Graduate Courses

From the recent Andalusian play, “Clytemnestra. Una mujer.” Faculty expert, Kathleen L. Komar. Banner image: John Locke. Faculty expert, Kirstie McClure.

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Fall 2025

  • COM LIT 200A - Theory of Comparative Literature

    Instructor(s): Tamara Levitz

    Seminar, three hours. Study of theory of literature, with emphasis on genealogy of theoretical problems. S/U or letter grading.

  • COM LIT C253 - Post-Symbolist Poetry and Poetics

    Instructor(s): Kathleen Komar

    Seminar, four hours. Study of specific poets and poetics related to them during first half of 20th century. Texts may include poets such as W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Paul Valéry, R.M. Rilke, Gunnar Ekelöf, and Wallace Stevens. May be concurrently scheduled with course C153. Graduate students may meet as group one additional hour each week. S/U or letter grading.

  • COM LIT 290 - Contemporary Theories of Criticism: Fredric Jameson, French Theory, and Postcolonialism

    Instructor(s): Anjali Prabhu

    Study is anchored in work of late American critic Fredric R. Jameson, which is grounded in historical materialism. Revising aspects of Derrida, Foucault, and Lacan, Jameson drew from Georg Lukác's historical method as much as from Adorno, Althusser, Benjamin, Freud, and Sartre. Goal is to understand French theory with reference to its Hegelian moment (1930s-70s). Student projects should explore place of Francophone intellectuals (Aimé Césaire, Assia Djebar, Frantz Fanon, Édouard Glissant, Achille Mbembe, and V.Y. Mudimbé) within postcolonial theory.