Atlantic: Race and Identity in the "Old" and "New" African Diasporas | In this course, we will think critically about what we have come to call the African diaspora. We will travel the world virtually while exploring a selection of classic and understudied texts, in order to interrogate the relationship between culture,... |
| FRENCH265 | The Problem of Evil in Literature, Film, and Philosophy | Conceptions of evil and its nature and source, distinctions between natural and moral evil, and what belongs to God versus to the human race have undergone transformations reflected in literature and film. Sources include Rousseau's response to the 1... |
| FRENCH269 | Transfigurative Lyric: Baudelaire and Mallarmé | What happens when injustice runs rampant, when democracy fails, and when it's no longer possible to believe in ancient forms of faith? Can lyric poetry console? Can it inspire? Can it re-enchant a disenchanted world? Together we'll read some of the m... |
| FRENCH272 | Body Doubles: From the Fantastic Short Story to Science-Fiction | How do we imagine our bodies through language, at times almost completely refashioning a physical double, be it idealized or abject? How do such body doubles intersect with our sense of self, defining or redefining sexual identity, spiritual aspirati... |
| FRENCH279 | How the French Reinvented Cinema: The New Wave | Focus on the French New Wave's cinematic revolution of 1959-1962. In a few years, the Nouvelle Vague delivered landmark works such as Truffaut's 400 Blows, Godard's Breathless, Chabrol's The Cousins or Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour, and changed foreve... |
| FRENCH281 | Women in Africa and the Caribbean: Tales of Agency | This course explores forms of women's agency in African and Caribbean cultural productions. Drawing on literature, visual art and feminist theory we will grapple with the concept of agency in different socio-historical and economic contexts while exa... |
| FRENCH285 | Texts and Contexts: French-English Translation | This course introduces students to the ways in which translation has shaped the image of France and the Francophone world. What texts and concepts were translated, how, where, and to what effect? Students will work on a translation project throughout... |
| FRENCH286 | Poetry and Philosophy | When and why do philosophers resort to poetry?What is the relationship between poetic metaphor and philosophical argumentation?Why is the poetic often associated with empathy - recently touted as an essential human characteristic - whereas philosoph... |
| FRENCH287 | Sex, Gender, and Violence: French Women Writers Today | Long before the 2017 #Metoo campaign, French women writers have explored through powerful fictions and autobiographies the different shades of economic, social, psychological, physical, or sexual violence that is exerted against, but also by and betw... |
| FRENCH288 | Women, Wheat, and Weather? Lessons from Italy and the Global South for the 21st Century | The Global South - a symbolic Mediterranean stretching from the Caribbean to India - lures the civilized man with the promise of excellent weather, voluptuous women, and good food. Already in antiquity, Sicily, the southernmost province of what is to... |
| FRENCH290 | Magic, Science, and Religion | With the rise of the human sciences in the later nineteenth century, "magic," "science," and "religion" came to be understood as entirely separate domains, with different versions of truth and divergent methods of inquiry. But how has this division b... |
| FRENCH291 | Women in Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema | Women as objects and subjects of the voyeuristic gaze inherent to cinema. The evolution of female characters, roles, actresses, directors in the French film industry from the sexual liberation to #metoo. Women as archetypes, icones, images, or as age... |
| FRENCH292 | Romancing the Stone: Crystal Media from Babylon to Superman | This seminar investigates the importance of rock crystal and its imitations as material, medium, and metaphor from antiquity until modernity. The objects examined include rings, reliquaries, lenses, and the Crystal Aesthetic in early twentieth-centur... |
| FRENCH305 | Songs of Love and War: Gender, Crusade, Politics | The course examines the medieval love lyric tradition, including the troubadours, trouvères, and the Italian dolce stil nuovo. Focus on how to understand this tradition in the context of other non-Western lyric and its performative and material conte... |
| FRENCH307A | Proust and His World | This course is a chance to read together Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. This seven-volume novel is a stylistic tour de force, a brilliant meditation on defining elements of modernity, and an eccentric meander through art, history and the se... |
| FRENCH310 | French Painting from Watteau to Monet | This course offers a survey of painting in France from 1700 to around 1900. It introduces major artists, artworks, and the concepts used by contemporary observers and later art historians to make sense of this extraordinarily rich period. Overarching... |
| FRENCH314 | Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett | In this course we will read the main novels and plays of Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett, with special emphasis on the existentialist themes of their work. Readings include The Late Mattia Pascal, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV; Naus... |
| FRENCH317 | Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West | Romantic love, it is often claimed, is an invention of the High Middle Ages. The vocabulary of sexual desire that is still current in the twenty-first century was authored in the twelfth and thirteenth, by troubadours, court poets, writers like Dante... |
| FRENCH319 | The Renaissance Body in French Literature and Medicine | If the Renaissance is famous for discovering unknown continents and ancient texts the body too was a new territory of conquest. How did literature respond to the rise of an anatomical gaze in the arts and in medicine and how did it stage the aestheti... |
| FRENCH321 | Giambattista Vico | An intensive reading of Vico's book - New Science. Emphasis will be on Vico's philosophy of history and theories of poetic wisdom, myth, and language. Vico will be put in dialogue with René Descartes, Rousseau, Auguste Compte, Claude Lévi Strauss,... |
| FRENCH324 | Before the Global South: The Avant-Garde and the Quest for New Knowledges in the Premodern | Contemporary Brazilian, Caribbean, European, and American writers and artists who engage with media, forms, and temporalities of premodern cultures as they develop new epistemologies of the Global South. Readings include Augusto de Campos, Roberto Da... |
| FRENCH329 | Rethinking Francophone Literature in the 21st Century | This course is a critical examination of literature from the Francophone world of the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will travel through time and space with a selection of novels, poems, essays, and short stories. In this historical and cultural j... |
| FRENCH336 | Casablanca - Algiers - Tunis : Cities on the Edge | Casablanca, Algiers and Tunis embody three territories, real and imaginary, which never cease to challenge the preconceptions of travelers setting sight on their shores. In this class, we will explore the myriad ways in which these cities of North Af... |
| FRENCH338 | The Gothic in Literature and Culture | This course examines the Gothic as a both a narrative subgenre and an aesthetic mode, since its 18th century invention. Starting with different narrative genres of Gothic expression such as the Gothic novel, the ghost tale, and the fantastic tale by... |
| FRENCH339 | The Afterlife of the Middle Ages | Literary works that evoke a medieval past in contrast to a historical present, and critical texts that treat aspects of the medieval or medievalism. How does the concept of medievalism emerge and evolve through the ages? Topics include periodization,... |
| FRENCH340 | Paris: Capital of the Modern World | This course explores how Paris, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, became the political, cultural, and artistic capital of the modern world. It considers how the city has both shaped and been shaped by the tumultuous events of modern his... |
| FRENCH346 | Body over Mind | How does modern fiction, aided by modern philosophy, give the lie to Descartes' famous "I think therefore I am"? And how does writing convey the desire for a different, perhaps stronger, integration of mind and body? Does the body speak a particular... |
| FRENCH349 | Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art | Why do dating sites rely on photographs? Why do we believe that love is above all a visual force? How is pleasure, even erotic pleasure, achieved through looking? While the psychology of impressions offers some answers, this course uncovers the ways... |
| FRENCH350 | The Oceanic Novel: Woolf, Conrad, Duras, Tournier, Condé, Ortese | This course will examine novels situated by, on, or in the sea. Its guiding questions: how do the immense breadth and depth of the sea relate to human interiority, self-discovery, and the shadow world of dreams? Does the sea mark a boundary, or a d... |
| FRENCH351 | Writing, Memory, and the Self | Recent work in psychology and neuroscience emphasizes the narrative quality of the self, as we create it and recreate it through language and writing, shaping memories both personal and historical. This process is circular: we grow into the stories w... |
| FRENCH353 | Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité: French Political Myths and Concepts | "Liberté, égalité, fraternité," but also "laïcité," "diversité," "parité," "universalisme" : the French have forged over the last two centuries key political concepts that are articulated together in a unique way and shape the political consciousness... |
| FRENCH355 | The French-Speaking World: Literature, Culture, and Translation | A survey of literatures and cultures of the French speaking world outside of Europe. We will examine a variety of literary genres as we explore works from the Caribbean, the Maghreb, West Africa, North America, Asia, and the Indian Ocean. Topics incl... |
| FRENCH357 | Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero | What does it mean to say the personal is the political, or, in the case of Arendt, that the personal is not political, especially if you are a woman? This course explores how Weil, De Beauvoir, Arendt, and Caverero contend with the question of perso... |
| FRENCH36 | Dangerous Ideas | Ideas matter. Concepts such as equality, tradition, and Hell have inspired social movements, shaped political systems, and dramatically influenced the lives of individuals. Others, like race and urban renewal, play an important role in contemporary d... |
| FRENCH361 | War and Peace: Writings by and about Veterans in the 20th and 21st Centuries | Since the aftermath of World War One, and with increasing urgency in contemporary America, stories about and by veterans are assigned a double role: that of exposing the horror of war yet also defending the possibility of a just war, and that of heal... |
| FRENCH362 | Symbolism in Literature and the Arts | This course will deal with the some of the 19th and 20th century authors and artists associated with Symbolism. We will focus on some key theoretical essays about the symbol, as well as on symbolist poetry, novels, visual arts, cinema, and music. In... |
| FRENCH365 | The Problem of Evil in Philosophy, Literature, and Film | This workshop will explore how the existence of evil in the world has been perceived, felt, analyzed, conceptualized, and dealt with over time, from the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and tsunami to our post-Auschwitz, post-Hiroshima era. We'll take it for g... |
| FRENCH367 | Introduction to Apocalyptic Thinking | At the time of the European Enlightenment, the talk about the end of the world was taken to be a remnant of religious beliefs or the domain of insane people. The rational mind knew how to eliminate those obstacles to continuous scientific and technol... |
| FRENCH368A | Imagining the Oceans | How has Western culture constructed the world's oceans since the beginning of global ocean exploration? How have imaginative visions of the ocean been shaped by marine science, technology, exploration, commerce and leisure? Primary authors read might... |
| FRENCH369 | Introduction to the Profession of Literary Studies | A survey of how literary theory and other methods have been made institutional since the nineteenth century. The readings and conversation are designed for entering Ph.D. students in the national literature departments and comparative literature. |
| FRENCH372 | Body Doubles: From the Fantastic Short Story to Science-Fiction | How do we imagine our bodies through language, at times almost completely refashioning a physical double, be it idealized or abject? How do such body doubles intersect with our sense of self, defining or redefining sexual identity, spiritual aspirati... |
| FRENCH373 | Couture Culture | Fashion, art, and representation in Europe and the US between 1860 and today. Beginning with Baudelaire, Impressionism, the rise of the department store and the emergence of haute couture, culminating in the spectacular fashion exhibitions mounted a... |
| FRENCH373A | Concepts of Modernity I: Nihilism | In the 1885 Preface to his unfinished work The Will to Power, Nietzsche declared: "For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving as toward a catastrophe, restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that... |
| FRENCH377 | Medieval Lyric: How Lyric Moves | Through the study of various vernacular premodern traditions, this graduate level course examines the qualities that make texts "lyric" and place them into conversation with contemporary theories of lyric. The course will situate medieval lyric withi... |
| FRENCH379 | How the French Reinvented Cinema: The New Wave | Focus on the French New Wave's cinematic revolution of 1959-1962. In a few years, the Nouvelle Vague delivered landmark works such as Truffaut's 400 Blows, Godard's Breathless, Chabrol's The Cousins or Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour, and changed foreve... |
| FRENCH380 | Critical Poetics | After recent critiques of "close" methods of literary criticism and reading practices, what claims can we make today about the literary object? Can we ever return to broad and general categories of poetics that were formulated by the major syncretic... |
| FRENCH386 | Poetry and Philosophy | When and why do philosophers resort to poetry?What is the relationship between poetic metaphor and philosophical argumentation?Why is the poetic often associated with empathy - recently touted as an essential human characteristic - whereas philosoph... |
| FRENCH387 | Sex, Gender, and Violence: French Women Writers Today | Long before the 2017 #Metoo campaign, French women writers have explored through powerful fictions and autobiographies the different shades of economic, social, psychological, physical, or sexual violence that is exerted against, but also by and betw... |
| FRENCH390 | Magic, Science, and Religion | With the rise of the human sciences in the later nineteenth century, "magic," "science," and "religion" came to be understood as entirely separate domains, with different versions of truth and divergent methods of inquiry. But how has this division b... |
| FRENCH391 | Women in Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema | Women as objects and subjects of the voyeuristic gaze inherent to cinema. The evolution of female characters, roles, actresses, directors in the French film industry from the sexual liberation to #metoo. Women as archetypes, icones, images, or as age... |
| FRENCH392 | Romancing the Stone: Crystal Media from Babylon to Superman | This seminar investigates the importance of rock crystal and its imitations as material, medium, and metaphor from antiquity until modernity. The objects examined include rings, reliquaries, lenses, and the Crystal Aesthetic in early twentieth-centur... |
| FRENCH392 | Women in Contemporary French Cinema | Women as objects and subjects of the voyeuristic gaze inherent to cinema. The evolution of female characters, roles, actresses, directors in the French film industry from the sexual liberation to #metoo. Women as archetypes, icones, images, or as age... |
| FRENCH395 | Philosophical Reading Group | Discussion of one contemporary or historical text from the Western philosophical tradition per quarter in a group of faculty and graduate students. For admission of new participants, a conversation with Professor Robert Harrison is required. May be r... |
| FRENCH398 | Intensive Reading in French/Italian | Enrollment is limited to French/Italian Ph.D. students. Course is designed for French/Italian Ph.D. students to prepare for department milestone exams. |
| FRENCH399 | Individual Work | For students in French working on special projects or engaged in predissertation research. |
| FRENCH62N | Art and Healing in the Wake of Covid-19: A Health Humanities Perspective | How have artists contributed to healing during the Covid-19 pandemic? How does art shape or express diverse cultural understandings of health and illness, medicine and the body, death and spirituality, in response to crisis? How do such understanding... |
| FRENCH680 | Curricular Practical Training | CPT course required for international students completing degree. Prerequisite: French Ph.D. candidate. |
| FRENCH75N | Narrative Medicine and Near-Death Experiences | Even if many of us don't fully believe in an afterlife, we remain fascinated by visions of it. This course focuses on Near-Death Experiences and the stories around them, investigating them from the many perspectives pertinent to the growing field of... |
| FRENCH801 | TGR Project | No Description Set |
| FRENCH802 | TGR Dissertation | No Description Set |
| FRENCH87N | The New Wave: How The French Reinvented Cinema | When the French New Wave burst onto the stage in 1959, it changed forever the way films are made and the ways we think about cinema. Shooting on location with small crews, light cameras, unknown actors and improvised scripts, a group of young film cr... |
| ITALIAN101 | Italy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Renowned for its rich cultural tradition, Italy is also one of the most problematic nations in Europe. This course explores the contradictions at the heart of Italy by examining how art and literature provide a unique perspective onto modern Italian... |
| ITALIAN115 | Virtual Italy | Classical Italy attracted thousands of travelers throughout the 1700s. Referring to their journey as the "Grand Tour," travelers pursued intellectual passions, promoted careers, and satisfied wanderlust, all while collecting antiquities to fill museu... |
| ITALIAN115A | The Italian Renaissance, or the Art of Success | How come that, even if you have never set foot in Italy, you have heard of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael? What made them so incredibly famous, back then as well as today? This course examines the shooting of those, and other, artists to fame. I... |
| ITALIAN117 | Is Horror (also) Italian? | Horror haunts our world. We associate it with manmade and natural catastrophes. But horror is also a genre. And haven't we all experienced something horrible? In this class, we take up the task of understanding what horror means, why it fascinates us... |
| ITALIAN127 | Inventing Italian Literature: Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca | This course is both an introduction to medieval Italian literature and culture and a continuation of the study of the Italian language. In the literary sphere the course will focus primarily on the Italian lyric tradition of the Sicilian school, the... |
| ITALIAN128 | The Italian Renaissance and the Path to Modernity | Are humans free and self-determining agents possessed of infinite potential or limited beings subject to the vagaries of fortune? What is the relationship between love and beauty? Is it better for a leader to inspire love or fear? These are the kind... |
| ITALIAN129 | Introduction to Modern Italian Literature and Culture | Ancient, yet new; united, yet fractured; central, yet marginal; imperial subject, aspirant empire: what historical, political, and social dynamics have shaped the Italian nation over the course of the last two centuries? How do we make sense of this... |
| ITALIAN140 | Great Minds of the Italian Renaissance and their World | What enabled Leonardo da Vinci to excel in over a dozen fields from painting to engineering and to anticipate flight four hundred years before the first aircraft took off? How did Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel Ceiling? What forces and insight... |
| ITALIAN141 | The Pen and the Sword: A Gendered History | As weapons, the pen and the sword have been used to wound, punish, and condemn as well as to protect, liberate, and elevate. Historically entangled with ideals of heroism, nobility, and civility, the pen and the sword have been the privileged instrum... |
| ITALIAN142 | The Good Life: Renaissance Perspectives on Perennial Questions | What constitutes a good life? What conditions and relationships enable one to live well, and what attitudes and activities, systems and structures bring them about or make them possible? Renaissance men and women asked such questions, turning to stud... |
| ITALIAN148 | Cinema and the Real: Italian Neo-Realism and the French New Wave | Between the 1940s and 1960s, in Italy and France, a handful of movie directors revolutionized the art of cinema. In the wake of World War II they entirely re-defined the aesthetics of the 7th art in films such as "Bicycle Thieves," "400 Blows," "Rome... |
| ITALIAN149 | Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art | Why do dating sites rely on photographs? Why do we believe that love is above all a visual force? How is pleasure, even erotic pleasure, achieved through looking? While the psychology of impressions offers some answers, this course uncovers the ways... |
| ITALIAN152 | Boccaccio's Decameron: The Ethics of Storytelling | This course involves an in-depth study of Boccaccio's Decameron in the context of medieval theories of poetry and interpretation. The goal is to understand more fully the relationship between literature and lived experience implied by Boccaccio's fic... |
| ITALIAN154 | Film & Philosophy | What makes you the individual you are? Should you plan your life, or make it up as you go along? Is it always good to remember your past? Is it always good to know the truth? When does a machine become a person? What do we owe to other people? Is th... |
| ITALIAN154E | Film & Philosophy CE | Issues of authenticity, morality, personal identity, and the value of truth explored through film; philosophical investigation of the filmic medium itself. Screenings to include Blade Runner (Scott), Do The Right Thing (Lee), The Seventh Seal (Bergma... |
| ITALIAN155 | The Mafia in Society, Film, and Fiction | The mafia has become a global problem through its infiltration of international business, and its model of organized crime has spread all over the world from its origins in Sicily. At the same time, film and fiction remain fascinated by a romantic, h... |
| ITALIAN157 | From Saint Francis to San Francisco | tbd |
| ITALIAN175 | CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People | This course takes students on a trip to major capital cities, at different moments in time: Renaissance Florence, Golden Age Madrid, Colonial Mexico City, Enlightenment and Romantic Paris, Existential and Revolutionary St. Petersburg, Roaring Berlin,... |
| ITALIAN179 | Italian Art, Italian Food: Florence and the Banquet of Culture | This class is being offered in collaboration with Stanford in Florence, Bing Overseas Studies Program. This online activity course transports students to three world-class Florentine museums - the Uffizi, the Accademia and the Museo dell'Opera del Du... |
| ITALIAN181 | Philosophy and Literature | Can novels make us better people? Can movies challenge our assumptions? Can poems help us become who we are? We'll think about these and other questions with the help of writers like Toni Morrison, Marcel Proust, Jordan Peele, Charlie Kaufman, Rachel... |
| ITALIAN186 | The Art of Self-Portraits | What is a self-portrait? The simple answer is that it is a portrait of the self. The complex answer is: anything that a person finds relevant to one's identity. Sometimes self-portraits are built around a positive idea, sometimes around a sense of lo... |
| ITALIAN189 | Writing About Italy | Writing about various topics in Italian Studies. Topics based on student interests: current politics, economics, European affairs, or cultural and literary history, medieval to modern, in Italy. Intensive focus on writing. Students may write on their... |
| ITALIAN199 | Individual Work | No Description Set |
| ITALIAN200 | Italian Modernities: Lecture Series and Course | Lecture series and seminar on modern Italian literature, cinema, and culture. While we emphasize the 20th and 21st centuries, we will include medieval and renaissance topics also. We invite 3-6 speakers per year to address us about their recent work... |
| ITALIAN205 | Songs of Love and War: Gender, Crusade, Politics | The course examines the medieval love lyric tradition, including the troubadours, trouvères, and the Italian dolce stil nuovo. Focus on how to understand this tradition in the context of other non-Western lyric and its performative and material conte... |
| ITALIAN213 | Trauma and Disenchantment in Post-War Italy | Italian Neorealism was a flourishing literary and film movement in post-war Italy. The first half ofthis course will deal with some of its major novels, including Italo Calvino's "The Path to the Nest of Spiders", Beppe Fenoglio's "A Private Matter",... |
| ITALIAN214 | Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett | In this course we will read the main novels and plays of Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett, with special emphasis on the existentialist themes of their work. Readings include The Late Mattia Pascal, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV; Naus... |
| ITALIAN217 | Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West | Romantic love, it is often claimed, is an invention of the High Middle Ages. The vocabulary of sexual desire that is still current in the twenty-first century was authored in the twelfth and thirteenth, by troubadours, court poets, writers like Dante... |
| ITALIAN220 | Madness, Magic, and Amor in L'Orlando Furioso | This class is an in-depth reading of the Italian epic poem L'Orlando Furioso, written by Ludovico Ariosto in the early sixteenth century. Errant knights, magic, and unpredictable adventures are just a few of the themes that characterize this unique p... |
| ITALIAN221 | Giambattista Vico | An intensive reading of Vico's book - New Science. Emphasis will be on Vico's philosophy of history and theories of poetic wisdom, myth, and language. Vico will be put in dialogue with René Descartes, Rousseau, Auguste Compte, Claude Lévi Strauss,... |
| ITALIAN228 | Science, Technology, and Society and the Humanities in the Face of Looming Disaster | How STS and the Humanities can together help think out the looming catastrophes that put the future of humankind in jeopardy. |
| ITALIAN231 | Leonardo's World: Science, Technology, and Art | Leonardo da Vinci is emblematic of creativity and innovation. His art is iconic, his inventions legendary. His understanding of nature, the human body, and machines made him a scientist and engineer as well as an artist. His fascination with drawing... |
| ITALIAN233 | When Worlds Collide: The Trial of Galileo | In 1633, the Italian mathematician Galileo was tried and condemned for advocating that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the cosmos. The Catholic Church did not formally admit that Galileo was right until 1992. Examines the many factors that... |
| ITALIAN235E | Dante's "Inferno" | Intensive reading of Dante's "Inferno" (the first canticle of his three canticle poem The Divine Comedy). Main objective: to learn how to read the Inferno in detail and in depth, which entails both close textual analysis as well as a systematic reco... |
| ITALIAN237 | Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy | Revered as one of the greatest artists in history, Michelangelo Buonarroti's extraordinarily long and prodigious existence (1475-1564) spanned the Renaissance and the Reformation in Italy. The celebrity artist left behind not only sculptures, paintin... |
| ITALIAN240 | Great Minds of the Italian Renaissance and their World | What enabled Leonardo da Vinci to excel in over a dozen fields from painting to engineering and to anticipate flight four hundred years before the first aircraft took off? How did Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel Ceiling? What forces and insight... |
| ITALIAN244 | Literature and Technology from Frankenstein to the Futurists | Overview of defects and disorder across crystalline, amorphous, and glassy phases that are central to function and application, spanning metals, ceramics, and soft/biological matter. Structure and properties of simple 0D/1D/2D defects in crystalline... |
| ITALIAN247 | Fantasy, Fables, Fiction: Italo Calvino | We will read Italo Calvino¿s most widely recognized works [The Baron In The Trees, Invisible Cities, Cosmocomics, If on a Winter¿s Night a Traveler, to name a few]. Calvino was the most translated contemporary Italian author at the time of his death.... |
| ITALIAN248 | Cinema and the Real: Italian Neo-Realism and the French New Wave | Between the 1940s and 1960s, in Italy and France, a handful of movie directors revolutionized the art of cinema. In the wake of World War II they entirely re-defined the aesthetics of the 7th art in films such as "Bicycle Thieves," "400 Blows," "Rome... |
| ITALIAN250 | The Oceanic Novel: Woolf, Conrad, Duras, Tournier, Condé, Ortese | This course will examine novels situated by, on, or in the sea. Its guiding questions: how do the immense breadth and depth of the sea relate to human interiority, self-discovery, and the shadow world of dreams? Does the sea mark a boundary, or a d... |
| ITALIAN251 | Writing, Memory, and the Self | Recent work in psychology and neuroscience emphasizes the narrative quality of the self, as we create it and recreate it through language and writing, shaping memories both personal and historical. This process is circular: we grow into the stories w... |
| ITALIAN257 | Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero | What does it mean to say the personal is the political, or, in the case of Arendt, that the personal is not political, especially if you are a woman? This course explores how Weil, De Beauvoir, Arendt, and Caverero contend with the question of perso... |
| ITALIAN261 | War and Peace: Writings by and about Veterans in the 20th and 21st Centuries | Since the aftermath of World War One, and with increasing urgency in contemporary America, stories about and by veterans are assigned a double role: that of exposing the horror of war yet also defending the possibility of a just war, and that of heal... |
| ITALIAN262 | Symbolism in Literature and the Arts | This course will deal with the some of the 19th and 20th century authors and artists associated with Symbolism. We will focus on some key theoretical essays about the symbol, as well as on symbolist poetry, novels, visual arts, cinema, and music. In... |
| ITALIAN265 | Word and Image | What impact do images have on our reading of a text? How do words influence our understanding of images or our reading of pictures? What makes a visual interpretation of written words or a verbal rendering of an image successful? These questions will... |
| ITALIAN272 | Body Doubles: From the Fantastic Short Story to Science-Fiction | How do we imagine our bodies through language, at times almost completely refashioning a physical double, be it idealized or abject? How do such body doubles intersect with our sense of self, defining or redefining sexual identity, spiritual aspirati... |
| ITALIAN286 | Poetry and Philosophy | When and why do philosophers resort to poetry?What is the relationship between poetic metaphor and philosophical argumentation?Why is the poetic often associated with empathy - recently touted as an essential human characteristic - whereas philosoph... |
| ITALIAN288 | Women, Wheat, and Weather? Lessons from Italy and the Global South for the 21st Century | The Global South - a symbolic Mediterranean stretching from the Caribbean to India - lures the civilized man with the promise of excellent weather, voluptuous women, and good food. Already in antiquity, Sicily, the southernmost province of what is to... |
| ITALIAN290 | Magic, Science, and Religion | With the rise of the human sciences in the later nineteenth century, "magic," "science," and "religion" came to be understood as entirely separate domains, with different versions of truth and divergent methods of inquiry. But how has this division b... |
| ITALIAN300 | Italian Modernities: Lecture Series and Course | Lecture series and seminar on modern Italian literature, cinema, and culture. While we emphasize the 20th and 21st centuries, we will include medieval and renaissance topics also. We invite 3-6 speakers per year to address us about their recent work... |
| ITALIAN302 | The Interruption of the Machine: Introduction to Sound Studies through Literature | This course will introduce students to the field of Sound Studies (methodology, vocabulary, main claims) with a focus on the various sonic articulations of human-machine interactions in literature. The world of fiction as a sonic machine that articul... |
| ITALIAN305 | Songs of Love and War: Gender, Crusade, Politics | The course examines the medieval love lyric tradition, including the troubadours, trouvères, and the Italian dolce stil nuovo. Focus on how to understand this tradition in the context of other non-Western lyric and its performative and material conte... |
| ITALIAN314 | Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett | In this course we will read the main novels and plays of Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett, with special emphasis on the existentialist themes of their work. Readings include The Late Mattia Pascal, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV; Naus... |
| ITALIAN315A | The Italian Renaissance, or the Art of Success | How come that, even if you have never set foot in Italy, you have heard of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael? What made them so incredibly famous, back then as well as today? This course examines the shooting of those, and other, artists to fame. I... |
| ITALIAN317 | Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West | Romantic love, it is often claimed, is an invention of the High Middle Ages. The vocabulary of sexual desire that is still current in the twenty-first century was authored in the twelfth and thirteenth, by troubadours, court poets, writers like Dante... |
| ITALIAN320 | Madness, Magic, and Amor in L'Orlando Furioso | This class is an in-depth reading of the Italian epic poem L'Orlando Furioso, written by Ludovico Ariosto in the early sixteenth century. Errant knights, magic, and unpredictable adventures are just a few of the themes that characterize this unique p... |
| ITALIAN321 | Giambattista Vico | An intensive reading of Vico's book - New Science. Emphasis will be on Vico's philosophy of history and theories of poetic wisdom, myth, and language. Vico will be put in dialogue with René Descartes, Rousseau, Auguste Compte, Claude Lévi Strauss,... |
| ITALIAN325 | Petrarch & Petrarchism: Fragments of the Self | In this course we will examine Francis Petrarch's book of Italian lyric poems, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, and its reception in early modern France, England, and Spain. Readings from Petrarch's epistolary and ethical writings will contextualize histor... |
| ITALIAN331 | Leonardo's World: Science, Technology, and Art | Leonardo da Vinci is emblematic of creativity and innovation. His art is iconic, his inventions legendary. His understanding of nature, the human body, and machines made him a scientist and engineer as well as an artist. His fascination with drawing... |
| ITALIAN332B | Heretics, Prostitutes and Merchants: The Venetian Empire | Between 1200-1600, Venice created a powerful empire at the boundary between East and West that controlled much of the Mediterranean, with a merchant society that allowed social groups, religions, and ethnicities to coexist. Topics include the feature... |
| ITALIAN333 | When Worlds Collide: The Trial of Galileo | In 1633, the Italian mathematician Galileo was tried and condemned for advocating that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the cosmos. The Catholic Church did not formally admit that Galileo was right until 1992. Examines the many factors that... |
| ITALIAN337 | Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy | Revered as one of the greatest artists in history, Michelangelo Buonarroti's extraordinarily long and prodigious existence (1475-1564) spanned the Renaissance and the Reformation in Italy. The celebrity artist left behind not only sculptures, paintin... |
| ITALIAN343 | Deep Tech at the Intersection of Literature, Philosophy, and Society | The Oxford English Dictionary defines "Deep Tech" as "the part of the World Wide Web that is not discoverable by means of standard search engines." When startups and companies around Silicon Valley describe themselves as "deep-tech," it means that th... |
| ITALIAN344 | Literature and Technology from Frankenstein to the Futurists | Overview of defects and disorder across crystalline, amorphous, and glassy phases that are central to function and application, spanning metals, ceramics, and soft/biological matter. Structure and properties of simple 0D/1D/2D defects in crystalline... |
| ITALIAN346 | Body over Mind | How does modern fiction, aided by modern philosophy, give the lie to Descartes' famous "I think therefore I am"? And how does writing convey the desire for a different, perhaps stronger, integration of mind and body? Does the body speak a particular... |
| ITALIAN349 | Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art | Why do dating sites rely on photographs? Why do we believe that love is above all a visual force? How is pleasure, even erotic pleasure, achieved through looking? While the psychology of impressions offers some answers, this course uncovers the ways... |
| ITALIAN350 | The Oceanic Novel: Woolf, Conrad, Duras, Tournier, Condé, Ortese | This course will examine novels situated by, on, or in the sea. Its guiding questions: how do the immense breadth and depth of the sea relate to human interiority, self-discovery, and the shadow world of dreams? Does the sea mark a boundary, or a d... |
| ITALIAN351 | Writing, Memory, and the Self | Recent work in psychology and neuroscience emphasizes the narrative quality of the self, as we create it and recreate it through language and writing, shaping memories both personal and historical. This process is circular: we grow into the stories w... |
| ITALIAN352 | Boccaccio's Decameron: The Ethics of Storytelling | This course involves an in-depth study of Boccaccio's Decameron in the context of medieval theories of poetry and interpretation. The goal is to understand more fully the relationship between literature and lived experience implied by Boccaccio's fic... |
| ITALIAN357 | Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero | What does it mean to say the personal is the political, or, in the case of Arendt, that the personal is not political, especially if you are a woman? This course explores how Weil, De Beauvoir, Arendt, and Caverero contend with the question of perso... |
| ITALIAN361 | War and Peace: Writings by and about Veterans in the 20th and 21st Centuries | Since the aftermath of World War One, and with increasing urgency in contemporary America, stories about and by veterans are assigned a double role: that of exposing the horror of war yet also defending the possibility of a just war, and that of heal... |
| ITALIAN362 | Symbolism in Literature and the Arts | This course will deal with the some of the 19th and 20th century authors and artists associated with Symbolism. We will focus on some key theoretical essays about the symbol, as well as on symbolist poetry, novels, visual arts, cinema, and music. In... |
| ITALIAN365 | Word and Image | What impact do images have on our reading of a text? How do words influence our understanding of images or our reading of pictures? What makes a visual interpretation of written words or a verbal rendering of an image successful? These questions will... |
| ITALIAN369 | Introduction to the Profession of Literary Studies | A survey of how literary theory and other methods have been made institutional since the nineteenth century. The readings and conversation are designed for entering Ph.D. students in the national literature departments and comparative literature. |
| ITALIAN372 | Body Doubles: From the Fantastic Short Story to Science-Fiction | How do we imagine our bodies through language, at times almost completely refashioning a physical double, be it idealized or abject? How do such body doubles intersect with our sense of self, defining or redefining sexual identity, spiritual aspirati... |
| ITALIAN373 | Concepts of Modernity I: Nihilism | In the 1885 Preface to his unfinished work The Will to Power, Nietzsche declared: "For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving as toward a catastrophe, restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that... |
| ITALIAN377 | Medieval Lyric: How Lyric Moves | Through the study of various vernacular premodern traditions, this graduate level course examines the qualities that make texts "lyric" and place them into conversation with contemporary theories of lyric. The course will situate medieval lyric withi... |
| ITALIAN386 | Poetry and Philosophy | When and why do philosophers resort to poetry?What is the relationship between poetic metaphor and philosophical argumentation?Why is the poetic often associated with empathy - recently touted as an essential human characteristic - whereas philosoph... |
| ITALIAN390 | Magic, Science, and Religion | With the rise of the human sciences in the later nineteenth century, "magic," "science," and "religion" came to be understood as entirely separate domains, with different versions of truth and divergent methods of inquiry. But how has this division b... |
| ITALIAN395 | Philosophical Reading Group | Discussion of one contemporary or historical text from the Western philosophical tradition per quarter in a group of faculty and graduate students. For admission of new participants, a conversation with Professor Robert Harrison is required. May be r... |
| ITALIAN398 | Intensive Reading in French/Italian | Enrollment is limited to French/Italian Ph.D. students. Course is designed for French/Italian Ph.D. students to prepare for department milestone exams. |
| ITALIAN399 | Individual Work | Repeatable for Credit |
| ITALIAN62N | Art and Healing in the Wake of Covid-19: A Health Humanities Perspective | How have artists contributed to healing during the Covid-19 pandemic? How does art shape or express diverse cultural understandings of health and illness, medicine and the body, death and spirituality, in response to crisis? How do such understanding... |
| ITALIAN75N | Narrative Medicine and Near-Death Experiences | Even if many of us don't fully believe in an afterlife, we remain fascinated by visions of it. This course focuses on Near-Death Experiences and the stories around them, investigating them from the many perspectives pertinent to the growing field of... |
| ITALIAN802 | TGR Dissertation | No Description Set |