(Offered as GEOL-253 and ENST-253) Geospatial inquiry is an iterative creative process that involves asking, answering, and communicating the results of questions using data linked to geographic locations. The anticipated results of this process are thoughtfully assembled maps and geographic datasets that serve as accessible, persuasive, and even beautiful means of conveying large amounts of complex information. Geospatial thinking is a critical skill for pursuing a systems-based perspective on our rapidly changing and interconnected world.

(Offered as EUST 122 and HIST 122[EU/TC/TE]) Readings in European Traditions II will provide an overview of major historical developments in modern European history, including the development of the modern state and society, the transformation of early modern political and social structures under the impact of modern ideologies, revolutions and mass politics, the emergence of nation-states in imperial contexts, the contested definition of boundaries of Europeanness. Limited to 25 students. 

Spring semester. Professor TBA.

(Offered as ENGL 482 and FAMS 422) As an advanced seminar in Film and Media Studies, this course will explore particular figure(s), movements, and/or institutions which have been central to the development of film theory and criticism. By focusing attention on the historical context of these figures or movements, the course will enable students to develop an understanding of both film theory and historical analysis.

Examining media and literature in the orbit of Palestine, it is devastatingly clear that, as Edward Said articulated, “facts do not speak for themselves.” This class will study Palestinian literature’s potential to intervene in imperial histories that have been built on decades of ethnic cleansing and archival destruction. First, we’ll study twentieth-century Palestinian history linearly, examining narrative literature on Ottoman Palestine, the British Mandate, the 1948 Nakba, the 1967 Naksa, the Lebanese Civil War, and the Intifadas.

(Offered as ENGL 388 and FAMS 240.)

(Offered as ENGL 382 and FAMS 355) From its very beginnings, the moving image has shared a close affinity with the uncanny — the strange, mysterious, or unfamiliar. Whether in its ability to preserve the images of people and places long since passed, its disorienting illusion of live-ness, or its fantastic depictions of impossible worlds, cinema has long elicited shock, amazement, and unease in its spectators.

(Offered as ENGL 360, BLST 360, and SWAG 360) This course explores the life and writings of American author James Baldwin. Born in poverty-stricken Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance (where he spent his childhood as a Pentecostal boy-preacher), Baldwin went on to become one of the twentieth century’s most influential essayists, novelists, orators, and political commentators---particularly around issues related to American race relations.

(Offered as ENGL 352 and AMST 355) In this course, we will leave the classroom and get out on the land. The class begins in winter, a time when many people huddle indoors. We will instead go outside and read the winterland, beginning with a tracking workshop. Readings will include Robin Kimmerer’s influential essay, “The Language of Animacy,” which uses the lens of Indigenous languages to reconsider the boundaries of personhood. We will discuss how language shapes the ways in which we categorize other beings, such as animals and trees, as well as other humans.

(Offered as EUST 303, ENGL 320 and RUSS 310) Acts of translation underwrite many kinds of cultural production, often invisibly. Writers of the Harlem Renaissance, for instance, engaged with black internationalism through bilingualism and translation, as Brent Edwards has reminded us. In this course we will study literary translation as a creative practice involved in the making of subjects and cultures. We will read key statements about translation by theorists and translators, such as Walter Benjamin, Roman Jakobson, Lawrence Venuti, Peter Cole and Gayatri Spivak.

(Offered as EUST 303, ENGL 320 and RUSS 310) Acts of translation underwrite many kinds of cultural production, often invisibly. Writers of the Harlem Renaissance, for instance, engaged with black internationalism through bilingualism and translation, as Brent Edwards has reminded us. In this course we will study literary translation as a creative practice involved in the making of subjects and cultures. We will read key statements about translation by theorists and translators, such as Walter Benjamin, Roman Jakobson, Lawrence Venuti, Peter Cole and Gayatri Spivak.