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2024-2025

Fall 2024

Asian Languages and Cultures
ASIAN_LC 492-0-20/COMP_LIT 486-0-20: Human/Nonhuman/Posthuman (Byrnes)

Black Studies
BLK_ST 460-0-20 Race, Politics, Society, and Culture (Pattillo)
BLK_ST 475-0-20: Genealogy of Racism as a Concept: Deconstruction & Governmentality (Hesse)

Communication Studies
COMM_ST 414-0-1: Classical Rhetoric and Its Afterlives (Hariman)
COMM ST 425-0-1: Crowds, Riots, and the Politics of Disorder (Gaonkar)

Comparative LIterary Studies
COMP_LIT 410-0-20/FRENCH 494-0-20: Worlds of Literature (Bush)
COMP_LIT 486-0-20/ASIAN_LC 492-0-20: Human/Nonhuman/Posthuman (Byrnes)
COMP_LIT 487-0-1/MUSICOL 535-0-1: Music Historiography (Dohoney)

English
ENGLISH 465-0-20: Studies in Colonial & Postcolonial Literature (Nadiminti)

French and Italian
FRENCH 494-0-20/COMP_LIT 410-0-20: Worlds of Literature (Bush)

German
GERMAN 404-0-1: Affective Passages (Parkinson)

Gender and Sexuality Studies
GNDR_ST 490-0-26/ POLI_SCI 490-0-23/SOCI 476-0-23: Gender, Power, Politics (Orloff)

Musicology
MUSICOL 535-0-1/COMP_LIT 487-0-1: Music Historiography (Dohoney)

Philosophy
PHIL 315-0-21/COMP_LIT 383-0-21/GNDR_ST 490-0-28: Foucault and Fanon (Deutscher)
PHIL 390-0-21: Feminist Philosophy (Southgate)
PHIL 402-1-20, Proseminar II:  Theories of Resistance (Medina)
PHIL 423-0-20, Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy: Alain Locke (Barnes)

Political Science
POLI_SCI 490-0-20/RELIGION 482-0-20: Religion Politics: Global Perspectives (Hurd)

Religious Studies
RELIGION 482-0-20/POLI_SCI 490-0-20: Religion Politics: Global Perspectives (Hurd)

Sociology
SOCIOL 406-1-20 Classical Theory in Sociological Analysis (Espeland)

SOCIOL 460-0-20 Race, Politics, Society, and Culture (Pattillo)

Winter 2025

Lists will be updated as more information becomes available

Black Studies
BLK_ST 440-0-20 Black Historiography (Perry)
BLK_ST 480-0-21 Black Futures and Technology (Johnson)

Comparative LIterary Studies
COMP_LIT 414/GERMAN 402 Theories of Realism (Weitzman)
COMP_LIT 441-0-20 Critical Practices: Aesthetics and Political Theology (Fenves)
COMP_LIT 486-0-20 Studies in Literature and the Disciplines: Time, World, Power (Torlasco)
COMP_LIT 487-0-1/SPANPORT 450-0-1 Walter Benjamin’s Small History of Photography (Uslenghi)

English
ENGLISH 397-0-20 Cultures of Play (Soni)
ENGLISH 481-0-20 The Environmental Humanities--Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism (Dimick)

French
FRENCH 492-0-20 Foucault and AIDS (Dupas)

Gender Studies
GNDR_ST 490-0-20 Queer Theory (Enteen)
GNDR_ST 490-0-22 Knowledge and Politics (Stevens)

German
GERMAN 401-0-1/ COMP_LIT 411 German Literature and Critical Thought: Aesthetics and Political Theology (Fenves)
GERMAN 402-0-1/COMP_LIT 414 Theories of Realism (Weitzman)

Global Avant-Garde and Modernist Studies
GABS 400/ SPANPORT 401Introduction to Literary & Cultural Theory: Modernism and Medicine (Caballero) 

Latin American and Caribbean Studies
LATIN_AM 401-0 Special Graduate Topics; Crisis, contentious politics, and critical thought in Latin America (Valencia) 

Philosophy
PHIL 324-0-20/21 Studies in African American Philosophy (Barnes) 
PHIL 410-0-3 Special Topics in Philosophy: Human Rights (Lafont)

Political Science 
POLI_SCI 450-0-1 Contemporary Theory and Research in Comparative Politics (Winters)
POLI_SCI 469-0-20 Politics after Biopolitics: Foucault and his Critics (Stevens)

Religious Studies
REL 471-0-21: Religion & Capitalism (Bielo)

Spanish/ Portuguese
SPANPORT 401/GAMS 400 Introduction to Literary & Cultural Theory: Modernism and Medicine (Caballero) SPANPORT 450-0-1/COMP_LIT 487-0-1 Walter Benjamin’s Small History of Photography (Uslenghi)

Spring 2025

Lists will be updated as more information becomes available

Black Studies
BLK_ST 339 Unsettling Whiteness (Hesse)
BLK_ST 370 Political Blackness Across the Americas (Hesse)
BLK_ST 480-0-20/GNDR_ST 490 Topics: Afrofeminists: Black Women in Europe (Larcher)
BLK_ST 480-0-21 Topics: Neo-Liberalism and its Discontents (Márquez)

Comp Lit
COMP_LIT 420-0-20 Wynter’s Fanon: Race, Gender, Coloniality (We)
COMP_LIT 488-0-1/GER 402-0-1 Special Topics in Comparative Literature (Weber)

English
ENGLISH 365: Studies in Postcolonial Literature: Inhumane Conditions (Nadiminti)
ENGLISH 368: Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature: Women Writing Worldliness (Froula)
ENGLISH 441-0-20: Novel Utopias: Critique and Normativity in 18th Century Realism (Soni)
ENGLISH 461: Translation Problems: Coloniality, Resistance, Solidarity
ENGLISH 481: Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism: Mimesis and Its Doubles (West)

German

GER 402-0-1/COMP_LIT 488-0-1 Special Topics in Comparative Literature (Weber)

Gender Studies
GNDR_ST 321/HIST 390 Gender, Race, and the Holocaust (Cushman)
GNDR_ST 332-0-21 Sex, Gender, Sexuality, Race and Technoscience (Partridge)
GNDR_ST 341 Women’s Uprising: Thinking with Transnational Feminisms (Fu)
GNDR_ST 490/SPANPORT 480: Reading Gender Otherwise: Indigenous Movements and Literature in Latin America (West)
GNDR_ST 490-0-22/BLK_ST 480: Afrofeminists (Larcher)
GNDR_ST 490-0-23/REL 480: Queer and Transgender Studies in Religion (Schwarts)

Philosophy
PHIL 313-1-21 (graduate): Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Zuckert)
PHIL 375 Issues in Environmental Philosophy (Hettig-Rolfe)
PHIL 414: Nietzsche’s ‘On The Genealogy of Morality’ (Kirwin)
PHIL 415-0-20: Studies in French Philosophy: Foucault and After: From Biopolitics to Necroresistance (Deutscher)
PHIL 461: Seminar in Social and Political Theory: Theories of Exploitation (Brixel)

Political Science
POLI_SCI 384 International Responses to Mass Atrocities (Krcmaric)
POLI_SCI 390 Climate Change and Collective Action (McGrath)
POLI_SCI 390 Opposition to Capitalism in the 21st Century (Rice)
POLI_SCI 395 Black Political Thought (Tillery)

Religious Studies
REL 376-0-20: Christianity and the Making of Modernity (Helmer)
REL 482-21/GNDR_ST 490-23 Queer and Transgender Studies in Religious (Schwartz)

Spanish/Portuguese
SPANISH 397 Borders, Migrations, and Travel (Nuñez)
SPANPORT 480 Reading Gender Otherwise: Theories of Gender and Indigeneity in “Latin America” (West)