Courses of Interest
Fall 2013
Rebecca Spang, "Psychoanalysis and History," History, H 620.
Jacob Emery, "Puzzles and Puzzlers," Comparative Literature, C 603/ Slavic, R 601.
Claudia Breger, “Affects and Sexualities in 20th- and 21st-Century Culture," German, G 625.
Jon Simons, "Reading the Text: Benjamin’s Arcades Project," Communication & Culture, C 636.
Spring 2013
Communication and Culture, C 611, Jon Simons, "Aesthetics and Politics"
Comparative Literature, C 647, Jacob Emery, "Doubles, Copy Clerks, and Clones"
English, L 740, Andrew Miller, "Aesthetics, Genre, & Form"
Germanic Studies, G 577, Benjamin Robinson, "Post-Catastrophic Cultural Engagement: 1949-1990"
History, H 680, Michael Dodson, "Postcolonial Theory"
Philosophy, P 526, Sandra Shapshay, "Schopenhauer and Nietzsche"
Fall 2012
Communication and Culture, C 503, Joshua Malitsky, "Introduction to Media Theory & Aesthetics"
Comparative Literature, C501/ Germanic Studies, G505, Eyal Peretz, Michel Chaouli, "Poetic Thinking"
Philosophy, P 730, Adam Leite, "Philosophy and Contemporary Psychoanalysis"
Religious Studies, R 665, Constance Furey, "Interpretations of Religion"
Spanish & Portuguese, S 512, Patrick Dove, "Theory and Criticism"
Spring 2012
Germanic Studies, G575, Michel Chaouli, "Romanticism and Its Consequences"
History, H 620, Rebecca Spang, "Past and Future in 19th-Century Europe"
Religious Studies, R 581, Nancy Levene, "Religion, Reason & Literature"
Spanish & Portuguese, S 688, Anke Birkenmaier, "Avant-garde Movements in the Caribbean"
Spanish & Portuguese, S 695, Patrick Dove, "Literature and Modernity in the Southern Cone"
Fall 2011
Communication and Culture, C608, Jon Simons, "Images and Critique in Public Culture "
Communication and Culture, C634, Ilana Gershon "Networks, Systems and Flows"
Cultural Studies, C701, Lessie Frazier, "Desire and the Racialized Erotics of Political Culture"
English, L758, Ivan Kreilkamp, "Life and the Living"
French and Italian, F564, Oana Panaïté, "Issues in Literary Theory: The Trouble with Literature"
Germanic Studies, G505, William Rasch, "Max Weber and His Legacy: Rationality, Rationalization, Technology"
Germanic Studies, G 825, Johannes Türk, "The Laokoon Project: Visuality, Narrativity, and Affect in the Eighteenth Century"
History, H650/H680, Eric Sandweiss, "Space and Place in History"
Religious Studies, R665, Nancy Levene, "Interpretations of Religion"
Spring 2011
Communication and Culture, C636, Jon Simons, "Reading the Text"
History, H680, Michael Dodson, "Foucault, Post-Structuralism, Post-Colonialism"
