AY 2017/2018

F 1pm-3:59pm Boylston 103 (FAS) Racha Kirakosian Description The goal of this full year's course is two-fold: in terms of research results, it will create an interactive on-line edition of a medieval Mary Magdalene legend transmitted in the Lower Rhine...

Si Nae Park F 10-11:59am This course is for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students interested in the book from pre-20th-century Korea. With a focus on the “vernacular book” (i.e., books within which the Korean language is inscribed and...

Ann Blair Online The advent of digital communications has prompted questions about how change in the technology of communication affects authors, readership, intellectual property and the business of publishing. By studying the long history of written...

W 3-4:59 pm Location TBA Thomas Cummins

Ioli Kalavrezou W 1-2:59pm Location TBA The seminar will study illustrated manuscripts that were produced in the Byzantine world from the 9th to the 15th century. Most of them are books, which contain religious texts: Old Testament, Gospels, Psalters etc...

M 11-11:59 W 11-11:59 Location: TBA Hannah Marcus Between 1500 and 1700, a number of hugely consequential things happened in Europe that have traditionally and collectively been called revolutionary – the Scientific Revolution. Copernicus and Galileo...

David Atherton W 1:00pm - 3:59pm Location:TBA This course explores the literature of the Edo period, a time that saw the emergence of a dynamic market for popular literature, the rise of new dramatic forms such as kabuki and puppet theater, the heyday of...

David Atherton Times TBA Location:TBA Poetry written by gods, incestuous aristocratic romances, exorcist theater, samurai fantasy novels, fart literature: traditional Japanese literature has something for everyone, and invites us to rethink our...

Alex Csiszar T 2:00pm - 3:59pm Location:TBA How and to what extent is knowledge shaped by the forms and genres through which it has been produced? Bringing history of science and technology together with media studies, book history, and cultural theory...

Deidre Lynch T 2:00pm - 3:59pm Location:TBA This course investigates the rise of the novel in conjunction with the rise of modern communications networks and information technologies. It investigates this literary genre’s accounts of people’s...