Summer Research

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Marrati, Paola
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 20/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer Research

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Siraganian, Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 18/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer Research

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lisi, Leonardo
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 19/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer Research

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Hashimoto, Satoru
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 19/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer Research

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Ong, Yi-Ping
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 18/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer Research

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bennett, Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 17/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

This seminar combines practice and theory-oriented approaches to film studies. In addition to exposing and immersing students into the film practice of various filmmakers and their approaches, including professor Wegenstein’s, this seminar pays close attention to feminist film theory, queer film theory, indigenous ethnographic film methods, and decolonial film strategies, analyzing their practical implementations in documentary, fiction films, and animation films. The seminar will also offer students the opportunity to sit in and learn the editing process, as Fall 2024 coincides with Bernadette Wegenstein’s latest documentary film post-production phase, The Archives. No prior practical experience in filmmaking needed to attend this class.

• Days/Times: F 2:00PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Wegenstein, Bernadette
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Presentations by faculty, students, and invited speakers.

• Days/Times: W 10:30AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Bennett, Jane; Taylor, Chris Ross
• Room: Gilman 208
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation research and discussion of progress. Limited to students writing dissertations.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Marrati, Paola
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation research and discussion of progress. Limited to students writing dissertations.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bennett, Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation research and discussion of progress. Limited to students writing dissertations.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lisi, Leonardo
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation research and discussion of progress. Limited to students writing dissertations.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Ong, Yi-Ping
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation research and discussion of progress. Limited to students writing dissertations.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Siraganian, Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation research and discussion of progress. Limited to students writing dissertations.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Hashimoto, Satoru
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation research and discussion of progress. Limited to students writing dissertations.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Egginton, William
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Teaching Assistant graduate student

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Marrati, Paola
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bennett, Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Teaching assistants are required to register for this course. See handbook for details.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bennett, Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/6
• PosTag(s): n/a

An interdisciplinary seminar on Latin America’s role in wider cultural, economic, and political processes, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. In Fall 2024 we will take up the themes of aesthetics, epistemic pluralism, and the question of reality.

• Days/Times: W 2:00PM - 4:30PM
• Instructor: Angelini, Alessandro; Nogueira, Marcelo
• Room: Mergenthaler 439
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Taught by the Max Kade Visiting Professor. According to Aristotle’s Poetics, the poet’s task is to speak not of things that have happened (ta genomena) but of the sort of things that might happen and are possible (dunata). But how does the literary work come into being—in other words, how is it possible as a locus of possibilities? Since the late 18th century, authors have increasingly focused on their manuscripts as the space of poetic potential and have engaged in different ways with the gestural, technical, and pictorial dynamics of writing. In this course, we will look at these material practices and how they shape notions of poetic possibility. Authors to include Hölderlin, Nietzsche among others. The class will also consider the theorry of poetic writing in the Paris school of critique génétique.

• Days/Times: Th 4:00PM - 6:00PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): MLL-GERM

The Holocaust appears in scholarship as a figure or catalyst of analysis as often as it does as a historical event. It has prompted debates about historiography, about aesthetics, and about modernity across the humanistic disciplines, yet many of these debates and analyses have relied on a small number of sources, primarily literary texts. This course will assess some of the major areas of critical and scholarly inquiry regarding the Holocaust, but in relation to a different corpus of works, written by victims and survivors, that has been mostly overlooked. These works, many in Yiddish, many written during or in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, afford an opportunity to reassess the degree and the kind of challenge the Holocaust posed to the various aesthetic, memorial, and social formations of modernity. Taught in English; all readings available in English translation.

• Days/Times: W 1:00PM - 3:00PM
• Instructor: Spinner, Samuel Jacob
• Room: Gilman 443
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

At a time when racial, economic, social, cultural, religious, and political divides seem more irreconcilable then ever, the very fabric of democracy shows its vulnerability in the United States as well as at the global scale. This seminar aims to study how different thinkers, in different historical periods, addressed the challenges, betrayals, and fragile hope of the American Dream and how their voices resonate with contemporary authors and problems inside and outside the United States.

• Days/Times: F 10:00AM - 12:30PM
• Instructor: Marrati, Paola
• Room: Gilman 208
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course will consist of a close reading of the eleven texts collected in Heidegger’s 1954 volume “Vorträge und Aufsätze,” including such seminal pieces as “The Question Concerning Technology,” “What is Called Thinking?,” “Building, Dwelling, Thinking,” “… poetically man dwells…,” and “Aletheia.” Discussions in English; reading knowledge of German required.

• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Lisi, Leonardo
• Room: Gilman 10
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Celebrated and reviled alike, Kierkegaard’s 1843 Either/Or has been viewed as both the culmination of the Enlightenment project and the birth of existentialism, a playful work of romantic literature and a piece of late-Hegelian philosophy, a vindication of the secular everyday and the articulation of a modern faith in a transcendent God. In this course we read the work closely and in its entirety and pay particular attention to the relation between its philosophical arguments and literary forms of presentation.

• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Lisi, Leonardo
• Room: Gilman 208
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Presentations by faculty, students, and invited speakers.

• Days/Times: W 10:30AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Bennett, Jane; Taylor, Chris Ross
• Room: Gilman 208
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate student having directed work with a specific faculty.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Marrati, Paola
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate student having directed work with a specific faculty.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Ong, Yi-Ping
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate student having directed work with a specific faculty.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Hashimoto, Satoru
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation research and discussion of progress. Limited to students writing dissertations.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Marrati, Paola
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation research and discussion of progress. Limited to students writing dissertations.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bennett, Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation research and discussion of progress. Limited to students writing dissertations.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lisi, Leonardo
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation research and discussion of progress. Limited to students writing dissertations.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Ong, Yi-Ping
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation research and discussion of progress. Limited to students writing dissertations.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Siraganian, Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation research and discussion of progress. Limited to students writing dissertations.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Hashimoto, Satoru
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bennett, Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course introduces basic computational techniques in the context of empirical humanistic scholarship. Topics covered include the command-line, basic Python programming, and experimental design. While illustrative examples are drawn from humanistic domains, the primary focus is on methods: those with specific domains in mind should be aware that such applied research is welcome and exciting, but will largely be their responsibility beyond the confines of the course. Students will come away with tangible understanding of how to cast simple humanistic questions as empirical hypotheses, ground and test these hypotheses computationally, and justify the choices made while doing so. No previous programming experience is required.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Lippincott, Tom; Sirin Ryan, Hale
• Room: Krieger 304
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course introduces substantial machine learning methods of particular relevance to humanistic scholarship. Areas covered include standard models for classification, regression, and topic modeling, before turning to the array of open-source pretrained deep neural models, and the common mechanisms for employing them. Students are expected to have a level of programming experience equivalent to that gained from AS.360.304, Gateway Computing, AS.250.205, or Harvard’s CS50 for Python. Students will come away with an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of different machine learning models, the ability to discuss them in relation to human intelligence and to make informed decisions of when and how to employ them, and an array of related technical knowledge.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Backer, Samuel Ehrlich; Messner, Craig A
• Room: Maryland 114
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/10
• PosTag(s): n/a