This course essentially happens in the theatres of Paris, exploring the city’s fabulous resources, exchanging with practitioners and scholars from other institutions. We see ways of integrating music, dance and “physical theatre,” innovative explorations of classics from European and non-European traditions, avant-garde masters and the brightest young experimental troupes. We have theatre that directly questions political dilemmas, collective theatre and director-driven theatre, machine theatre and theatre based around great individual actors. Papers done in French or English.
Course fee atttached.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
09:00
10:20
G-102
Friday
09:00
10:20
G-102

How do words change when we use them on and offline? What happens to writing and reading when we move between physical books and digital environments? What are the relationships between Literature and the Internet?  How do ‘traditional’ or ‘canonical’ literary works dialogue with social media, computer games and Google-generated poetry? What does it ‘mean’ to ‘read’ ‘books’ in the third decade of the twenty-first century? 


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
10:35
11:55
G-009
Thursday
10:35
11:55
G-009

This course offers close engagement with recently translated fiction and poetry from around the globe. In addition to reading great contemporary writing, students are introduced to today’s new media landscape, which has taken on an increasingly important role in the promotion and evaluation of global literature. Units on the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
12:10
13:30
G-102
Thursday
12:10
13:30
G-102

Explores the work of Anglo-American modernist writers in Paris, concentrating on the works of Ernest Hemingway, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Jean Rhys, and other writers. Relates their formal experimentation to the visual arts and to the psychic dynamics of exile: the experience of liberation from the constraints of one culture and an alienated relation to the new environment.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
16:55
18:15
G-009
Thursday
16:55
18:15
G-009

This course intends to help students better understand the Bible's influence on literature and cultural history through a primary and secondary approach: reading the Bible (preferably The King James Version); reading the history of the biblical period (introductions and annotations of the New Oxford Annotated Bible). Readings shall cover the Hebrew Bible, the Apocrypha, and the New Testament. No prerequisites.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
10:35
11:55
G-102
Thursday
10:35
11:55
G-102

Courses on different topics in the discipline, enriching the present course offerings. These classes are taught by permanent or visiting faculty.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
13:45
15:05
SD-1
Friday
13:45
15:05
SD-1

Courses on different topics in the discipline, enriching the present course offerings. These classes are taught by permanent or visiting faculty.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
12:10
13:30
G-207
Thursday
12:10
13:30
G-207

Whether a story is an imaginative transformation of life experience or an invention, the writing must be well crafted and convincing, driven not only by plot and theme but also through characterization, conflict, point of view, and sensitivity to language. Students produce and critique short stories and novel chapters while studying fiction techniques and style through examples.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Wednesday
10:35
13:30
G-207

Have you yearned to start a novel, a collection of related short stories or narrative essays, a memoir, or a series of poems? This cross-genre, seminar-style course is designed for students who want to pursue larger, more advanced creative writing projects. Students will submit project proposals for discussion and approval, and then present significant installments of writing at regular intervals during the semester. Revisions will be required along with student-professor individual conferences. Readings will be used as guiding examples, and required reaction papers will be tailored to individual projects. May be taken twice for credit. This course must have faculty approval in order to be registered.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Friday
15:20
18:15
G-L22

Under the supervision of the major advisor, students prepare a portfolio of at least 5 essays from their major courses, along with relevant work in other courses, and identify, evaluate and justify the personal focus of their work in an introductory essay. Examined orally by a panel of faculty.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
01:00
01:30
TBD-S