2022-2023 Courses

The 2022-2023 course catalogue, along with full course descriptions, will be available at my.harvard.edu later in June. To search for Comparative Literature courses, use the following path: FAS / Arts and Humanities / Comparative Literature. In the left tab, select the term "Fall 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.

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

COURSE LIST BY COURSE NUMBER:

Course name	Instructor	Date/Time
COMPLIT 102Y: Literary Biography & Documentary Film	Thomas Wisniewski	Tues. 3-5:45pm
COMPLIT 107/YIDDISH 107: The Politics of Yiddish	Saul Zaritt
COMPLIT 109: On Translation	Sandra Naddaff	Wed. 12-2:45pm
COMPLIT 119X/NEC 107: The History of the Book: Using Harvard's Greatest Treasures to Study the Material Text	David Stern	Th. 3-5:45pm
COMPLIT 121X: Culture of Convenience	John Hamilton	Wed. 3-5pm
COMPLIT 153/SLAVIC 154: Nabokov	Justin Weir	Th. 6:45-8:45pm
COMPLIT 157: From Type to Self in the Middle Ages	Luis Girón-Negrón	Wed. 9-11:45am
COMPLIT 213X: Sounds, Space, and Politics	Junting Huang	Th. 12:45-2:45pm
COMPLIT 224/JEWISHST 224: Jew Theory	Saul Zaritt	Th. 9-11:45pm
COMPLIT 242X: Greek Antiquity and German Thought: From Nietzsche to Heidegger	Panagiotis Roilos	Wed. 12:45-2:45pm
COMPLIT 299ar: Proseminar: Comparative Literature in Theory and Practice	David Damrosch	Tues. 9:45-11:45am
COMPLIT 343 AA, BA, CA: Professing Literature	Verena Conley	Tues. 6-8 pm




CROSS LISTED COURSES
Course Name	Instructor	Date/Time/Room: please check the catalogue
ENGLISH 90RV: Empire and Revolution, Sex and Gender, Race, Slavery, and Abolition	James Engell
FRSEMR 33C: Borges, García Márquez, Bolaño and Other Classics of Modern Latin American Fiction and Poetry	Mariano Siskind
FRSEMR 64O: Migratory Identities	David Damrosch
FRSEMR 64U: Stories of Gender and Justice	Karen Thornber
FRSEMR 65E: Wit, Irony, Comedy	Thomas Wisniewski
GENED 1074: The Ancient Greek Hero	Greg Nagy
GENED 1144: Mental Health and Mental Illness Through Literature and the Arts	Karen Thornber
Ital 245: A Fascist Century	Jeffrey Schnapp
ROM-STD 201/GERMAN 291: Questions of Theory	Nicole Suetterlin, Doris Sommer
SLAVIC 171: The Holocaust in Polish Memory and Culture	Aleksandra Kremer
SLAVIC 260: Russia and Race	Justin Weir
SPANISH 194: The Borges Machine	Mariano Siskind

SPRING 2023:
Below, please find our Spring 2023 departmental and cross-listed offerings.

COURSE LIST BY COURSE NUMBER:

Course name	Instructor
COMPLIT 97: Sophomore Tutorial	Thomas Wisniewski
COMPLIT 100X: Introduction to German Literature and Thought	John Hamilton
COMPLIT 106/ YIDDISH 115: The Yiddish Short Story: Folk Tales, Monologues, and Post-Apocalyptic Parables	Saul Zaritt
COMPLIT 108: Translating World Literature	Luke Leafgren
COMPLIT 115X: The Short Story as World Literature	Thomas Wisniewski
COMPLIT 140X: Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature: Political Transformation and Social Change across a Decolonizing Twentieth Century	Annette Lienau
COMPLIT 162: Homer And Beyond: Theory And Comparative Methods In Studying Oral Traditions	Greg Nagy
COMPLIT 166/YIDDISH 166: Jews, Humor, and the Politics of Laughter	Saul Zaritt
COMPLIT 170A/ CLS-STDY 170: Black Classicisms: Adaptations of Ancient Greek & Roman Classics in Africa, the Caribbean, & the US	Emily Greenwood
COMPLIT 187X: Global New Media and Art	Junting Huang
COMPLIT 193/ Divinity School 3725: What’s Love Got to Do with It? Love Poetry of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance	Luis Girón-Negrón
COMPLIT 223X: Post-War Confessions: Albert Camus and Günter Grass	John Hamilton
COMPLIT 238: After Orientalism: Writing across Arabic-Islamic Contact Zones	Annette Lienau
COMPLIT 234A/ CLS-STDY 234: Black Classicisms: A Research Seminar and Pedagogy Workshop	Emily Greenwood
COMPLIT 277: Literature, Diaspora, Migration, and Trauma	Karen Thornber
COMPLIT 279: Knowledge Design: What should or could (scholarly) knowledge look like in the 21st century?	Jeffrey Schnapp
COMPLIT 283: Language War: Seminar	Marc Shell
COMPLIT 296: The Environmental Humanities: Critical Zones and Trajectories	Verena Conley, Diana Sorensen
COMPLIT 343 AB, BB, CB: Professing Literature	Verena Conley	Tues 6-8pm	Dana-Palmer 102
ALBANIAN AA: Elementary Modern Albanian I	TBA	TBD
ALBANIAN BA: Intermediate Modern Albanian I	TBA	TBD
ALBANIAN 101 A: Advanced Modern Albanian I	TBA	TBD
CROSS LISTED COURSES
Course Name	Instructor
ENGLISH 290MH/ROM-STD 290: Migration and the Humanities	Homi Bhabha, Mariano Siskind
FRSEM 63N: Narrative Negotiations: How do Readers and Writers Decide	Homi Bhabha
GENED 1030: The Philosopher and the Tyrant	David Damrosch
GENED 1090: What is a Book? From the Clay Tablet to the Kindle	David Stern
SPANSH 157: Thinking Beyond the Human: Persons, Things and the Environment in Latin American Culture	Diana Sorensen

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2022-2023 Courses

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