Department: Modern Thought and Literature

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MTL200Curricular Practical TrainingNo Description Set
MTL299Edgework: New Directions in the Study of CultureWorkshop. Required of first-year students in the doctoral program. Methodologies of different disciplines, the possibility and difficulty of interdisciplinary work within these disciplines, and their connection with the individual projects of studen...
MTL334AConcepts of Modernity I: NihilismIn 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...
MTL334BConcepts of Modernity II: Performing IdentitiesThis course examines claims and counter-claims of identity, a heated political and cultural concept over the past few decades. We will consider the ways in which theories of performance have offered generative discursive frameworks for the study of i...
MTL334CIntroduction to Interdisciplinary StudiesOur course serves both as an introduction to graduate studies and as an introduction to interdisciplinary practice for entering PhD students in MTL at Stanford. Required for first-year graduate students, our course examines major historical and theor...
MTL390Qualifying PaperPreparation and writing of the qualifying paper for the Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature. (Staff)
MTL398Graduate Independent StudyStudents pursue a special subject of investigation under supervision of a member of the committee or another faculty member. May be repeated for credit.
MTL399Reading for OralsReading in preparation for the University Oral Examination. May be repeated for credit.
MTL801TGR ProjectNo Description Set
MTL802TGR DissertationNo Description Set