Instructor: Steve Biel and Lauren Kaminsky
Meeting time: Thursday, 3:00 - 5:00
On the centenary of the First World War, this seminar will explore a wide range of representations of the conflict that began in the Balkans but swept through Europe to the Middle East and Russia, to the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, to the Mediterranean, Baltic, and Black Seas, and drew in soldiers and civilians from Africa, Asia, and the Americas. By looking closely ... Read more about HL90BX: WWI in Fiction, Film, Poetry, and Memoir
This course considers the way England was transformed by the demise of its empire after the Second World War. From the birth of the welfare state to the rise of Thatcherism, from post-colonial migration to multi-culturalism, from Cool Britannia to Brexit, we will 
In this course our exploration surrounds four contemporary novels by African American and Asian American authors with the theory and history of the new political, economic and social context these authors were confronting while writing political literature. We 
The Frankfurt School was a group of intellectuals who first started writing in Germany in the tumultuous period between the two World Wars. They sought to understand why modernity had led not to progress, as earlier social theorists such as Marx had