Instructor: Angela Allan and Raphael Allison
Meeting time: TBD
This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary theories and methods of cultural studies. Conducting rigorous analysis of landmark texts from the canon of twentieth-century critical...
Instructor: Lauren Kaminsky
Meeting time: Wednesday, 9:45-11:45 am
Queer histories are all around us, but rarely do they announce themselves as such. This research seminar offers training in archival methods with a focus on historical subjects who deviate...
Instructor: Sean Gilsdorf
Meeting time: TBD
This seminar will explore female rulership in Europe from the late Roman empire to the age of Elizabeth I. Discussion of varied texts and images (most of them primary sources in translation) will reveal the role...
Instructor: Andi Remoquillo
Meeting time: TBD
This course examines Asian American cultural production and the political histories of various Asian American communities. We will place a wide range of primary texts, including fiction, poetry, film, television...
Instructor: Steve Biel
Meeting time: Wednesday, 12:45-2:45 pm
The specter that haunted Europe when the Communist Manifesto was published in 1848 continues to shape American political discourse to this day. “From the very get-go,” wrote a Mississippi...
Instructor: Cristina Garcia Navas
Meeting time: Wednesday, 12:45-2:45 pm
This course traces the presence of the supernatural in Latin American literature, art, and culture. How has contact between fantasy, magic, and mythology been central to defining and...
Instructor: Matthew Sohm
Meeting time: Wednesday, 12:45-2:45 pm
Contemporary Europe is a continent of contrasts: it’s home to some of the most peaceful, prosperous societies on earth, while continuing to be marred by war, economic stagnation, and division...
Instructor: Dennis Hogan
Meeting time: Tuesday, 3:00-5:00 pm
This course considers the tropics, a zone spanning more than one hundred countries and housing nearly forty percent of the human population. What are the histories and cultures of the tropics and...
Instructor: Emily Gowen
Meeting time: Monday, 12:45-2:45 pm
Education is often understood as a lever for social change, but ideas about what constitutes a good education have long been hotly contested. What is more, the seeds of today’s most urgent...
Instructor: Nicholas Bloom
Meeting time: Tuesday, 9:45-11:45 am
In his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois famously wrote that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” This course is a survey of the work of...
Instructor: Caitlin Schmid
Meeting time: Thursday, 3:00-5:00 pm
In this course, we’ll explore the intersection of music and social movements in the United States in the 20th and 21st centuries. How have composers, performers, and musical artists positioned...
Instructor: Simone Stirner
Meeting time: Monday, 3:00-5:00 pm
This course introduces students to the plurality of contemporary German-Jewish culture in historical perspective. How do contemporary writers and artists negotiate the long legacy of the Second...