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Comparative & World Literature News
- Sabrina Longo-Selvaggi, Comparative and World Literature major, is the winner of this year’s HRI undergraduate research prize for her essay, “Dying to Have Children: Breastfeeding and Necropolitics in Fascist Italy,” written for GWS 250: Gender and Representation, taught by Robin... Read full story Sabrina Longo-Selvaggi, Comparative and World Literature major, wins HRI Undergraduate Research Prize
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Indian Cinema in Context
Introduction to Indian mainstream (mainly Bollywood) cinema and its evolution through the last seven decades. Topics to be explored include, but not limited to, the relation between Indian society/culture and its cinematic representations, cinema's resistance to dominant nationalist and patriarchal ideologies
Global Consciousness and Literature
Exploration of the cultural and historical roots of globalization and the development of global consciousness from ancient Greece to the present, as reflected primarily in literature, but also with reference to historiography, cartography, religion, art, politics, economics, and popular culture.
Early Masterpieces of Western Culture
Comparative study of major works of literature, philosophy and culture in the Western tradition from the ancient world to the Renaissance, from Homer and the Bible to Shakespeare and Cervantes.
Modern Masterpieces of Western Culture
A comparative study of major works of literature, philosophy and culture in the Western tradition from the Enlightenment to today, from Descartes and Voltaire to Dickinson and Calvino. Emphasis on the works as representative of their historical and cultural period, as well as how these works create the cultural world we live in today.