Comparative Literature (COML)Arts and Sciences

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COML 1109
FWS: Writing Across Cultures

Matches the first track in our major, Comparative Literary Studies. This course rubric deals with literary works from different cultures or historical periods. Consult the John. S. Knight Writing Seminar ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: You Don't Know Me

  • 17638 COML 1109   SEM 101

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Cannibal Cultures

  • 17641 COML 1109   SEM 104

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: The Third World and TravelPorn?

  • 17639 COML 1109   SEM 105

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: A Taste of Russian Literature

  • 17642 COML 1109   SEM 106

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Science Fiction

  • 17643 COML 1109   SEM 107

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

COML 1126
FWS: Comparative Arts and Media

Matches the second track in our major, Literary, Visual, and Media Studies.  This course rubric deals with courses that compare literature to film, video, performance, and other arts. Consult the John. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Violence and Visuality

  • 17629 COML 1126   SEM 101

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Remix Culture

  • 17630 COML 1126   SEM 102

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

COML 2000
Introduction to Visual Studies

This course will introduce you to the field of Visual Studies.  Visual Studies seeks to define and improve our visual relationship to nature and culture after the modern surge in technology and knowledge.  ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2000, ARTH 2000, VISST 2000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7270 COML 2000   LEC 001

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  • 17263 COML 2000   DIS 201

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  • 17264 COML 2000   DIS 202

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  • 17265 COML 2000   DIS 203

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  • 17266 COML 2000   DIS 204

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  • 17267 COML 2000   DIS 205

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  • 17268 COML 2000   DIS 206

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  • 18430 COML 2000   DIS 207

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  • 18431 COML 2000   DIS 208

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COML 2021
Humans and Climate Change

This course explores the human dimension of climate change, arguably the most significant crisis ever to confront humanity. The focus of this course will be narratives--the stories we tell ourselves as ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: EAS 2021, ROMS 2021

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16375 COML 2021   SEM 101

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

COML 2230
The Comic Theater

Study and analysis of 2500 years of comedy (all in English), from Greece (Aristophanes, Menander), Rome (Plautus and Terence), Italy (Machiavelli, The commedia dell' arte), Elizabethan (Shakespeare, Ben ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 2651, PMA 2635

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 14943 COML 2230   LEC 001

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COML 2290
Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies

This course offers an introduction to the questions, topics, approaches, and theories that characterize the field of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 2290, LGBT 2290

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16824 COML 2290   LEC 001

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COML 2580
Imagining the Holocaust

How is the memory of the Holocaust kept alive by means of the literary and visual imagination? Within the historical context of the Holocaust and how and why it occurred, we shall examine major and widely ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2580, JWST 2580

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8575 COML 2580   LEC 001

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COML 3021
Literary Theory on the Edge

This course juxtaposes the exciting theoretical advances of the late 20th century, including structuralism and post-structuralism, with current developments in 21st century theory such as performance studies, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  9213 COML 3021   LEC 001

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COML 3460
The Art of Subversive Writing

Writers are often unable to treat the most deeply controversial issues within their societies persuasively and safely by direct and open challenge, especially in ages and cultures which enforce conformity ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 3646

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15533 COML 3460   SEM 101

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COML 3485
Cinematic Cities

Beginning in the early days of silent cinema, a rich tradition of what are called "city films," combines technological innovation with the exploration of specific urban spaces.  Students in this class ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3485, ITAL 3485, SPAN 3485

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16891 COML 3485   SEM 101

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COML 3541
Introduction to Critical Theory

Shortly after the last election, The New Yorker published an article entitled "The Frankfurt School Knew Trump was Coming." This course examines what the Frankfurt School knew by introducing students to ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one discussion. Combined with: ENGL 3920, GERST 3620, GOVT 3636

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17200 COML 3541   SEM 101

  • Taught in English.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  • 17208 COML 3541   DIS 201

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

  • 17209 COML 3541   DIS 202

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

  • 18417 COML 3541   DIS 203

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

  • 18418 COML 3541   DIS 204

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

COML 3743
Minorities of the Middle East

This course examines the historic diversity of the modern Middle East, exploring histories of inter-communal contact and conflict. We begin by investigating the legacy of the Ottoman Empire and the impact ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: JWST 3655, NES 3655, NES 6655

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16028 COML 3743   LEC 001

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COML 3800
Poetry and Poetics of the Americas

As globalization draws the Americas ever closer together, reshaping our sense of a common and uncommon American culture, what claims might be made for a distinctive, diverse poetry and poetics of the America? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16350 COML 3800   SEM 101

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COML 3811
Theory and Practice of Translation

The modern field of translation studies overlaps most closely with literary studies, but it intersects also with fields such as linguistics and politics.  The intense work in translation studies in the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9211 COML 3811   SEM 101

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COML 3891
Occupied France Through Film

The Second World War and the Occupation of France by German forces had a traumatic impact on the nation's identity.  We will examine the way France has tried to deal with this conflicted period through ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3840

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15847 COML 3891   SEM 101

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COML 4001
Aesthetics of Authenticity

A comprehensive survey of philosophical aesthetics from its inception in the 18th century to the present, this class will pay special attention to questions of authenticity and originality. Theories of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17288 COML 4001   SEM 101

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COML 4200
Independent Study

COML 4190 and COML 4200 may be taken independently of each other. Undergraduate student and faculty advisor to determine course of study and credit hours. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6370 COML 4200   IND 602

    • TBA

    • Ahl, F

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7958 COML 4200   IND 603

    • TBA

    • Bachner, A

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7675 COML 4200   IND 606

    • TBA

    • Caruth, C

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7676 COML 4200   IND 607

    • TBA

    • Castillo, D

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8204 COML 4200   IND 612

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    • TBA

    • Diabate, N

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7677 COML 4200   IND 613

    • TBA

    • Dubreuil, L

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7680 COML 4200   IND 618

    • TBA

    • Melas, N

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7681 COML 4200   IND 619

    • TBA

    • Monroe, J

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7682 COML 4200   IND 623

    • TBA

    • Pollak, N

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18750 COML 4200   IND 631

    • TBA

    • Shoer, S

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

COML 4429
Walter Benjamin

This extraordinary figure died in 1941, and his death  is emblematic of the intellectual depradations of Nazism. Yet since World War II, his influence, his reputation, and his fascination for scholars ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 15014 COML 4429   SEM 101

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COML 4616
Undocumentation

In this seminar we will sustain a particular reading of post-1984 Mexico-US border cultural production as "undocumentation." Specifically, we will focus on performance, conceptual, and cinematic practices ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16491 COML 4616   SEM 101

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COML 4618
Thinking Through Transparency

The course reads theoretical texts on liberalism, neoliberalism, and corruption in dialogue with science fiction/fantasy narratives, literary and visual. We will study how the aesthetic features of these ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SHUM 4622

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16481 COML 4618   SEM 101

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COML 4832
The Modern Imagination: The Major Authors

Following my credo, "Always the text; always historicize," The Modern Imagination: Major Authors has been a successful course for relatively advanced undergraduates as well as for Ph.D students and MFAs. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4535, ENGL 6530

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18728 COML 4832   SEM 101

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COML 4860
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

What gives contemporary poetry and poetics its resonance and value? What are its dominant features, audiences, and purposes? What does 21st-century poetry's textual environment look like, and how does ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 18030 COML 4860   SEM 101

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COML 4930
Senior Essay

Times TBA individually in consultation with director of Senior Essay Colloquium. Approximately 50 pages to be written over the course of two semesters in the student's senior year under the direction of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8083 COML 4930   IND 601

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    • TBA

    • Caruth, C

COML 4940
Senior Essay

Times TBA individually in consultation with director of Senior Essay Colloquium. Approximately 50 pages to be written over the course of two semesters in the student's senior year under the direction of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16434 COML 4940   IND 601

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    • TBA

    • Caruth, C

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9597 COML 4940   IND 602

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    • TBA

    • Ahl, F

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8562 COML 4940   IND 603

    • TBA

    • Bachner, A

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7684 COML 4940   IND 604

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    • TBA

    • Banerjee, A

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9598 COML 4940   IND 606

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    • TBA

    • Caruth, C

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7685 COML 4940   IND 607

  •  
    • TBA

    • Castillo, D

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8176 COML 4940   IND 612

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    • TBA

    • Diabate, N

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7686 COML 4940   IND 613

  •  
    • TBA

    • Dubreuil, L

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7690 COML 4940   IND 618

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    • TBA

    • Melas, N

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7691 COML 4940   IND 619

  •  
    • TBA

    • Monroe, J

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7692 COML 4940   IND 623

  •  
    • TBA

    • Pollak, N

  • If you do not see the faculty member you wish to work with, please use 601.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18359 COML 4940   IND 629

    • TBA

    • Mohanty, S

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18725 COML 4940   IND 630

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    • TBA

    • Suber, P

COML 4945
Body Politics in African Literature and Cinema

The course examines how postcolonial African writers and filmmakers engage with and revise controversial images of bodies and sexuality--genital cursing, same-sex desire, HIV/AIDS, genital surgeries, etc. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17319 COML 4945   SEM 101

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COML 6159
Literary Theory on the Edge

Without literary theory, there is no idea of literature, of criticism, of culture. While exciting theoretical paradigms emerged in the late 20th century, including structuralism and poststructuralism, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 18615 COML 6159   LEC 001

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COML 6200
Independent Study

Graduate Students: please bring your faculty signed proposal to 240 Goldwin Smith Hall. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8186 COML 6200   IND 603

    • TBA

    • Bachner, A

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7687 COML 6200   IND 604

    • TBA

    • Banerjee, A

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9588 COML 6200   IND 606

    • TBA

    • Caruth, C

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7688 COML 6200   IND 607

    • TBA

    • Castillo, D

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9589 COML 6200   IND 612

    • TBA

    • Diabate, N

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9590 COML 6200   IND 613

    • TBA

    • Dubreuil, L

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9593 COML 6200   IND 618

    • TBA

    • Melas, N

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9594 COML 6200   IND 619

    • TBA

    • Monroe, J

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18766 COML 6200   IND 631

    • TBA

    • Boyarin, J

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

COML 6221
Postcolonial Theory: Then and Now

"All decolonization," wrote Frantz Fanon, "is successful at the level of description."  With an focus on the difference between description and critique and on the uneven relation between the academic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17289 COML 6221   SEM 101

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COML 6285
Early Modern Translations

Translation is a cultural, conceptual, and political problem. It lies at the heart of the literary itself. Methodological discussions of "world" literature hinge on it, and Renaissance culture is unthinkable ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6285

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15703 COML 6285   SEM 101

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COML 6702
Italian Thought

Deleuze and Guattari famously quipped that Italy lacked "a milieu" for philosophy, that its thinkers remained comets and that Italy had the habit of "burning" its comets. In this course we will not take ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ITAL 6510

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15866 COML 6702   SEM 101

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COML 6707
Surface Theories

Contemporary theory has turned surface phenomena into the grounds and foundations for conceptual work: from moebius-strips to simulacra, from skin to screens, from folds to planes. But theory's "superficial" ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17290 COML 6707   SEM 101

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COML 6865
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

What gives contemporary poetry and poetics its resonance and value? What are its dominant features, audiences, and purposes? What does 21st-century poetry's environment look like, and how does it situate ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17329 COML 6865   SEM 101

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