The 2018-2019 Course Catalogue is available to the Harvard Community on my.harvard.edu.
To search for all the Comp Lit courses, select the following path: FAS / Arts and Humanities / Comparative Literature. In advance search, you can select the term "2019 Spring" to limit the course lists to that specific semester.
For your convenience, here is a downloadable Spring 2019 Course Schedule (organized by course number and by weekly schedule).
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SPRING 2019 |
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COURSE LIST and Title: |
INSTRUCTOR |
Date/Time |
Room |
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COMPLIT 97: Sophomore Tutorial |
Fri/12:45-2:45PM |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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COMPLIT 137/Hebrew 137: Child Sacrifice, Pros and Cons: The Binding of Isaac in Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Modern Lit |
TTh/10:30-11:45AM |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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COMPLIT 162: Homer and Beyond: Theory and Comparative Methods in Studying Oral Traditions |
Mon/12:45-2:45PM |
Boylston 203 |
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COMPLIT 174/GERMAN 174: Realism, Fantasy, and the Grotesque: Hoffmann and Balzac |
Thurs/12:45-2:45PM |
Barker 359 |
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COMPLIT 191: W.G. Sebald's Intertextuality |
Wed/12:45-2:45PM |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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COMPLIT 193: What's Love Got to Do with It; Love Poetry of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance |
MWF/9-10:15AM |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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COMPLIT 214: The Literature of the Islands |
Thurs/3-5PM |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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COMPLIT 217/ROM-STD 217/HIS 4389: 14 Things (A Secret History of Italian Design) |
Thurs 10-1PM |
GUND 522 |
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Mon/3-5PM |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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COMPLIT 231: Living the Lives of Others: Reading Beyond the Hermeneutics of Suspicion (Graduate Seminar in General Education) |
Wed/3-5PM |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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COMPLIT 264: Thinking and Writing Transculturally |
Tues/9:45-11:45AM |
CGIS Knafel 107 |
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COMPLIT 272: Ritual Poetics |
Thu/6-8PM |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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COMPLIT 343 AB, BB, CB: Professing Literature |
Tue 6-8pm |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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Course list by weekly schedule: |
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COURSE LIST and Title: |
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COMPLIT 193: What's Love Got to Do with It; Love Poetry of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance |
MWF/9-10:15AM |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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COMPLIT 162: Homer and Beyond: Theory and Comparative Methods in Studying Oral Traditions |
Mon/12:45-2:45PM |
Boylston 203 |
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Mon/3-5PM |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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COMPLIT 264: Thinking and Writing Transculturally |
Tues/9:45-11:45AM |
CGIS Knafel 107 |
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COMPLIT 137/Hebrew 137: Child Sacrifice, Pros and Cons: The Binding of Isaac in Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Modern Lit |
TTh/10:30-11:45AM |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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COMPLIT 343 AA, BA, CA: Professing Literature |
Tue 6-8pm |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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COMPLIT 191: W.G. Sebald's Intertextuality |
Wed/12:45-2:45PM |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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COMPLIT 231: Living the Lives of Others: Reading Beyond the Hermeneutics of Suspicion (Graduate Seminar in General Education) |
Wed/3-5PM |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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COMPLIT 217/ROM-STD 217/HIS 4389: 14 Things (A Secret History of Italian Design) |
Thurs 10-1PM |
GUND 522 |
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COMPLIT 174/GERMAN 174: Realism, Fantasy, and the Grotesque: Hoffmann and Balzac |
Thurs/12:45-2:45PM |
Barker 359 |
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COMPLIT 214: The Literature of the Islands |
Thurs/3-5PM |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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COMPLIT 272: Ritual Poetics |
Thu/6-8PM |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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COMPLIT 97: Sophomore tutorial |
Fri/12:45-2:45PM |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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Cross Listed Courses: Alphabetically by course number |
INSTRUCTOR |
Date/Time |
Room |
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AESTHINT 47: Forbidden Romance in Modern China |
Mon/Wed/10.30-11.45AM |
Yenching 212 | |
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CHNSLIT 267R: Topics in Tang Literature: Seminar |
Fri/12-2.45PM |
Yenching 213 | |
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CHNSLIT 272: The Legacy of May Fourth: A Critical Survey of Modern Chinese Literary Culture |
Mon/3-5.45PM |
Yenching 212 | |
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ENGLISH 190N: Writing Nature: Creativity, Poetry, Ethics, Science |
Mon/Wed/1.30-2.45PM |
Barker 024 | |
| FRENCH 181: France-North Africa, Encounters in Literature and Film: Cultures of Protest and Violence | Verena Conley | Thurs/3-5PM | Boylston 403 |
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FRENCH 234: Francophone Studies and Human Rights |
Wed/12-2.30PM |
Boylston 403 | |
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GERMAN 164: Shaping National Identity: Cultural Trauma in Germany and the U.S. |
Fri/9.45-11.45AM |
Barker 359 | |
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GERMAN 267: Dichten und Denken: Heidegger and the Poets |
Fri/12-2PM |
Barker 114 | |
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MODGRK 146/ CLS-STDY 151: The Greek Novel |
Thurs/12.45-2.45PM |
Boylston 237 | |
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ROM-STD 250: Mahindra Humanities Center Workshop |
TBD |
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SPANSH 194: The Borges Machine |
Thurs/3-5.00PM |
Boylston 327 |
FALL 2018
For your convenience, here is a downloadable Fall 2018 Schedule (organized by course number and by weekly schedule).
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COURSE NUMBER and TITLE |
INSTRUCTOR |
Date/Time |
Room |
| COMPLIT 107/YIDDISH 107: The Politics of Yiddish | Saul Noam Zaritt | Wed/12-2PM | Dana-Palmer 102 |
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COMPLIT 113: Existential Fictions: From Saint Augustine to Jean-Paul Sartre and Beyond |
Thurs/3-5PM |
Barker 024 | |
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COMPLIT 121: From the 1001 Nights to the Arabian Nights: Adaptation, Transformation, Translation |
Thurs/12-2:30PM |
Dana-Palmer 102 | |
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COMPLIT 133: Shakespeare and the Globe |
Wed/3-5PM |
Dana-Palmer 102 | |
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COMPLIT 179/JEWISHST 179: Ghostwriters and Ventriloquists: Postwar Jewish American Culture |
Fri/12-2PM |
Dana-Palmer 102 | |
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COMPLIT 201/RS 201/GERMAN 291: Questions of Theory |
Fri/9:45-11:45AM |
Barker 114 | |
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COMPLIT 211/HDS 3802: Mysticism and Literature |
Mon/3-5:45PM |
Dana-Palmer 102 | |
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COMPLIT 244: On Imagination: From Plato to Castoriadis |
Wed/12-2PM |
Barker 218 | |
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COMPLIT 255: Dysfunctional Family as National Allegory in the Middle Eastern Novel |
Thurs/3-5PM |
38 Kirkland 208 | |
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COMPLIT 299AR: Comparative Literature in Theory and Practice |
Tues/9:45-11:45AM |
Dana-Palmer 102 | |
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COMPLIT 343 AA, BA, CA: Professing Literature |
Tue 6-8pm |
Dana-Palmer 102 |
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CROSS LISTED COURSES: alphabetically by course level |
INSTRUCTOR |
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AESTHINT 15: Elements of Rhetoric |
Tu/Thu 12-1.15PM |
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AESTHINT 50: Literature and Medicine |
Wed/3-5.45PM |
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CULTBLF 22: The Ancient Greek Hero: Mythology and Facing Death |
Mon/Wed/12-1.15PM |
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CULTBLF 40: Popular Culture and Modern China |
Mon/Wed/10.30-11.45AM |
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ENGLISH 242: English Enlightenment: Foundations of the Modern |
Wed/12-2.45PM |
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FRENCH 176: World Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Francophonie and Creolization: Reading in Context |
Tue/12-2.45PM |
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FRSEMR 33C: Borges, Garcia Marquez, Bolano and Other Classics of Modern Latin American Fiction and Poetry |
Mon/3-5PM |
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FRSEMR 61O: Global Crime Fiction: Tackling Crime, Corruption, and Social Disintegration |
Tue/6-8PM |
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FRSEMR 62O: Who is a Fascist? Culture and Politics on the Radical Right |
Thurs/9-11AM |
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GERMAN 151: Kafka in Context |
Tue/Thu/12-1.15PM |
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HUMAN 11B: The Art of Listening |
Tue/12-1.15PM |
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HUMAN 12: Essential Works in World Literature |
Mon/3-5PM |
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SPANSH 232: About the End of the World: Crises of Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Culture and Theory |
Thurs/3-5.45PM |