PROGRAM IN CRITICAL THEORY

2022-2023

• African American Studies // all year
  AFAM 480-0-21 Topics: Affect and Blackness (Hesse) FQ
  AFAM 440-0-20 Black Historiography (Biondi) FQ
  AFAM  420-0-20 Expressive Arts and Cultural Studies: Black Expressive Arts (Spigner) WQ
  AFAM  444-0-20 Civil Rights/Black Liberation (Taylor) WQ
  AFAM 480-0-21 Black Criticism (Jackson) WQ
  AFAM 441-0-20 History of Black Women in the Diaspora (Perry ) SQ
  AFAM 460-0-20 Black Social and Political Thought (Marquez) SQ
  AFAM 480-0-20 Black Studies, Native Studies, and Asian Settler Colonialism (Sharma) SQ
  AFAM 480-0-21Afro-Latin America (Bryant) SQ
  Co-listed with GNDR_ST 397 Black Feminist Theory (Bey) SQ

  Anthropology // all year
  ANTHRO 401-2-01 Logic of Inquiry in Anthropology (Robin) FQ
  ANTHRO 470-0-20 History of Anthropological Theory (Launay) FQ            
  ANTHRO 484-0-20 Seminar in Linguistic Anthropology: Language and Media (Shankar) FQ         
  ANTHRO 486-0-20 Evolution and Biological Anthropology (Kuzawa) FQ
  ANTHRO 401-4-1 Logic of Inquiry in Anthropology (Arispe-Bazan) WQ
  ANTHRO 490 Sexing the Middle East: Gender and Sexuality in the Making of a Region (Yildiz) WQ
  ANTHRO 490-0-22 Topics in Anthropology: Language, Race & Ethnicity in the U.S. (Shankar) SQ
  ANTHRO 490-22 REL 482-20 / Anthropology of Religion: Colonial Contexts (Molina) SQ

  Art History // all year
  ART HIST 460-0/CLT 487/MENA 411 Modernism in the Age of Decolonization (Feldman) FQ
  ART HIST 460-0 Socialist Axes of Exchange (Klaier) FQ
  ART HIST 460 Studies in 20th & 21st Century Art: Theories of Intention (Zorach) WQ
  ART HIST 460-0-3: Studies in 20th & 21st Century Art: Media Theory (Hodge) WQ
  - Combined course with COMM_ST and English

  Communication Studies // all year
  COMM_ST 425-0 Crowds, Riots, and the Politics of Direct Action (FQ)
  COMM_ST 414-0 - Classical Rhetoric and Its Afterlives (FQ)
  COMM_ST 525-0 - 21 Seminar-Problems in Comm Studies: Media Theory (Hodge) WQ
  - Combined course with ART_HIST and English

  Comparative Literary Studies // all year
  COMP_LIT 487-0-2 Studies in Literature and the Arts: Abstraction [Modernism in the Time of Decolonization (based on Block exhibition)] (Johnson) FQ
  COMP_LIT 411-0-20 Critical Practices: Cinema at the End of Film: Theories, Histories, Media (Torlasco) WQ - Combined course with FRENCH
  COMP_LIT 487-0-2 Studies in Literature and the Arts: The Right To Look – Photography and Racial and Gender Regimes of Visibility (Uslenghi) WQ
  COMP_LIT 488-0-22 Silvia Federici: For a Feminist Politics of the Commons (Ricciardi) WQ
  - Combined course with GNDR_ST
  COMP_LIT 488-0-23 Special Topics in Comparative Literature: Unethical Media (Verma) WQ
  - Combined course with RTVF
  COMP_LIT 412-0-20 ASIAN_AM 492 Fanon Now: Race, Gender, Coloniality (Deutscher /We) SQ
  COMP_LIT 481-0-: Habit and Habitation: On Walter Benjamin’s Media Anthropology (Deuber-Mankowsky) SQ
  (Combined course with GERMAN)
  COMP_LIT 486-0-21 Blue Humanities (Feinsod) SQ
  COMP_LIT 488-0-2 RTVF 584-0-21 Postcolonial Theory (Padmanabhan) SQ

  English // all year
  English 410 Introduction to Graduate Studies (Mwangi) FQ
  English 455 Studies in 19th Century Literature: Before Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Contours of African American Studies (Wilson) WQ
  English 465 Studies in Colonial & Postcolonial Literature: Terror in the Postcolony (Nadiminti) WQ
  English 471 Studies in American Literature: Black Criticism (Jackson) WQ
  ENGLISH 481-0-21: Studies in Literary Theory & Criticism: Media Theory (Hodge) WQ
  - Combined course with COMM_ST and ART_HIST
  ENGLISH  461-0-20: Blue Humanities (Feinsod) SQ
  (Combined with COMP_LIT)
  English 471 Studies in American Literature: American Women Auteurs, Novels, and Films: 1895-1960 (Stern) SQ

  French and Italian // all year

  FRENCH 493 Topics in Literary Theory (Durham) FQ
  FRENCH 492-0-20 Topics in Culture and Society: Beyond “French Feminism” (Dupas) WQ
  FRENCH 493-0-20 Topics in Literary Theory: Cinema at the End of Film: Theories, Histories, Media (Torlasco) WQ
  - Combined course with COMP_LIT

  German // all year
  GER 441 Studies in Communication and Culture: History of Aesthetics (Weltzman) FQ
  GER 408-0 Critical Theory and Religion (Helmer) WQ
  GERMAN  403-0-1: German Literature, Critical Thought and New Media 1900-1945: The Uncanny in Theory and in Literature (Weber) SQ
  GER 441 Habit and Habitation: On Walter Benjamin’s Media Anthropology (Deuber-Mankowski) SQ
  (Combined course with COMP_LIT)

  Gender and Sexuality Studies  // all year
  GNDR_ST 490 SOCIOL 476 Sociology of Sexuality (Carrillo) FQ
  GNDR_ST 490 PHIL 461 Philosophy of Protest (Medina) FQ
  GNDR_ST 490 HISTORY 405 Sexual Knowledges: Science, Archives, Traces (Liu) FQ
  GNDR_ST 490 PERF_ST 515 Queer Love and Loss (Chambers-Letson)  FQ
  GNDR_ST 372-0-20: Gender, Sexuality, and Performance: Black Women on the Musical Stage (Osseo-Asare) WQ
  GNDR_ST 390-0-20: Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies: Queering Cartography: Reimagining the Map (Porter-Lupu) WQ
  GNDR_ST 490 Queer Theory (Enteen) WQ
  GNDR_ST 490 Silvia Federici For a Feminist Politics of the Commons (Ricciardi) WQ
  - Combined course with COMP_LIT
  GNDR_ST 490 REL 482 Feminist Theory and the Study of Religion (Jacoby) WQ
  GNDR_ST  397-0-20: Black Feminist Theory (Bey) SQ
  (Combined course with ENGLISH and AF_AM_ST)
  GNDR_ST  397-0-21: Chinese Feminisms (Zamperini) SQ

  History // all year
  HIST 405-0-22 Sexual Knowledge: Science, Archives, Traces (Liu) FQ
  HIST 405-0-24 Orientalism and its Discontents -  Seminar in Historical Analysis (Kinra) FQ
  HIST 405-0-26 Mapping the Discipline (Hein) FQ
  HIST 405-0-22 Seminar in Historical Analysis - Comparative Racial Thought (Glassman) WQ
  HIST 405-0-24-gender-history-as-global-history (Stanley) WQ
  HISTORY  405-0-26: Understanding Marx (Cherry) SQ

  Musicology // No CT courses 2022-2023

  Performance Studies // all year
  PERF ST 515 Queer Love and Loss (Chambers-Letson) FQ
  PERF ST 305 Critical Race Theory (Chambers-Letson) FQ
  PERF ST 410: Studies in Performance (George) FQ
  PERF ST 515 Problems in Performance Studies (Christian) FQ
  PERF_ST 321-0-1 Performance, Sex and Censorship (Chambers-Letson & Rains) WQ
  - Combined course with RTVF
  PERF_ST 515-0-21 Seminar: Problems in Performance Studies: Performance, Race and Media (Chambers-Letson & Petty) WQ
  - Combined course with RTVF
  PERF_ST  515-0-1: Black/Queer Bodies (Akinbola) SQ

  Philosophy // all year
  PHIL 410 Studies in Ancient Philosophy (Monoson) FQ
  PHIL 461 Social and Political Theory: Philosophy of Protest (Medina) FQ
  PHIL 361 Topics in Social and Political Philosophy (Martin) FQ
  PHIL 315 Studies in French Philosophy (Deutscher) FQ
  PHIL 313 Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Mueller) WQ
  PHIL 315-0-20 Studies in French Philosophy (Deutscher) WQ
  Phil 467 Seminar in Critical Race Theory (Barnes) WQ
  PHIL  410-0-20: Fanon, Now: Race, Gender, Coloniality (We & Deutscher) SQ
  (Combined with COMP_LIT)

  Political Science // all year
  POLI_SCI 441 Art politics (Loriaux), taking place in Paris FQ
  POLI_SCI 441: International Political Economy (Nelson) FQ
  POLI_SCI 461 Ancient Political Thought (Monoson) FQ
  POLI_SCI 440 International Relations Theory (Alter) WQ
  POLI_SCI 485 Global Theory Workshop (Nili) SQ
  POLI_SCI  469-0-20: Special Topics in Knowledge & Politics (Stevens) SQ

  Religious Studies // all year
  GER 408 Critical Theory and Religion (Helmer) WQ
  REL 460-20 Graduate Seminar: Topics in Christianity: Medieval Women Writers (Newman)
  RELIGION 481-1-20 Classical Theories of Religion (Ingram) WQ
  REL 482  GNDR_ST 490 Feminist Theory and the Study of Religion (Jacoby) WQ
  REL 482-20 / ANTHRO 490-22 Anthropology of Religion: Colonial Contexts (Molina) SQ

  Radio, Television, and Film // all year
  RTVF 411-0- Cultural History of Television (Spigel) FQ
  RTVF 443-21 Intersectionality and New Media - Advanced Seminar in Film & Video (Christian) FQ
  RTVF 398-0-22 Symposium: Issues in RTVF: Video Game Theory & Criticism (Fiorilli) WQ
  RTVF 398-0-23 Symposium: Issues in RTVF: Film, Media, & Liberation Movements (Turcios) WQ
  RTVF 398-0-25 Symposium: Issues in RTVF: Sex, Censorship & the Art of Queer/Trans Life (Chambers-Letson & Rains) WQ
  -Combined course with PERF_ST
  RTVF 443-0-20 Advanced Seminar in Film & Video: Race, Performance & Media (Chambers-Letson & Petty) WQ
  - Combined course with PERF_ST
  RTVF 584-0-21 Research Seminar: Unethical Media (Verma) WQ
  RTVF 584-0-21 Postcolonial Theory (Padmanabhan) SQ
  

  Slavic Languages // all year
  SLAVIC 411-0 Proseminar: Literary Theory and Philosophy (McReynolds) FQ

  Sociology // all year
  SOCIOL 476-0 Sociology of Sexuality (Carrillo) FQ
  SOCIOL 476-0 Global Capitalism and Law (Carruthers) FQ
  SOCIOL 406-1 Classical Theory in Sociological Analysis(Bashi-Treitler) FQ
  SOCIOL 406-3 Contemporary Theory in Sociological Analysis (Espeland) WQ
  SOCIOL 410-0Theories of Race and Ethnicity (Stewart) SQ

  Spanish and Portuguese // all year
  SPANPORT415-0 Studies in the 19th Century Literature and Cultures (Bouzaglou) FQ
  SPANPORT 450-0 Topics in Cultural Studies: Utopia and Dystopia in Caribbean Literature and Culture (Maguire) FQ
  SPANPORT 410-0-1 Topics in Early Modern Literatures and Cultures: Keywords in Early Colonial Latin American Literature (Egan) WQ
  SPANPORT 450-0: Topics in Cultural Studies: Theory and History of the Avant-Garde (Caballero)
  SPANPORT 455-0-1 Comparative Studies in Latin American and/or Iberian Literature and Cultures: The Right To Look – Photography and Racial and Gender Regimes of Visibility (Uslenghi) WQ

  Theatre and Drama // No CT courses 2022-2023