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The Department of Comparative Literature and
English houses the Comparative Literature
Major, the Major in Literary Studies and the
Creative Arts, the English Writing Program,
and the English Foundation Program, as well
as minors in Comparative Literature,
Classical Civilization, Medieval Studies,
Critical Theory, Ancient Greek, Latin, and
Theater and Performance. We engage in close
attention to the written word as a focus for
the analysis of historical, social,
philosophical and psychological processes,
for informed reflection on human value and
cultural diversity, and for the exercise of
creative imagination. Students are prepared
to be critical and creative thinkers, with
the capacity to use the English language
powerfully and precisely within a world of
many languages and cultures.
Interdisciplinary
Initiatives
The department works closely with faculty in
Philosophy, the
Department
of French Studies and Modern Languages,
Film Studies,
and History.
Faculty are involved in the
interdisciplinary minors Urban Studies,
Visual Culture, Gender Studies, Classical
Civilization, Critical Theory, Film Studies,
French Studies, Medieval Studies, Ancient
Greek, Latin, and Renaissance Studies, and
are central to the
MA in Cultural Translation.
Centers and
Partnerships
Faculty in the department are extremely
active in research and outreach, as
individuals and as part of many initiatives
within and beyond the university. Department
members organize or co-organize the
Center for Writers and Translators,
the
Arts Arena, the
AUP Public Lectures in the Humanities,
the Beckett Project, the
Saturnian Society,
and the
Transdisciplinary Research Seminar in the
Arts, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis.
Faculty are active in the AUP Lab Project,
in academic institutions and journals
(including the European Writing Centers
Association, the Centre des Recherches
Interuniversitaire sur les Champs Culturels
d’Amérique Latine, the Women's History
network, and Literary Journalism Studies)
and in organizing major international
conferences (including the recent
Richard Wright centenary conference),
inviting visiting speakers, and enabling
student conferences and other activities
(including Roots and Shoots). The department
has working relations with professional
bodies such as the Dalkey Archive Press,
Shakespeare and Co. bookstore, and the
Bilingual Acting Workshop.
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Jerome Charyn
Distinguished Professor Emeritus; Commandeur de l’Ordre des
Arts et des
Lettres.
BA, Columbia College.
Marc Pelen
Professor Emeritus
BA, MA, PhD, Princeton University.
Richard Pevear
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
BA, Allegheny College.
MA, University of Virginia. |
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Requirements for the Major in
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE |
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FirstBridge
8 FirstBridge courses change every year.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
8 EN 110 College Writing, EN 220 Writing and Criticism
Up to 22 French through FR 235 and FrenchBridge
4 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
4 Social Experience and Organization
4 from either of the above two categories
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
CORE
Required (17 credits)
CL 125 The World, the Text, and the Critic I
CL 150 The World, the Text, and the Critic II
CL 285 Literary Criticism and Theory
CL 320 Production, Translation, Creation, Publication
CL 475 Portfolio
Electives
Select seven courses freely from the following lists, building a
personal focus with the help of your advisor. At least three courses must be
at the 200-level; at least one course from each of the three periods:
Classical (Class); Medieval (Med); and Renaissance (Ren). (28 credits)
Students in courses marked with an asterisk may choose to read the texts in
English translation or in the original non-English language (students
studying for honors must take at least 2 courses in which they read the
texts in the original language).
Literary Movements
*CL 253 The Golden Age in Spain and Europe (Ren)
*CL 254 Modern Latin American and Spanish Literature
*CL 255 Saints and Sinners in the Renaissance (Ren)
*CL/FS 265 Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, Maupassant: Subjectivités romanesques au
XIXe siècle
*CL 313 The Beginnings of European Literature: Ancient Greece (Class)
*CL 329 Renaissance Comparative Literature (Ren)
*CL 352 European Romantic Poetry: Feeding Upon Infinity
CL 358 The Realist Novel: Documents and Desires
CL 364 Magic Realism and the Fantastic
*CL 368 Worlds of Russian Fiction
*CL 374 Russian Modernism
CL 231 American Fiction (1845-1970)
Interdisciplinary Approaches
CL 327 Law, Morality, Society: Guilt in Translation
CL/PL 330 Philosophy and the Theatre
CL 360 Literature and the Political Imagination in the Nineteenth Century
CL/FM 369 The Aesthetics of Crime Fiction
*FS/PY 390 Topics in Literature and Psychoanalysis
CL 400 Interdisciplinary Topics in Literature
Writing and Geopolitics
CL/EN 251 English Literature before 1800
CL/EN 252 English Literature since 1800
CL 256 French & American Exchanges in Italian Literature
*CL/HI 333 Discovery and Conquest: Creation of the New World (Ren)
CL/HI 353 In 1871 …: Case Study in Comparative Literature and History
CL 362 Conquering Colonies: America and European Literature
CL 371 20th Century Latin American Writers
*ES/CL 303 European Urban Culture: Naples and Palermo
ES/CL 310 European Urban Culture: Edinburgh the City, Scotland the Kingdom
*FS/ES 340 Littérature et Colonisation
Writing Identities and Desires
*CL 219 Socio-Political Space in Classical Antiquity (Class)
*CL 257 The Rise of the Hero and Poet in French Literature (Med)
*CL 258 Loves Sacred and Profane in French Lyric (Ren)
*CL 315 Forming a Western Cultural Identity: The Literature of Ancient Rome
(Class)
CL 351 The Romantic Novel of Revolution
CL/ES 343 The Attractions of Paris
*FS/CL 336 Issues in French Women’s Writing
*FS/HI 206 Histoire des Idées I (Ren)
*FS/HI 208 Histoire des Idées II
Literature and the Contemporary
*FS/CL 275 Theater in Paris
CL/GS 206 Contemporary Feminist Theory
CL 285 Literary Criticism and Theory
FS/FM 311 Issues in Contemporary French Film and Literature
CL 365 Post-war European Literature
CL 381 Postcolonial Literatures and Theories
CL 376 Modern Sexuality and the Process of Writing
EN 340 The Study of Language
CL 400 Interdisciplinary Topics in Literature
Author Focus
*CL/PL 317 Key Texts of Greek and Roman Antiquity (Class)
*CL/ES 325 Dante and Medieval Culture (Med)
CL/DR 338 Shakespeare in Context (Ren)
CL/FM 348 Shakespeare and Film (Ren)
*CL 356 Dostoevsky and the 19th Century Novel
*CL/FS 359 Baudelaire and Flaubert
CL 373 Ulysses and British Modernism
CL 379 Proust and Beckett
LT/CL 350 Intermediate Latin II
LT/CL 450 Advanced Study in Latin
GK/CL 370 Intermediate Ancient Greek II
GK/CL 470 Advanced Study in Ancient Greek
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 128 credits. |
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Requirements for the Major in
LITERARY
STUDIES and the CREATIVE ARTS |
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FirstBridge
8 FirstBridge courses change every year.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 8 EN 110 College Writing, EN 220 Writing and Criticism
Up to 22 French through FR 235 and FrenchBridge
4 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
4 Social Experience and Organization
4 from either of the above two categories
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
CORE
Required (13 credits)
CL 125 The World, the Text, and the Critic I
CL 150 The World, the Text, and the Critic II
CL 320 Production, Translation, Creation, Publication
CL 475 Portfolio
Electives for Literary Studies
Select four courses freely from the list of Electives for the
Comparative Literature Major, building a
personal focus with the help of your advisor.
(16 credits)
Students in courses marked with an asterisk may choose
to read the texts in English translation
or in the original non-English language.
Electives for Creative Arts
Select four courses freely from the following list,
building a personal focus with the help of your advisor. (16 credits)
EN/CL 300 Creative Writing
FM/CL 228 The Art of Screenwriting
DR/EN 200 Theater Arts
DR/FR 277 Acting in French
CL/FS 275 Theatre in Paris
AR 110 Introduction to Drawing
AR 115 Introduction to Painting
AR 120 Materials and Techniques of the Masters
AR 160 Introduction to Photography and Documentary Expression
AR 212 Drawing II
AR 216 Painting II
AR 231 Introduction to Sculpture
CL 398 Internship
FM/CM 218 Writing Fiction for Television
FM 363 Making a Documentary
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 128 Credits |
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Urban Studies
Visual Culture
Gender Studies
Classical Civilization
Critical Theory
Film Studies
French Studies
Medieval Studies
Renaissance Studies |
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 21-23
October, 2010
Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity
This conference will examine the multiple
facets of Henry James’s art of duplicity in
both fiction and non-fiction.
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 24-28
May, 2010
Crossing National Boundaries and Linguistic
Borders: (Re)Thinking and (Re)Situating
the Writing Center and WAC Connection in
Europe and Beyond
This conference will take place at AUP to
celebrate the European Writing Centers
Association's 12th birthday and the 7th
international gathering of a community of
scholars, professors, administrators,
students, writing center tutors and
professionals.
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 25-27 February,
2010
Law and Literature
The International Symposium / Colloque
International on Law and Literature - Theory
& Practice / Droit et littérature - Théories &
pratiques, will be held in Paris, Feb. 25-27,
2010 at the Institut National d’Histoire de
l’Art (INHA).
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 November
20-21, 2009
Hors Normes | International Conference in Law
and Literature
Despite their apparent separation, the fields
of law and literature have been closely linked
throughout history and in recent years have
become a fertile area of academic
investigation. Very developed in the
Anglo-Saxon world, but perhaps less known in
France, the movement “Law and Literature”
promotes a dialogue between legal scholars,
philosophers and literary scholars. The
confrontation of these two “fictions de
monde” allows a re-examination of Law and
Justice in their claims to universality. This
interdisciplinary conference presents an
exchange between specialists from different
disciplines (law, literature, as well as
philosophy, political science and film
studies) around a common interrogation of Law
and its limits.
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Daniel
Medin will present a paper titled "À la
Porte. Une leçon kafkaïenne de J. M.
Coetzee" at Kafka après "son" siècle, a
ten-day colloquium at the Centre Culturel
International de Cerisy-la-Salle this
July. He will also co-chair (and present
at) a day-long series of panels on Robert
Walser in Oakland this fall. |
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[AUP - Posted 17 June 2010] |
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Margery
Arent Safir's chapter "Laboratorios
fantasticos: literatura y ciencia"
(Fantastic Laboratories: Literature and
Sciences) was published in
Nuevos
hispanismos interdisciplinarios y
transatlánticos, edited by
Professor Julio Ortega, Head of Hispanic
Studies, Brown University, and published
by Iberoamericana in April 2010. Her
invited lecture on "Borges y Kafka," to be
delivered at an international colloquium
in Buenos Aires in April, was cancelled
due to the air transport problems caused
by the Icelandic volcano. |
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[AUP - Posted 17 June 2010] |
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William
Dow presented his article, “Literary
Journalism, Radicalism, and the Estranged
Modernism of John Dos Passos’s
Facing
the Chair and Blaise Cendrars’s
Rhum”
for the seminar Modernism and Radicalism
in the US: An Unbridgeable Gap? Sorbonne
Nouvelle Paris 3 on March 20. He also gave
a paper entitled “Sensational Gothicism in
Richard Wright’s
The
Outsider” for the European
Association of American Studies Conference
held at the Trinity and University
Colleges, Dublin, March 26-29. The second
volume of Literary
Journalism Studies (Northwestern
University), for which he is the managing
editor, was published early this year. |
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[AUP - Posted 6 May 2010] |
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Lissa
Lincoln was an invited speaker at an
international conference at the University
of Mumbai, India, commemorating the 50th
anniversary of the death of Albert Camus.
The conference took place on the 24-25
March and was hosted by the University of
Mumbai and the Indian Council of Social
Science Research (ICSSR). She also
organized and hosted the Regards Croisés
seminar on “The Vital and the Mortal”,
held at AUP, with invited speakers Alain
Prochianz (College de France) and Frédéric
Worms (ENS) on April 15. |
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[AUP - Posted 6 May 2010] |
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Anne-Marie
Picard-Drillien est désormais membre
associée du Groupe de recherche "Littérature
et poétiques comparée" de Paris X
Nanterre. |
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[AUP - Posted 6 May 2010] |
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Rebekah
Rast’s chapter “First exposure: Converting
target language input to intake” has been
published in M. Pütz & L. Sicola (Eds.),
Cognitive
Processing in Second Language Acquisition.
Amsterdam, John Benjamins. For more
information, please click
here. |
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[AUP - Posted 6 May 2010] |
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