Spring 2024 Graduate Courses

Spring 2024

French 203: Contemporary Francophone Literature

Instructor: Alain Mabanckou

Study of Francophone African, Caribbean, Vietnamese, or Quebec literatures and cultures, with specific attention to issues of cultural contact, language, colonialism, anticolonialism, nationalism, resistance and dissidence, and postcolonial theory.

German 211: Postwar Literature

Instructor: Yasemin Yildiz

Study of major works by German-speaking authors writing since World War II. Examination of issues such as identity crises, nationalism and divided Germany, gender expectations, and social-political attitudes.

Italian 214C – Studies in Medieval Literature: Petrarca’s Canzoniere

Instructor: Manuele Gragnolati

Seminar devoted to Petrarch’s Canzoniere, examining its poetic structure and its foundational role in shaping European lyric tradition from the Middle Ages through modernity.