19th Century
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2024
Day/Time TBA Instructor Carranza A survey course on major works in German literature, philosophy, and critique from the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth century. Close reading of representative texts opens onto broader ramifications in cultural and intellectual...
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2025
Instructor Sütterlin Date/Time W 3:00 - 5:00 pm A survey course on major works in German literature, philosophy, and critique from the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth century. Close reading of representative texts opens onto broader ramifications in cultural and...
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2024
Instructor Dymek Day/Time T 12:00 - 2:00 pm What defines the self? In this course, we take a close look at the intricate philosophical investigations regarding the self within German Idealism. We study pivotal works by key figures like Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte...
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2024
Day/Time TBA Instructor Sütterlin
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2024
Day/Time T 12:00PM - 2:00PM Instructor Dymek Close reading of stories by Schiller, Tieck, Kleist, Hoffmann, Droste-Hülshoff, Stifter, Storm, Döblin, Kafka, Musil, Mann, Aichinger, and Bachmann. While the course focuses virtually entirely on the close reading of outstanding...
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2025
Instructor Burgard Day/Time T 12:00–2:45pmMajor movements in German literature and thought from the mid-18th to early 19th century: Enlightenment, Sentimentalism, Storm and Stress, Classicism, Romanticism. Readings include Kant, Klopstock, Lessing, Goethe, Lenz, Schiller...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time MW 10:30AM - 11:45AM Instructor Gordon A philosophical and historical survey of major debates in modern German social theory over the span of a century, from Nietzsche's anti-foundationalist critique of morality and truth to Habermas's attempt to rebuild a pragmatic...
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2024
Day/Time M 12:45PM - 2:45PM Instructor TBA With a camera positioned at the entrance to the director’s factory, Louis Lumière’s famous early film of 1895, La Sortie de l’usine Lumière à Lyon, captured workers as they left for the day. Today, surveillance practices have...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2024
Instructor Frank Johnson Date/Time T 12:45 - 2:45 pm This course uses Austrian literature to think through some of the most pressing questions of modern European (and, specifically, Austrian) history. We will read some of the greatest novels and novellas in modern German...
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2025
Instructor Hamilton Date/Time Th 12:45 - 2:45 pmSince antiquity, literary works have been drawn to music and the human voice: fascinated by their captivating force, seduced by their alluring charms, envious of their capacity to express the singularity of life and lived...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time M 12:45PM – 2:45 PM Instructor CarranzaThe brilliantly witty German physicist and satirical author Georg Christoph Lichtenberg once remarked that "The American who first discovered Columbus made a horrible discovery" ("Der Amerikaner, der den Kolumbus zuerst...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time T 12:00–2:45pm Instructor Sütterlin To explore key literary, cultural and critical theories, we pose questions through readings of classic and contemporary theorists, from Aristotle to Kant, Schiller, Arendt, Barthes, Foucault, Glissant, Ortiz, Kittler, and Butler...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2024
Instructor Pirozhenko Date/Time T TH 9:00 am - 10:15 am We need food to live. Consisting of protein, carbohydrates, fat, and other nutrients, food provides energy for our bodies. We have our own food preferences, dietary restrictions, family dishes, tastes, table manners...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2024
Instructor Frank Johnson Date/Time T Th 10:30 - 11:45 am German History loomed like a specter over the twentieth century. In the twenty-first century, Americans have been debating the relevance and legitimacy of comparisons between German history and our contemporary world...
Semester:
Fall
Year offered:
2024
Instructor Frank Johnson Date/Time M 9:45 - 11:45 am This graduate seminar is designed as a close and cooperative framework for reading new interpretative literature on Marx, with an emphasis on philosophical questions and contemporary debates concerning, e.g., Marxist...
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2025
Instructor Gordon Date/Time W 9:45 - 11:45 pmThis conference course, for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, will examine the significance of fascism both past and present. We will explore its historical emergence, its variations across time and space, and the...
Semester:
Spring
Year offered:
2023
Day/Time R 12:00–2:45pm Instructor Mitchell Examines Nordic folklore and folklife, with an emphasis on narratives, supernatural beliefs, and material culture from the 15th to the early 20th centuries, interpreted against additional sources of information drawn from the...