Courses

For M.A. Students. Permission of Program Director required.

For M.A. Students. Permission of Program Director required.

For M.A. Students. Permission of Program Director required.

For M.A. Students. Permission of Program Director required.

Provides MA students with the core tools for interdisciplinary Humanities scholarship. It introduces basic techniques and methodologies of conducting, presenting and publishing research, with an emphasis on qualitative methods. Students practice, and reflect on, the process of planning, carrying out, and presenting research in ways that are adequate for specific contexts, topics, and problematics in the Humanities.

This graduate seminar, crosslisted in Translation Studies and Humanities, examines the intersections of travel writing and translation through perspectives that help to see these activities as intertwined, co-constitutive, and often involving parallel processes with shared concerns in practice and in terms of theories brought to bear on their analyses.

For Ph.D. Students. Permission of program director required.

For Ph.D. Students. Permission of program director required.

For Ph.D. Students. Permission of program director required.

For Ph.D. Students. Permission of program director required.

This course introduces graduate students to the thought of French philosopher Gille Deleuze and his often co-author Félix Guattari. Some of the commonly used (and often misunderstood) concepts in Critical Theory were produced by the pair of French activists and intellectuals. This course surveys 12 among the most important concepts either created by Deleuze and Guattari or redefined by them. Course credit exclusion: GS/SPTH 6651 3.00

Introduces students to the conditions of emergence and development of the discipline of Comparative Literature from its beginnings in nineteenth-century Europe to its most recent global iteration of World Literature. Students will experience how expanded understandings of cultural translation and textuality have radically altered and expanded the Eurocentric character of the discipline. Questions for investigation includes: How have the aesthetics and politics of Comparative Literature changed over the past two hundred years? What factors have influenced those changes? How is World Literature related to Comparative Literature? How do both relate to colonial, post-colonial, diasporic, cultural and translation studies and digital humanities?

This interdisciplinary course introduces students to debates and perspectives on Latin American and Caribbean studies and links theory with practice in the field. Supported by numerous CERLAC Fellows from a range of disciplines, students from different graduate programs and areas of study will collaborate together in teams on applied research projects.

The aim of this seminar is to introduce students to 20th century revolutionary thought that was produced through black struggle against legacies of slavery, colonialism, and imperialism. It engages specifically with the ideas of C.L.R. James, Frantz Fanon, Claudia Jones, and Walter Rodney, all of Caribbean descent, whose intellectual and political work has had international impact.

This course explores the history of category religion and its deployment in the colonial projects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The rise of secularism in Europe was a process of defining certain discourses, practices and experiences as religious and isolating them as distinct from social and political aspect of life, a worldview and orientation. This way of knowing and ordain the world did not easily translate into the cultures colonized by European powers. Looking at case studies from Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia, this course will explore how religion became a vector of colonial power in the hands of missionaries and others and a means of resisting colonial hegemony for colonial subjects. Furthermore, it will investigate the ways in which contesting the meaning and definition of religion became a way of negotiating the limits of colonial authority. Key texts would include Tomoko Masuzawa, The Invention of World Religions, Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion, Jean and John Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution, Bruce Lincoln, Theorizing Myth, Richard King, Orientalism and Religion, Markus Dressler and Arvind-Pal S. Mandair, Secularism and Religion Making, Saba Mahmood, Religious Difference in a Secular Age, Penny Edwards Cambodge.

The Graduate Seminar in Jewish Studies introduces students to graduate level Jewish studies. The seminar meets for a total of 36 hours over two terms. Students explore the complexity of the question, 'What is Jewish studies?' focusing on the historical development and contemporary dimensions of the field through an interdisciplinary, integrating perspective. Students will have the opportunity to meet faculty members engaged in different areas of Jewish studies research and to work on their own research paper.

Examines the literary, musical, and visual cultures of modernism to create better understanding of the forms, meanings, and significance of interdisciplinary art practices.

Provides PhD students with advanced tools for interdisciplinary Humanities scholarship. As the only mandatory course in their degree, it ensures that students are well versed in conducting, presenting and publishing research, with an emphasis on qualitative methods. Students practice, and reflect on, the framing of research topics and fields as well as the design and conducting of courses.