2019-2020 Courses

The 2019-2020 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 advance search, select the term "2020 Spring" to limit your search to that semester.

Below, please find our Spring 2020 departmental and cross-listed offerings: Classrooms are available on my.harvard.edu.

For your convenience, here is also a downloadable Spring 2020 Course Schedule (organized by course number and by weekly schedule).

COURSE LIST and Title	INSTRUCTOR	Date/Time
COMPLIT 97: Sophomore Tutorial	Annette Lienau	Section 1: Fri 9:45-11:45am Section 2: Fri 3-5pm
COMPLIT 106/YIDDISH 115: The Yiddish Short Story: Folk Tales, Monologues, and Post-Apocalyptic Parables	Saul Zaritt	Wed 9-11am
COMPLIT 108: Translating World Literature	Luke Leafgren	TTh 10:30-11:45am
COMPLIT 122/SLAVIC184: Soviet Theory and the West	Justin Weir	Thurs 3-5pm
COMPLIT 134: World Cinema	Katharina Piechocki	Mon 3-5pm + screenings Tue 6-8:45pm
COMPLIT 143/HEBREW 131/HDS 1456: The Jewish Library: Four Jewish Classics	David Stern	Thurs 3-5:45pm
COMPLIT 151/SLAVIC 112: Science Fiction	Jacob Emery	MW 12-1:15pm
COMPLIT 156: Performance and Lyric	Gregory Nagy	Mon 12:45-2:45pm
COMPLIT 166/YIDDISH 166/HDS 2025: Jews, Humor, and the Politics of Laughter	Saul Zaritt	TTh 1:30-2:45pm
COMPLIT 167: Hebrew 167/HDS 1453: Prayer and Prayerbook (Tefillah and Siddur)	David Stern	Tues 12:45-3:30pm
CANCELLED: COMPLIT 181/GERMAN 185: Fallen Grace: Heinrich von Kleist	John T. Hamilton
COMPLIT 204/ENGLISH 292PH: Public Humanities Workshop	Martin Puchner	Wed 3-5pm
COMPLIT 212/GERMAN 287: Literature on Trial: Kafka in Paris	John T. Hamilton	Fri 12:45-2:45pm
COMPLIT 260: Literary Translation: A Workshop	Thomas Wisniewski	Tues 3-5:45pm
COMPLIT 277: Literature, Diaspora, and Global Trauma	Karen Thornber	Wed 12:45-2:45pm
COMPLIT 288: The Ancients and the Moderns: Modern Critical Theory and the Classics	Panagiotis Roilos	Wed 6-8pm
COMPLIT 296: Mobility and Materiality: Case Studies in Networks of Collecting and Displacement	Diana Sorensen	Wed 3-5pm
COMPLIT 343 AB, BB, CB Professing Literature	Verena Conley	Tues 6-8pm

CROSS LISTED COURSES:
AFRAMER 196Y: African Literature and the Poetics of Memory	Bojana Coulibaly	Thurs 12-2:45pm
ARABIC 150R: Travel and Autobiography in Arabic Literature	Shady Nasser	Mon 3-5:45pm
CHNSLIT 245R: Topics in Sinophone Studies - Modern Chinese Fiction on the Periphery	David Wang	Mon 12:45-2:45pm
FRENCH 174: Mediterranean Crossings: Exiles, Migrants and Refugees	Verena Conley	Th 3-5pm
FRENCH 262: Transnationalism and the Francophone World: Race, Gender, Sexuality	Françoise Lionnet	Wed 12:45-2:45pm
GENED 1021: The Stories We Tell	David Damrosch, Martin Puchner	MW 1:30-2:45pm
HUMAN 10B: A Humanities Colloquium: From Joyce to Homer	Louis Menand, Leah Whittington, David Armitage, Samantha Matherne, David Elmer, Katharina Piechocki	Tues 10:30-11:45am
RELIGION 61: Literature of Modern Religious Experience and Reflection: Texts in the Christian Tradition	James Engell	Wed 3-5:45pm
ROM-STD 140: Latin American Cities and Visual Cultures	Bruno Carvalho	Wed 3-5:30pm
SAS 185: Writing Modern South Asia	Sravanthi Kollu	TTh 1:30-2:45pm
SLAVIC 171: The Holocaust in Polish Memory and Culture	Aleksandra Kremer	Th 9:45-11:45am

Fall 2019:

Below, please find our Fall 2019 departmental and cross-listed offerings with links to the Canvas course sites.

For your convenience, here is also a downloadable Fall 2019 Course Schedule (organized by course number and by weekly schedule).

COURSE LIST and Title	INSTRUCTOR	Date/Time	Room (check on my.harvard for any updates)
COMPLIT 102: Comparing, Connecting, Compos(t)ing: Comparative Literature from Lucretius to Elfriede Jelinek	Katharina Piechocki	Thurs 9:45-11:45AM	Dana Palmer 102
COMPLIT 109: On Translation	Sandra Naddaff	Wed 12:45-2:45PM	Dana Palmer 102
COMPLIT 128: Modernism in Theory and Practice	David Damrosch	Mon 3:45-5:45PM	Dana Palmer 102
COMPLIT 147: Global Crime Fiction: Tackling Crime, Corruption, and Social Disintegration	Karen Thornber	Mon 6:00-8:00PM	CGIS S050
COMPLIT: 153 / SLAVIC 154: Nabokov	Justin Weir	Wed 6:00-8:00PM	Barker 373
COMPLIT 157: From Type to Self in the Middle Ages	Luis Giron Negron	MW 9:00-10:15AM	Dana Palmer 102
COMPLIT 172: Comparative Literatures of the Indian Ocean	Annette Lienau	Mon 12:00-1:30PM	Dana Palmer 103
COMPLIT 180 / GER 180:Bargaining with the Devil: the Faust Legend	John Hamilton	Wed 3:00-5:00PM	Davison - Music Dpt.
COMPLIT 228 / ENG 256:Comparative Romanticism: Practice and Theory	James Engell	Wed 12:00-2:45PM	Barker 269
COMPLIT 248: Literature, Cartography, and the Spatial Turn from Homer to Claire Coleman	Katharina Piechocki	Thurs 12:00-2:45PM	Dana Palmer 102
COMPLIT 274: Politics of Aesthetics: New Materialisms and Environmental Humanities	Verena Conley	Thurs 3:00-5:45PM	Dana Palmer 102
COMPLIT 299AR:Comparative Literature in Theory and Practice	David Damrosch	Tues 9:45-11:45AM	Dana Palmer 102
COMPLIT 343 AA, BA, CA Professing Literature	Verena Conley	Tues 6-8PM	Dana Palmer 102

CROSS LISTED COURSES
ENGLISH 146ET: An Enlightenment for Today?	James Engell	TTh 1:30-2:45PM	Emerson 108
FRSEMR 33C: Borges, García Márquez, Bolaño and Other Classics of Modern Latin American Fiction and Poetry	Mariano Siskind	Mon 3:00-5:00PM	Sever 101
FRSEMR 61C: Spanish-American Culture and Society in the 1960s—The Last Utopia?	Diana Sorensen	Wed 3:00-5:00PM	Sever 212
GENED 1155: Literatures of Decolonization	Annette Lienau	Mon 3:00-5:45PM	Sever 310
GENED 1078: Disease, Illness, and Health through Literature	Karen Thornber	MW 3:00-4:15PM	CGIS South S020
GENED 1020: Security	John Hamilton	TTh 1:30-2:45PM	Menschel Hall Harvard Art Museums
GERMAN 108: Introduction to the History of the Modern Self: Meister Eckhart and His Successors	Ben Morgan	Fri 9:45-11:45AM	Barker 211
GERMAN 222: Schelling, Goethe, and Dorothea and Friedrich Schlegel c. 1809: A Genealogy of the Present	Ben Morgan	Th. 12-2:45PM	Sever 109
JEWISHST 160: Berlin: German Capital, Jewish Center	Rachel Seelig	Tue 9-11PM	Semitic Museum 201
ROM-STD 201: Questions of Theory	Doris Sommer, Nicole Suetterlin	Fri 9:45-11:45am	Barker Center 133

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