CORE PROGRAM | 2021-2022
FALL TERM:
Please note that the format of fall classes is yet to be determined. (Updated June 26, 2021)
COL1000HF Faculty Seminar/S. Dowling – in person
COL5096HF The Problem of Translation: Historical, Theoretical and Pragmatic Perspective/M. Revermann – online
COL5117HF Freud and Psychoanalysis/J. Zilcosky – in person
COL5127HF “Queer Ethics and Aesthetics of Existence/J. Ricco – in person
COL5131HF Non Disclosure Act/E. Cazdyn
COL5143HF Dramaturgies of the Dialectic Part I: Hegel: The End of Art and the Endgame of Theater/R. Comay (New)
JFC5025HF Feminism and Postmodernism: Theory and Practice/B. Havercroft – online
JGC1740HF Humans and Things/J. Noyes. -online- The course will take place twice weekly from November 2 to December 9, 10am-12pm in the first week and thereafter 9-11am*
SPRING TERM:
COL5122HS Text and Digital Media/R. Bai
COL5135HS Climate Genres /E. Jagoe
COL5136HS Space, Place Power/H. Bahoora
COL5144HS Dramaturgies of the Dialectic Part II: Tragedy and Philosophy after Hegel/R. Comay (New)
COL5145HS Poetics of Personhood/S. Dowling (New)
COL5146HS Written in Blood: Caribbean Readings in Conflict and Healing/C. James (New)
JCD5135HS Race, Politics and Jewishness/ N. Seidman (New)
JFC1813HS Literature of Contact and Anthropological Thought 16th-18th Century/A. Motsch (Cancelled)
JFC5129HS Performative Autobiographical Acts: Painted and Photographic Representations of Self in Personal and Political Testimonials/J. LeBlanc
JFC5136HS Allegory and Allegorism in Literature and Fine Arts/S. Drouin (New)
JCO5121HS Classics and Theory Seminar: Orality, Textuality, Hypertextuality/K. Yu (New)
JGC1855HS Critical Theory – The French-German Connection/W. Goetschel
JOS5029HS Reading Cervantes/S. Rupp (New)
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COURSE SCHEDULE |2021-2022
FALL TERM:
Monday:
Tuesday:
10-12: COL5127HF Queer Ethics and Aesthetics of Existence/J. Ricco
1-3: COL5131HF Non Disclosure Act/E. Cazdyn
3-5: JFC5025HF Feminism and Postmodernism: Theory and Practice/B. Havercroft
Wednesday:
1-3: COL5117HF Freud and Psychoanalysis/J. Zilcosky
4-6: COL5143HF Dramaturgies of the Dialectic Part I: Hegel: The End of Art and the Endgame of Theater/R. Comay
Thursday:
11-1: COL5096HF The Problem of Translation: Historical, Theoretical and Pragmatic Perspective/M. Revermann
2-4: COL1000H Faculty Seminar/S. Dowling
Friday:
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WINTER/SPRING TERM:
Monday:
10-12: JOS5029H Reading Cervantes/S. Rupp
2-4: COL5146H Written in Blood: Caribbean Readings in Conflict and Healing/C. James
Tuesday:
1-3: COL5135H Climate Genres/E. Jagoe
3-5: COL5145H Poetics of Personhood/S. Dowling
Wednesday:
11-1:COL5136H Space, Place Power/H. Bahoora
2-4:JGC1855H Critical Theory – The French-German Connection/W. Goetschel
4-6:COL5144H Dramaturgies of the Dialectic Part II: Tragedy and Philosophy after Hegel/R. Comay
Thursday:
10-12: JCD5135H Race, Politics and Jewishness/ N. Seidman
12-2: JFC5129H Performative Autobiographical Acts: Painted and Photographic Representations of Self in Personal and Political Testimonials/J. LeBlanc
2-4: JFC5136H Allegory and Allegorism in Literature and Fine Arts/S. Drouin
4-6: JCO5121H Classics and Theory Seminar: Orality, Textuality, Hypertextuality/K. Yu
Friday:
10-12: COL5122H Text and Digital Media/R. Bai
Updated: April 26, 2021
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CORE PROGRAM | 2020-2021
All Comparative Literature fall and winter term courses will be available online. We are working with the rest of the university to determine, according to health and safety requirements, when and how we will be able to offer also in-person learning. This is an on-going process about which updates will be posted.
FALL TERM:
COL1000H Faculty Seminar/S. Dowling
COL5018H Gender, Agency, and Life Writing/B. Havercroft
COL5101H Diasporic Cities/A. Sakaki
COL5125H Literature, Trauma, Modernity/J. Zilcosky
COL5128H Tragedy: Instantiations of a Dramatic Form in Theatre, Philosophy, Opera and Popular Cinema/M. Revermann
COL5142H Women and Sex and Talk/J. Ricco (new)
WINTER TERM:
COL5032H Feminist Approaches to Medieval Literature/J. Ross
COL 5122H Text and Digital Media/R. Bai
COL5133H Comparative Modernisms/H. Bahoora
COL5140H Beckett and Philosophy/R. Comay (new)
COL5141H Beyond the Anthropocene: New Directions in Environmental Humanities/E. Jagoe (new)/
JFC5129H Performative Autobiographical Acts: Painted and Photographic Representations of Self in Personal and Political Testimonials/J. LeBlanc
JGC1855H Critical Theory – The French-German Connection/W. Goetschel
JLV5143H Censorship, Culture, Archive/A. Komaromi (new)
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Joint course codes: JLA: Complit-East Asian; JLV: Complit-Slavic; JLE: Complit-English; JFC: Complit-French; JGC: Complit-German; JHL: Complit-History; JOS: Complit-Spanish & Portuguese; JCY: Complit-Philosophy; JCO: Complit-Classics.
updated: June 12, 2020
COURSE SCHEDULE |2020-2021
All Comparative Literature fall and winter term courses will be available online. We are working with the rest of the university to determine, according to health and safety requirements, when and how we will be able to offer also in-person learning. This is an on-going process about which updates will be posted. .
Fall term:
Monday:
10-12: Graduate Writing Group
2-4: COL5125H Literature, Trauma, Modernity/J. Zilcosky
Tuesday:
10-12: COL5142H Women and Sex and Talk/J. Ricco
3-5: COL5018H Gender, Agency, and Life Writing/B. Havercroft
Wednesday:
Thursday:
10-12: COL5101H Diasporic Cities/A. Sakaki
Friday:
11-1: COL5128H Tragedy: Instantiations of a Dramatic Form in Theatre, Philosophy, Opera and Popular Cinema/M. Revermann
2-4: COL1000H Faculty Seminar/S. Dowling
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Spring/Winter term:
Monday:
10-12: Graduate Writing Group
2-4: COL5141H Beyond the Anthropocene: New Directions in Environmental Humanities/E. Jagoe, New
Tuesday:
1-3: COL5140H Beckett and Philosophy/R. Comay
Wednesday:
10-12: COL5032H Feminist Approaches to Medieval Literature/J. Ross
1-3: COL5133H Comparative Modernisms/H. Bahoora
3-5: JGC1855H Critical Theory – The French-German Connection/W. Goetschel
Thursday:
12-2: JFC5129H Performative Autobiographical Acts: Painted and Photographic Representations of Self in Personal and Political Testimonials/J. LeBlanc
2-4:JLV5143H Censorship, Culture, Archive/A. Komaromi
Friday:
11-1: COL 5122H Text and Digital Media/R. Bai
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All Comparative Literature fall and winter term courses will be available online. We are working with the rest of the university to determine, according to health and safety requirements, when and how we will be able to offer also in-person learning. This is an on-going process about which updates will be posted.
Updated: June 12, 2020
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CORE PROGRAM | 2019-2020
Fall term
COL1000HF Faculty Seminar/S. Dowling, Friday, 2-4
COL5110HF Post Capitalist Fantasy/E. Cazdyn, Thursday, 11-1
COL5130HF Comparison and “the Human”/U. Esonwanne, Tuesday, 11-1/Cancelled
COL5135HF Climate Genres/E. Jagoe, Monday, 1-3 /New
COL5136HF Space, Place and Power/H. Bahoora, Wednesday, 1-3/New
JFC5025HF Feminism and Postmodernism: Theory and Practice/B. Havercroft, Tuesday, 3-5
JGC1855HF Critical Theory – The French-German Connection/W. Goetschel/Wednesday 3-5
JHL1680HF – Revolutionary Women’s Cultures in East Asia, early to mid 20th century/A. Grewal, Tuesday 1-3
JLE5225HF Passage from History to Fiction/N. Kortenaar , Thursday 3-5 /New
JLV5134HF Theories of the Novel/K. Holland/Friday, 11-1/ New
JOS5019HF Cervantes and Renaissance Humanism/S. Rupp, Thursday, 1-3 /Cancelled
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Spring term
COL5047HS The Two Avant-Gardes/Komaromi, Thursday, 11-1
COL5096HS The Problem of Translation: Historical, Theoretical and Pragmatic Perspectives/M. Revermann, Friday, 12-2
COL5126HS Sports Narrated: Literary and Interdisciplinary Exploration of Sports represented in Textual and Visual Media/A. Sakaki, Tuesday, 10-12/New
COL5138HS Dramaturgy of the Dialectic/R. Comay, Wednesday, 4-6/New
COL5139HS Critical Race Theory/M. Nyquist/Monday, 10-1/New
JFC5105HS Collections of Knowledge: Encyclopedism and Travel Literature, 1500-1800/A. Mostch, Wednesday, 10-12
JFC5129HS Performative Autobiographical Acts: Painted and Photographic Representations of Self in Personal and Political Testimonials/J. LeBlanc, Thursday, 3-5
JHL1282HS Comparative Totalitarian Culture/T. Lahusen, Tuesday, 1 -3/New
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Special seminar: COL2100HS Corpus Infinitum: Art and the Possibility of Justice/D. Ferreira da Silva/condensed course from April 13 to May 10, 2020, from 1-4 pm:
April: Monday 13; Wednesday 15; Monday 20; Wednesday 22; Monday 27; Wednesday 29
May: Monday 4 ; Wednesday 6.
COURSE SCHEDULE |2019-2020
Most Comparative Literature courses are taught at the Centre for Comparative Literature, Isabel Bader Theatre, 3rd floor, Linda Hutcheon Seminar Room (BT319) unless indicated otherwise below. Please click on the course code to see its description.
Fall term:
Monday:
9:30-12:30: PhD Writing Group
1-3: COL5135HF Climate Genres/E. Jagoe
Tuesday:
1-3: JHL1680HF Revolutionary Women’s Cultures in East Asia, early to mid 20th century/A. Grewal
3-5: JFC5025HF Feminism and Postmodernism: Theory and Practice/B. Havercroft
Wednesday:
1-3: COL5136HF Space, Place and Power/H. Bahoora
3-5: JGC1855HF Critical Theory – The French-German Connection/W. Goetschel
Thursday:
11-1: COL5110HF Post Capitalist Fantasy/E. Cazdyn
3-5: JLE5225HF Passage from History to Fiction/N. Kortenaar
Friday:
11-1: JLV5134HF Theories of the Novel/K. Holland
2-4: COL1000HF Faculty Seminar/S. Dowling
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Spring term:
Monday:
10-1: COL5139HS Critical Race Theory/M. Nyquist
Tuesday:
10-12: COL526HS Sports Narrated: Literary and Interdisciplinary Exploration of Sports represented in Textual and Visual Media/A. Sakaki
1 -3: JHL1282HS Comparative Totalitarian Culture/T. Lahusen
Wednesday:
10-12: JFC5105HS Collections of Knowledge: Encyclopedism and Travel Literature, 1500-1800/A. Mostch
1:00-3:50: Interdisciplinary Writing Group
4-6: COL5081HS Benjamin’s Arcades Project/R. Comay
Thursday:
11-1: COL5047HS The Two Avant-Gardes/Komaromi
3-5: JFC5129HS Performative Autobiographical Acts: Painted and Photographic Representations of Self in Personal and Political Testimonials/J. LeBlanc
Friday:
10-12: Complit Writing Group
12-2: COL5096HS The Problem of Translation: Historical, Theoretical and Pragmatic Perspectives/M. Revermann
2-4: Complit Writing Group
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Most Comparative Literature courses are taught at the Centre for Comparative Literature, Isabel Bader Theatre, 3rd floor, Linda Hutcheon Seminar Room (BT319) unless indicated otherwise below. Please click on the course code to see its description.
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Updated: Jan 27, 2020
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CORE PROGRAM | 2018-19
Fall term
COL1000H Faculty Seminar/Coordinator: U. Esonwanne
COL5018H Gender, Agency, and Life Writing/B. Havercroft
COL5081H Benjamin’s Arcades Project/R. Comay
COL5129H New Addictions/E. Jagoe /New course
COL5133H Comparative Modernisms/H. Bahoora / New course
JGC1855H Critical Theory – The French-German Connection/W. Goetschel
JLA5082H The Rhetoric of Photography/ A. Sakaki
DRA3907HY Collisions and Common Ground: Art – Technology – Performance/P. Kleber
Spring term
COL5033H Visual Portraitures in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives/J. LeBlanc
COL5027H Memory, Trauma, and History/T. Lahusen
COL5117H Freud and Psychoanalysis/J. Zilcosky
COL5124H Public Reading/A. Komaromi
COL5128H Tragedy: Instantiations of a Dramatic Form in Theatre, Philosophy, Opera and Popular Cinema/M. Revermann
COL5131H Non Disclosure Acts/ E. Cazdyn/ New course
JFC1813H Literature of Contact and Anthropological Thought 16th-18th Century/A. Motsch
JLV5135H 1968: The Year of Revolution and Protest/D. Obradovic / New course
Joint course codes: JLA: Complit-East Asian; JLV: Complit-Slavic; JLE: Complit-English; JFC: Complit-French; JGC: Complit-German; JHL: Complit-History; JOS: Complit-Spanish & Portuguese; JCY: Complit-Philosophy; JCO: Complit-Classics.
