AY 2018/2019

TBA Kate van Orden In this course, you become an amateur musician in Renaissance England and learn to play the viola da gamba in a consort. Through this combination of research and hands-on learning, we investigate repertory, culture and musical life...

M 3:00pm - 5:45pm, Barker 269 (FAS) Leah Price Reading-list to be determined in consultation with seminar members will include Austen, Brontë, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Collins, Trollope, read against both contemporaneous and new criticism and theory...

T Th 10:30am - 11:45am, Sever 308 (FAS) Leah Price How and why the novel became the central genre of modern culture. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Gaskell, North and South, Dickens, Bleak House, Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Trollope, The Warden, and Eliot...

W 3-5:45 Location:TBA Si Nae Park This graduate seminar introduces students to Korean literature within an intricate transcultural and translingual matrix of other preexisting literary texts by focusing on writers and the books that served as their...

M 3-5:45, Yenching Library 213 (FAS) Si Nae Park 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...

M W 3-4:15 Location TBA Deidre Lynch The novel’s emergence as a new literary form and the remarkable record of narrative experimentation that emergence involved, as seen in works by Behn, Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, Hogarth, Sterne, and Austen...

T 12:00pm - 2:45pm, 2 Arrow 318 (FAS) Jeffrey Hamburger In a networked age, diagrams are everywhere. From philosophy, semiotics and computer science to the burgeoning field of graphics, diagrams visualize knowledge in critical ways. This seminar will look...

T 9-11:45 am Location TBA Alex Csiszar What is historical method, and in what sense might history be made a science? Proposed answers to these questions have varied over time, in part according to changing conceptions of science and its methods. Course...

Th 3pm-5:45pm Location: TBA Alex Csiszar Does information have a history? If the control and manipulation of data has now become central to politics, economics, and daily life, how did we get to this point? What came before this age of information, bits...

W 3pm-5:45pm, Location TBA David Atherton This course offers students a comprehensive introduction to the literature of Japan’s medieval centuries (broadly conceived as the 12th through 16th centuries, or the last decades of the Heian period to the end of...