Courses
Required Courses
CPLT-090-01 Introduction to Comparative Literature
Professor T. Gentic
Theoretical Approaches to Texts
ENGL-090-01 Methods of Literary and Cultural Studies
Professor P. Fox
ENGL-245-01 Introduction to Cultural Studies
Professor E. Gorman
ENGL-247 Political Documentary
Professor J. Young
ENGL-248 Problems in Postmodernism
Professor E. Tietz
ENGL-255 History of New Media
Professor C. Benson-Allott
ENGL-261 Introduction to Queer Theory
Professor J. Brogan
RUSS-372 Modernism in Russian Literature
Professor G. Mihaychuk
SPAN-406 Introduction to Critical Theory
Professor A. Yarza
SPAN-491 Ethnography: Colombian Conflict
Professor J. Rappaport
SPAN-495-01 Colonial & Post-Colonial Readings
Professor V. Salles-Reese
SPAN-496 Adaptation
Professor E. Francomano
Professor T. Gentic
TPST-130 Play Analysis
Professor M. Roth
Professor N. Onoda Power
Comparative Approaches
Courses in many departments (Language and Literature departments, English, History, Theater and Performance Studies) can fulfill the major requirement to take at least one elective in a course with a comparative approach to literature. The list given here provides a sample of courses that approach genres, languages, and methodologies comparatively and should help students to choose courses in their areas of interest.
ENGL-245-01 Introduction to Cultural Studies
Professor E. Gorman
FREN-380-01 Quebec Film Classics
Professor M. Santoro
FREN-434 Contemporary Quebec Society/Film
Professor M. Santoro
HIST-331 The Present and the Past
Professor J. Collins
ITAL-384 Theater and Opera
Professor G. Cicali
SPAN-398 Film, Literature, Dictatorship
Professor T. Gentic
Professor V. Santos
SPAN-493 Framed: Stories that Move in Chains
Professor E. Francomano
SPAN-496 Adaptation
Professor E. Francomano
Professor T. Gentic
SPAN-499-01 Lit & Visual Cult in Latin America
Professor G. Kirkpatrick
Professor N. Onoda Power
TPST-333 US Latino/a Drama and Performance
Professor C. Evans
Courses in Translation
ARAB-199 The Arab Novel
Professor E. Colla
ARAB-399-01 The Arab Novel
Professor E. Colla
Professor Zhang
Professor Kafalas
CHIN-354 Reading Chinese Landscapes
Professor Kafalas
CLSS-220-01 Sexuality and Love in Greek Literature
Professor V. Pedrick
Professor Pireddu
Professor McAuliffe
ITAL-371 Futurisms: Italy and Russia
Professors Pireddu and Mihaychuk
ITAL-372 Dante and the Medieval Mind
Staff
ITAL-374 Dante: The Vision and the Poet
Professor McAuliffe
Professor F. Ciabattoni
Professor A. De Fina
Professor Pireddu
JAPN-411 Japanese Literature in Film
Professor M. McCaskey
KREN-361 Korean Myths and Folklore
Professor H. Yoo
MVST-315 Malory's King Arthur
Professor K. Mudan
RUSS-371 Italian and Russian Futurisms
Professors Pireddu and Mihaychuk
RUSS-372 Russian Literary Modernism
Professor G. Mihaychuk
RUSS-375 Russian Novel
Professor G. Mihaychuk
RUSS-376 Russian Drama
Professor Petrochenkov
RUSS-379 Gogol: Cross-Disciplinary Quotes
Professor O. Meerson
RUSS-463 Dostoevsky
Professor O. Meerson
RUSS-468 Russian Folklore
Professors Brougher and Stephens
RUSS-469 The Russian Novel: Doctor Zhivago
Professor Petrochenkov
Professor L. Fedorova
RUSS-472 Post-Soviet Russian Prose
Staff
Professor O. Meerson
Professor L. Fedorova
Professor L. Fedorova
Professor Brougher
Professor L. Fedorova
SPAN-453 Spanish Mystics (in English)
Professor B. Mujica
TURK-352 Turkic Folklore
Professor ?nder
Professor S. Onder
TURK-363 Anthropology, Colonialism, and Islam
Professor S. Onder
Other Courses For Comparative Literature Majors
AMST-320-01 Gender/Media/Culture
AMST-361-01 American Gothic
Professor G. LeMasters
AMST-389-01 Film Noir
ARAB-333 Classical Arabic Prose I
ARAB-360 1001 Nights
Professor E. Colla
ARAB-363 Anthropology, Colonialism, and Islam
Professor S. Onder
ARAB-399-01 The Arab Novel
Professor E. Colla
CHIN-325 Advanced Readings in Chinese
Professor Li
Professor Zhang
Professor Kafalas
CHIN-354 Reading Chinese Landscapes
Professor Kafalas
CHIN-360 Chinese Literary Dream Texts
Professor Kafalas
CHIN-406 Reading Lu Xun
Jingyuan Zhang
CHIN-461 Modern Chinese Fiction
Professor Zhang
CHIN-462 Contemporary Chinese Women Writers
Professor Zhang
CHIN-463-01 Survey of Chinese Literary Genres
Yu, Chen-Yieh Catherine
CHIN-464 Modern Chinese Drama
Professor Zhang
CHIN-466-01 Readings in Chinese Humanities
Professor P. Kafalas
CHIN-467-01 Chinese Avant-Garde Fiction
Jingyuan Zhang
CLSG-200 Homer
Professor C. McNelis
CLSG-205-01 Greek Lyric
Professor A. Sens
CLSG-210-01 Greek Hymns
Nousia
Professor V. Pedrick
CLSL-102 Latin Poetry
Professor J. Osgood
CLSL-109 Medieval Latin
Professor C. McNelis
CLSL-210-01 Roman Drama
Professor J. Osgood
CLSL-243-01 Petronius
Nesholm, Erika
CLSL-244 Tacitus
CLSL-249-01 Ovid
Nousia
Professor A. Sens
CLSL-310 ADV LATIN READING:CAESAR/LUCAN
Professor C. McNelis
CLSS-220-01 Sexuality and Love in Greek Literature
Professor V. Pedrick
CLSS-261 Greek Tragedy
Professor V. Pedrick
CLSS-262 Greek Tragedy and Politics
Professor Parara
CLSS-420-01 Power/Image/Propaganda
ENGL-108 Chaucer
Professor S. McNamer
ENGL-131 Women in Shakespeare
Professor K. Mudan
ENGL-146 17th Century Poetry
Professor N. Sugimura
Professor D. Todd
ENGL-179 Staging Anti-Slavery
Professor G. Cima
ENGL-184 Oscar Wilde & Late Victorian Culture
Professor P. O'Malley
ENGL-187 Wordsworth in 1799
Professor D. Wu
Professor R. Patterson
ENGL-234 Seminar: African Drama
Professor S. Pinto
ENGL-237 African American Poetry
Professor L. Rifkin
ENGL-238 Modern British Class Novel
Professor P. Fox
ENGL-246 Orwell Between Culture and System
Professor A. Rubin
ENGL-269 Television & American Society
Professor K. Cole
ENGL-278-20 Crips: Disability/Autobiography
ENGL-290 Women's Autobiography
Professor M. Corrigan
ENGL-292 Prison Literature
Professor P. O'Connor
ENGL-319 Contexts for the Study of Sexuality
Professor D. Luciano
ENGL-323 Poems: Theory and Practice
Professor D. Gewanter
FREN-263 French Theater Workshop: Moliere
Professor R. Bensky
Professor G. Spielmann
Professor R. Bensky
Professor R. Bensky
Professor R. Bensky
Professor R. Bensky
Professor R. Bensky
FREN-325 Acting Absurd Theater in English
Professor R. Bensky
Professor A. Kone
Professor M. Santoro
FREN-334 French Art
Professor A. Roman
FREN-335 Contemporary Belgian Culture
Professor P. Taminiaux
Professor S. Lee
FREN-362 Lit/Soc in French Middle Ages
Professor C. Dover
FREN-363 Textual Analysis: Poetry
FREN-365 Spectacle in Early Modern France
Professor G. Spielmann
Professor A. Roman
FREN-367 Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century
Professor P. Young
FREN-368 Coming of Age in the 18th Century
Professor P. Young
Professor S. Lee
FREN-375 Advanced Theater Workshop
Professor R. Bensky
Professor A. Sobanet
Professor A. Sobanet
FREN-431 Topics in the Anthropology of France
Professor S. Terrio
Professor S. Terrio
FREN-434 Contemporary Quebec Society/Film
Professor M. Santoro
Professor A. Sobanet
FREN-436 Interpreting Contemporary French Culture: Intercultural Perspectives on French Attitudes and Values
Professor S. Terrio
Professor A. Kone
Professor A. Kone
FREN-454 African Self-Perceptions
Professor A. Kone
FREN-460 Christian Paths in French Literature
Professor P. Laude
FREN-461 Le Voyage Spirituel
Professor P. Laude
FREN-462 Modern Francophone Women Novelists
Professor M. Santoro
Professor D. Lesko Baker
Professor P. Laude
Professor P. Laude
Professor Soud?e
FREN-467 20th Century French Art: Poetry
Professor P. Taminiaux
Professor M. Santoro
Professor D. Lesko Baker
Professor S. Lee
Professor P. Taminiaux
FREN-472 Myths in French Literature
Professor D. Lesko Baker
Professor S. Durmelat
Professor S. Durmelat
Professor S. Durmelat
Professor M. Santoro
Professor M. Santoro
Professor S. Lee
FREN-489 Myths in French Literature
Professor D. Lesko Baker
Staff
GERM-220 Imaginary Voyages
Murti, Kamakshi
GERM-240 Contemporary Literature
Professor P. Pfeiffer
GERM-251 Ritter, Räuber, Abenteurer
Professor F. Hoppe
GERM-255 Isn't It Romantic
Professor A. Weigert
GERM-262 Grim(m) Fairytales
Staff
GERM-263 Weimar Literature and Culture
Professor P. Pfeiffer
GERM-276 Persistence of Evil: German Novella
Professor G. Murphy
GERM-332 Language and Images--the Media Scene
Professor Fink
Professor K. Sieg
GERM-348 Glücksspieler, Schatzjäger, Türhüter
Hoppe, Felicitas
GERM-360 Survey of German Literature
Professors Eigler and Pfeiffer
GERM-361 Radio Plays (Hoerspiele) in German
Professor Fink
Wellmon, Chad
GERM-366 Bertolt Brecht
Professor Murphy
GERM-367 Enter the Actress
Professor Mary Helen Dupree
GERM-370-01 The 20th Century Drama: War and Human Experience
Professor G. Murphy
GERM-394 Images of Childhood
Professor M. Dupree
Schneider, Helmut
GERM-398 German Cinema
Professor P. Pfeiffer
Professor H. Byrnes
Professor F. Eigler
GERM-432 German Cinema
Professor P. Pfeiffer
GERM-433 Literature of Migration
Professor K. Sieg
GERM-435 Franz Kafka: Modernism in Literature
Helmut Schneider
Professor G. Murphy
GERM-446 Enter the Actress
Professor M. H. Dupree
GERM-452 Turn-of-the-Century Vienna
Professor F. Eigler
GERM-459 Writing Our Selves
Professor H. Byrnes
GERM-460 German Realist Novel
Professor Pfeiffer
Professors F. Eigler and P. Pfeiffer
GERM-462 Women and the Follies Men Do
Professor Pfeiffer
Professor Murphy
GERM-465 German Classicism
Professor G. Murphy
GERM-467 German Romanticism
Professor G. Murphy
GERM-469 19th-Century German Realism
Professor P. Pfeiffer
Professor Murphy
GERM-471 Franz Kafka
Professor Wheeler
Professor P. Pfeiffer
GERM-492 Monastery to Chatroom
Professor H. Byrnes
ITAL-311 Topics in Italian Art and Literature
Professor S. Hager
ITAL-313 Italian Images of America
Professor Severino
Professor A. De Fina
Professor L. Benedetti
Professor Benedetti
ITAL-360 Giallo! Italian Detective Fiction
Professor Nicoletta Pireddu
Professor McAuliffe
Professor Pireddu
Professor McAuliffe
ITAL-365 Chivalric Poetry in Italy
Professor McAuliffe
ITAL-367 Pirandello's Masks
Professor Benedetti
Professor Benedetti
ITAL-372 Dante and the Medieval Mind
Staff
Professor McAuliffe
ITAL-374 Dante: The Vision and the Poet
Professor McAuliffe
Professor F. Ciabattoni
ITAL-379 Poetry of Courtly Love in Italy
Professor McAuliffe
Professor L. Benedetti
ITAL-381 Italian Contemporary Poetry
Professors Benedetti and Hager
Professor Pireddu
ITAL-384 Theater and Opera
Professor G. Cicali
Professor G. Cicali
ITAL-386 Italian Theater Workshop
Professor G. Cicali
Professor Gianni Cicali
Professor A. De Fina
Professor A. De Fina
ITAL-411 From Novel to Film: Cultural Dialog
Professor Laura Benedetti
ITAL-412 Boccaccio
Professor McAuliffe
ITAL-413 Sicily in Cinema and Literature
Professor Severino
ITAL-425 From Mazzini to the Euro: The European Consciousness in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature
Professor Pireddu
Professor Pireddu
Magris Claudio
ITAL-445 Betrayals of Translation
Professor Pireddu
Professor G. Cicali
ITAL-460 Dante
Professor F. Ciabattoni
ITAL-465 Verismo
Professor Severino
Professor McAuliffe
ITAL-467 Italian Theater
Professor Severino
ITAL-469 Manzoni
Professor Severino
Professor Pireddu
Professor Pireddu
Professor N. Pireddu
Professor K. Doak
Professor J. Sand
JAPN-359 Readings in Political Culture
Professor K. Doak
JAPN-361 Readings in Japanese Literature
Professor M. McCaskey
JAPN-372 Readings in Language and Culture
Professor Y. Mori
JAPN-406 Endo Shusaku
Professor K. Doak
JAPN-411 Japanese Literature in Film
Professor M. McCaskey
JAPN-412 Japanese Anime Film
Professor M. McCaskey
JAPN-414 Haiku Images
Professor M. McCaskey
Staff
KREN-352 Korean Literature after 1900
Staff
KREN-361 Korean Myths and Folklore
Professor H. Yoo
Professor H. Yoo
KREN-363-01 Heroes and Legends
Professor I. Marshall
MVST-221 Apocalypse: Word/Stone/Image
Meyer, Ann
MVST-315 Malory's King Arthur
Professor K. Mudan
PHIL-159 Existentialism
Magid, Oren (omm6)
PHIL-276 Dante and the Christian Imagination
Professor F. Ambrosio
Professor V. Santos
RUSS-365 Chekhov
Professor G. Mihaychuk
RUSS-367 Translating the Untranslatable
Professor O. Meerson
RUSS-371 Italian and Russian Futurisms
Professors Pireddu and Mihaychuk
RUSS-372 Russian Literary Modernism
Professor G. Mihaychuk
RUSS-377 Development of the Short Story
Staff
RUSS-379 Gogol: Cross-Disciplinary Quotes
Professor O. Meerson
Professor O. Meerson
RUSS-461 Pushkin: Eugine Onegin
Professor S. Grenier
RUSS-462 Chekhov: Prose and Drama
Professor G. Mihaychuk
RUSS-463 Dostoevsky
Professor O. Meerson
RUSS-464 Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
Professor S. Grenier
RUSS-465 Russian Poetry: Sin and Grace
Professor O. Meerson
RUSS-467 The Russian Novel: War and Peace
Professor Morris
RUSS-468 Russian Folklore
Professors Brougher and Stephens
RUSS-469 The Russian Novel: Doctor Zhivago
Professor Petrochenkov
Professor S. Grenier
RUSS-472 Post-Soviet Russian Prose
Staff
RUSS-473 19th Century Heroines and Antiheroes
Professor O. Meerson
Professor O. Meerson
Professor O. Meerson
Professor L. Fedorova
Professor L. Fedorova
Professor Meerson
RUSS-482 Russia: Spirituality as Subtext
Professor Meerson
RUSS-483 Pushkin: Eugene Onegin
Professor S. Grenier
Professor Brougher
Professor M. Morris
Professor L. Fedorova
RUSS-492 Master and Margarita
Professor L. Fedorova
SPAN-241 Survey of Spanish Literature I
Professor E. Francomano
SPAN-242 Survey of Spanish Literature II
Professor F. LaRubia-Prado
Professor G. Kirkpatrick
Professor V. Salles-Reese
Professor G. Kirkpatrick
Professor T. Gentic
SPAN-341 Hispanic Cinema
Professor A. Yarza
SPAN-350 Contemporary Spanish Women Writers
Professor E. Francomano
SPAN-406 Introduction to Critical Theory
Professor V. Santos
SPAN-446 Early Modern Spanish Theater
Professor B. Mujica
SPAN-462 Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Professor Francomano
SPAN-464 Don Quixote
Professor B. Mujica
SPAN-499 Borges
Professor G. Kirkpatrick
Professor N. Prieur
