Spring 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...

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 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 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...

T, Th, 1:30pm-2:45pm, Location TBA David Atherton 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...

M, W, 10:30am-11:45am, 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...

M 12pm-2:45pm, Location TBA David Hall An introduction to book history and its connections w ith intellectual, cultural, and religious history, this course focuses on popular Protestantism in Britain and early America, together wit h certain "revolutions"...