2021-2022 Courses

The 2021-2022 course catalogue, along with full course descriptions, is available at my.harvard.edu. To search for Comparative Literature courses, use the following path: FAS / Arts and Humanities / Comparative Literature. In the left tab, select the term "Spring 2022" to limit your results to all active courses of that specific semester. Sorting by course catalogue number will also give you a chronologial order of the courses.

SPRING 2022:
Below, please find our Spring 2022 departmental and cross-listed offerings as well as their course sites.

COURSE LIST BY COURSE NUMBER:

Course name	Instructor	Date/Time	Classroom
COMPLIT 97: Sophomore Tutorial	Thomas Wisniewski	Thu 3-5:45pm	Dana-Palmer 102
COMPLIT 108: Translating World Literature	Luke Leafgren	Tues/Thu 10:30-11:45am	Sever 205
COMPLIT 114/HDS 3802: Mysticism and Literature	Luis Girón-Negrón	Wed 9-11:45am	Dana-Palmer 102
COMPLIT 123: Isolation and Islands	Marc Shell	Mon 3-5:45pm	Remote
COMPLIT 140: Travel Writing as World Literature: From Marco Polo to Italo Calvino (And Beyond)	Thomas Wisniewski	Tues 3-5:45pm	Dana-Palmer 102
COMPLIT 171: Counter-Imperialism and Asian-African Literatures	Annette Lienau	Fri 3-5:45pm	Dana-Palmer 102
COMPLIT 180/GERMAN 180: Bargaining with the Devil	John Hamilton	Wed 12:45-2:45pm	Dana-Palmer 102
COMPLIT 226: Peripheral Modernisms	David Damrosch	Tues 9:45-11:45am	Dana-Palmer 102
COMPLIT 242/GERMAN 242: German Philhellenism: From Winckelmann to Heidegger	John Hamilton	Fri 12:45-2:45pm	Dana-Palmer 102
COMPLIT 278: Hyperreality	Panagiotis Roilos	Thu 12:45-2:45pm	Barker 218
COMPLIT 296: Harvard’s Things: Material Culture, Collecting, and Higher Education	Diana Sorensen	Wed 3-5pm	Dana-Palmer 102
COMPLIT 343 AB, BB, CB: Professing Literature	Verena Conley	Tues 6-8pm	Dana-Palmer 102
CROSS LISTED COURSES
Course Name	Instructor	Date/Time	Classrooms: please check the catalogue
ARABIC 150R: Themes in Arabic Literature	Shady Nasser	Mon/Wed 1:30-2:45pm
ARABIC 246R: Sicily, Spain (al-Andalus), and Maghreb in the Arab Mediterranean: Seminar	William Granara	Wed 12:45-2:45pm
CHNSLIT 245R: Topics in Sinophone Studies - Modern Chinese Fiction on the Periphery	David Wang	Mon 3-5pm
CHNSLIT 267R: Topics in Tang Literature: Seminar	Xiaofei Tian	Thu 12:45-3:45pm
CLS-STDY 123: Classics, Race, and Power	David Elmer	Tues/Thu 12-1:15pm
CLS-STDY 137/GREEK 137: Euripides as Anthropologist	Gregory Nagy	CLS-Study 137: Mon 12-1:15pm, Wed 1:30-2:45pm Greek 137: M, W 12-1:15
ENGLISH 90LT: Theory Matters: Problems in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory	Homi Bhabha	Tues 12-2pm
ENGLISH 290MH: Migration and the Humanities	Homi Bhabha, Mariano Siskind	Wed 3-5pm
FRSEMR 64O: Migratory Identities	David Damrosch	Wed 9:45-11:45am
GENED 1030: The Philosopher and the Tyrant	David Damrosch	Mon/Wed 3-4:15pm
HIS 4426: The Spectacle Factory	Jeffrey Schnapp	Tues 3-5:45pm
HUMAN 10B: A Humanities Colloquium: From Ralph Ellison to Homer	Jay Harris, Jill Lepore, Deidre Lynch, Leah Whittington, Jesse McCarthy, Wai-yee Li	Tues 10:30-11:45am
NEC 107: History of the Book: Studying the Material Text Through Harvard's Treasures	David Stern	Wed 3-5:45pm
SPANSH 157: Thinking Beyond the Human: Persons, Things and the Environment in Latin American Culture	Diana Sorensen	Tues 12:45-2:45pm

FALL 2021:
Below, please find our Fall 2021 departmental and cross-listed offerings as well as their course sites.

COURSE LIST BY COURSE NUMBER:

Course name	Instructor	Date/Time	Classroom
COMPLIT 120: Argentine Tango: Poetry, Music, and the Dance	Thomas Wisniewski	Tues 3-5:45pm + section Tue 6-8pm	Dana-Palmer Seminar Room + Section room Farkas 203
COMPLIT 121: From the 1001 Nights to the Arabian Nights: Adaptations, Transformations, and Translations	Sandra Naddaff	Wed 12-2:45pm	Dana-Palmer Seminar Room
COMPLIT 156: Songmaking and the Idea of Lyric	Gregory Nagy	Mon 12:45-2:45pm	Boylston 203
COMPLIT 170/FRENCH 177: Poetic Revolutions in French and Francophone Poetry of the 19th and 20th century	Verena Conley	Wed 9-11am	Dana-Palmer Seminar Room
COMPLIT 175/GERMAN 175/MUSIC 175R: Mahler and the Finis Austriae	John Hamilton, Federico Cortese	Mon 3-5pm	Music PH6
COMPLIT 212/GERMAN 287: Literature on Trial: Kafka in Paris	John Hamilton	Wed 12:45-2:45pm	Barker 403
COMPLIT 252/HDW 3726: The Literatures of Medieval Iberia: Approaches and Debates in their Comparative Study	Luis Girón-Negrón	Mon 9-11:45am	Dana-Palmer Seminar Room
COMPLIT 260: Literary Translation: Advanced Workshop	Thomas Wisniewski	Thu 6-8:45pm	Dana-Palmer Seminar Room
COMPLIT 274: Politics of Aesthetics: New Materialisms and Environmental Humanities	Verena Conley	Thu 12:45-2:45pm	Boylston 403
COMPLIT 298: Allegory	Panagiotis Roilos	Mon 6-8pm	Dana-Palmer Seminar Room
COMPLIT 299ar: Proseminar: Comparative Literature in Theory and Practice	Marc Shell	Thu 3-5pm	Course taught on zoom
COMPLIT 343 AA, BA, CA: Professing Literature	Verena Conley	Tues 6-8 pm	Dana-Palmer Seminar Room

CROSS LISTED COURSES
Course Name	Instructor	Date/Time	Classrooms: please check the catalogue
CHNSLIT 212: Modern Chinese Literary Discourse: A Comparative Survey	David Wang	Mon 3-5:45pm
CHNSLIT 267R: Topics in Tang Literature: Seminar	Xiaofei Tian	Thu 12:45-2:45pm
ENGLISH 90WL: The Future of World Literature	Martin Puchner	Tues 12:45-2:45pm
FRSEMR 62J: Harvard’s Greatest Hits: The Most Important, Rarest, and Most Valuable Books in Houghton Library	David Stern	Thu 3-5:45pm
FRSEMR 62O: Fascism Past/Present/(Future)	Jeffrey Schnapp	Thu 9-11am

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2021-2022 Courses

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