Historical Writing in the Middle Ages
AS.100.728 (01)

The course will begin with readings of literary and critical theory, as a preparation for the study of modes of historical writing in the Middle Ages. We will then read a sampling of medieval historiographical texts, beginning with Eusebius.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Media Theory in the Age of Big Data
AS.211.748 (01)

This seminar will explore some key themes in contemporary media theory in an age when five tech giants have succeeded in infiltrating the daily lives of global citizens to an unprecedented degree in history. We will study the impact of this saturation on socioeconomic inequality as well as the implications of an almost total loss of privacy. Among the strategies of resistance to the capacity for surveillance these companies have developed we will focus in particular on current examples of feminist media art and voices from the global and cultural periphery as well as tendencies in these practices to emphasize a return to interpersonal connections and the embodied here and now. As case studies we nay include #metoo, slo-film movements from Southern Bahia in Brazil, and the financing and distribution of art films by mega media companies like Netflix.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 20/25
• PosTag(s): GRLL-ENGL

Patterns of Attention in the Visual Arts
AS.010.703 (01)

This seminar aims to excavate six distinct modalities of attention and attentiveness in the visual arts from Middle Ages to Modernity (cultic, narrational, speculative, ethical, sexual, and artistic). While emphasizing European developments, close consideration will be given to the role of visual attention in Hindu and Islamic visual cultures, providing the opportunity for cross-cultural comparison. Each case study will consider the historically shifting roles given to vision, cognition, imagination, affect, desire and power-knowledge in the culturally prevalent patterns of attention we study, and explore how specific kinds of pictorial schema or spatial environments served to structure and guide, or deflect and disrupt, the attention of their beholders. Finally, we will ask whether the historical study of attention can suggest analytical models or ethical lessons for the (re)mobilization of attentiveness in our own art-historical methods.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): HART-RENBAR

Independent Study
AS.300.800 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.300.800 (05)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Ind Stdy-Field Exams
AS.300.801 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/2
• PosTag(s): n/a

Ind Stdy-Field Exams
AS.300.801 (02)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/2
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Pro-Seminar
AS.300.647 (01)

This seminar provides an introductory survey in comparative methods and theory. The course fulfills the pro-seminar requirements for CTL but is open to all graduate students.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Challenge to Painting: Collage, Montage, Assemblage
AS.010.640 (01)

The invention of Cubist collage is generally regarded as a watershed in twentieth-century art. This seminar will examine key junctures in the rapid proliferation and redefinition of collage strategies primarily in Europe and the United States, including but not limited to Futurist “words in liberty”; Dada and Constructivist photomontage; the Surrealist exploration of desire; Situationist détournement; and selected varieties of postwar assemblage. Frequent meetings in Special Collections.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/5
• PosTag(s): HART-MODERN

Russian Avant-Garde Cinema
AS.300.666 (01)

Russian cinema was born out of the intense artistic experimentation of the fin-de-siècle avant-garde and developed in a climate of dramatic political and cultural change in the twenties and thirties. While subject to draconian censorship in the Soviet period, it nonetheless engaged in active dialogue with the film industries of Western Europe and America and had a lasting impact on world cinema. This course examines the extraordinary flourishing of avant-garde cinema in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s including films by Eisenstein, Vertov, Pudovkin, and Dovzhenko, their theoretical writings, and their far-reaching influence on film and film theory. All readings in English, films subtitled in English.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.300.800 (04)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

The Literature of Existence
AS.211.640 (01)

This seminar will explore some key expressions of what could loosely be called existentialist writing from the early twentieth century to the present day, to the end of coming to terms with an emerging “new politics of existence.” While there will be some emphasis on Spanish language materials, including writings by José Ortega Y Gasset, Miguel de Unamuno, María Zambrano, and Jorge Luis Borges, we will also be reading important works by Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, and Martin Hägglund.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/19
• PosTag(s): GRLL-ENGL

Dissertation Research
AS.300.803 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

In Study Field Exam
AS.300.809 (02)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/2
• PosTag(s): n/a

In Study Field Exam
AS.300.809 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Literary Pedagogy
AS.300.805 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Ind Stdy-Field Exams
AS.300.801 (03)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/2
• PosTag(s): n/a