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101-8 First-Year Writing Seminar

20: Neon Genesis Evangelion: Ideas, Inspirations, and - First-Year Writing Seminar - Wenhan Zhang - Mon, Wed 11:00AM - 12:20PM

200-0 Introduction to Literary Theory

1: Introduction to Literary Theory - Wenhan Zhang - Mon, Wed 2:00PM - 3:20PM

201-0 Reading World Literature

21: Reading World Literature - Jennifer LeeAnne Cecelia Weintritt - Tues, Thurs 2:00PM - 3:20PM

202-0 Interpreting Culture

1: Icons, Legends, and Myths in Brazil - Interpreting Culture - Mirella Gomes da Silva - Mon, Wed 1:00PM - 1:50PM
11: Gender & Revolution in Soviet Russian Culture - Interpreting Culture - Clare A Cavanagh - Tues, Thurs 12:30PM - 1:50PM
21: French Existentialism - Interpreting Culture - Scott P Durham - Tues, Thurs 11:00AM - 11:50AM

205-0 Reading Difference

1: Colonial Korean Literature & Culture - Reading Difference - Jeong Eun We - Tues, Thurs 11:00AM - 12:20PM
20: Intro to Feminist Theory - Reading Difference - Pascal Brixel - Tues, Thurs 3:30PM - 4:50PM

211-0 Readings in Genre

1: Coming of Age - Readings in Genre - Jules D Law - Mon, Wed 9:30AM - 10:50AM

270-0 Literatures in Translation

01: Cervantes - Literatures in Translation - Caroline Rose Egan - Mon, Wed 10:00AM - 10:50AM
20: Yiddish Literature and Culture in the 20th Century - Literatures in Translation - Hanna Tzuker Seltzer - Tues, Thurs 2:00PM - 3:20PM

303-0 Movements and Periods

20: Finance Fictions: The Japanese 'Economic Novel' - Movements and Periods - Patrick James Noonan - Tues, Thurs 3:30PM - 4:50PM

305-0 Studies in Film, Media, and Visual Culture

22: Intro to Japanese Cinema I: Early Cinema to the Go - Studies in Film, Media, and Visual Culture - Patrick James Noonan - Tues, Thurs 2:00PM - 3:20PM
23: German Contributions to World Literature: German C - Studies in Film, Media, and Visual Culture - Erica Suzanne Weitzman - Mon, Wed 12:30PM - 1:50PM

306-0 Studies in Race & Ethnicity

1: Transpacific Literature: Saboteurs and Tricksters - Studies in Race & Ethnicity - Jeong Eun We - Tues, Thurs 3:30PM - 4:50PM

312-0 Major Authors and Texts

1: The Uncanny (Unheimlich) in Theory and Literature - Major Authors and Texts - Samuel Weber - Mon 1:00PM - 3:50PM
21: Proust - Major Authors and Texts - Scott P Durham - Tues, Thurs 2:00PM - 3:20PM

412-0 Literary Studies Colloquium

20: Romanticism East and West - Literary Studies Colloquium - Clare A Cavanagh - Tues 4:00PM - 6:50PM

413-0 Comparative Studies in Theme

20: Politics and Poetics of Language and Writing - Comparative Studies in Theme - Nasrin Qader - Tues 2:00PM - 4:50PM

481-0 Studies in Literary Theory

1: Proseminar: How to Read - Studies in Literary Theory - Erica Suzanne Weitzman - Wed 3:00PM - 5:50PM
20: Russian Formalism - Studies in Literary Theory - Nina Gourianova - Mon 3:00PM - 5:50PM

486-0 Studies in Literature & the Disciplines

20: Global Caste - Studies in Literature & the Disciplines - Laura Rebecca Brueck - Wed 9:00AM - 11:50AM

488-0 Special Topics in Comparative Literature

20: From Biopolitics to Necropolitics: Foucault, Agamb - Special Topics in Comparative Literature - Alessia Ricciardi - Thurs 3:00PM - 5:50PM

490-0 Independent Reading

20: Independent Reading - Corey Byrnes - TBA