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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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Urban Studies
Visual Culture
Gender Studies
Classical Civilization
Critical Theory
Film Studies
French Studies
Medieval Studies
Renaissance Studies |
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For more information about the programs offered in the
Department of Comparative Literature and English, you may
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Contact
Geoffrey Gilbert |
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Grenelle, AUP: 147, Rue de Grenelle, 75007, Paris (Métro: La Tour-Maubourg, Ecole Militaire, Alma-Marceau, Invalides) |
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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
Languages Across Disciplines 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, inviting visiting speakers, and
enabling student conferences and other
activities. The department has working
relations with professional bodies such as
the Dalkey Archive Press, Shakespeare and
Co. bookstore, and the Bilingual Acting
Workshop.
Comparative Literature Major
The Comparative Literature Major offers
students broad and rigorous knowledge of
literature from antiquity to the present in
its historical and geographical contexts,
and illuminates that knowledge with close
analysis of the details of literary
production. Knowledge and analysis are
informed by related work in other
disciplines, by attention to linguistic and
cultural diversity, and by recent movements
in literary and critical theory. Solid
knowledge, critical praxis, and strong
linguistic skills form the foundations of
professional skills and creative production.
Students are encouraged to build skills and
knowledge in two or three
literature-language areas, and to develop
and articulate a personal focus for their
reading, which issues in a portfolio of work
and a senior thesis in the final year.
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will have the tools to explore and
reflect critically on works of literature,
and to describe and analyze their formal
features, in their historical, geographical,
and generic contexts, and will inform their
essays with appropriate knowledge of
traditional and recent methods in literary
scholarship. Students will be able to
analyze and interpret individual literary
texts, and make enlightening connections
with other works, in the light of
responsible and informed awareness of
national and other traditions and of
cultural and linguistic diversity. Honors
students will have the capacity to write
about literary texts written in three
languages. In the context of their liberal
arts education, students will relate their
work on literature to the methods and
contents of other disciplines. Students will
develop skills in professional writing in
the cultural sphere. The culture of the
department encourages students to show
intellectual ambition, creativity, and
imagination, and to develop and articulate a
personal focus for their study, and ensures
that they have the written skills to be able
to express all of the above clearly and
elegantly.
Major in Literary Studies and the Creative
Arts
The Major in Literary Studies and the
Creative Arts provides a forum within which
students relate academic study to their own
creative production in literature, drama,
and the fine arts. In conjunction with the
Comparative Literature Major, students gain
broad and rigorous knowledge of literature
in its historical and geographical contexts.
That knowledge is coupled with close
analysis of the details of literary
production. Knowledge and analysis are
informed by related work in other
disciplines and by attention to linguistic
and cultural diversity. In classes taught by
creative practitioners, students produce
creative work and develop creative and
professional skills, and demonstrate the
capacity to reflect upon, analyze, and
evaluate their own work. Students are
encouraged to develop and articulate a
personal focus for their reading and their
creative production, which issues in a
portfolio combining academic and creative
work, and a senior project in the final
year.
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will have the tools to explore and
reflect critically on literature, and to
describe and analyze their formal features,
in their historical, geographical, and
generic contexts. They will improve their
skills in their chosen field of creative
production (literature, drama, or fine
arts), and will demonstrate the capacity to
interpret and evaluate their own creative
production in the light of their academic
study. Students will be able to analyze and
interpret individual literary texts, and
make enlightening connections with other
works, in the light of responsible and
informed awareness of national traditions
and of cultural and linguistic diversity.
They will develop skills in professional
writing in the cultural sphere. In the
context of their liberal arts education,
students will relate their work on
literature to the methods and contents of
other disciplines. The culture of the
department encourages students to show
intellectual ambition, creativity, and
imagination, and to develop and articulate a
personal focus for their study, and ensures
that they have the written skills to be able
to express all of the above clearly and
elegantly.
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Major in
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE |
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FirstBridge
8 FirstBridge courses change every year.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
8 EN 1010 College Writing, EN 2020 Writing and Criticism
Up to 22 French through FR 2035 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 1025 The World, the Text, and the Critic I
CL 1050 The World, the Text, and the Critic II
CL 2085 Literary Criticism and Theory
CL 3020 Production, Translation, Creation, Publication
CL 4075 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 2000-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 2053 The Golden Age in Spain and Europe (Ren)
*CL 2054 Modern Latin American and Spanish Literature
*CL 2055 Saints and Sinners in the Renaissance (Ren)
*CL 2113 The Beginnings of European Literature: Ancient
Greece (Class)
*CL 3029 Renaissance Comparative Literature (Ren)
*CL 3052 European Romantic Poetry: Feeding Upon Infinity
CL 3058 The Realist Novel: Documents and Desires
CL 3064 Magic Realism and the Fantastic
*CL 3068 Worlds of Russian Fiction
*CL 3074 Russian Modernism
CL 2031 American Fiction (1845-1970)
Interdisciplinary Approaches
CL 3027 Law, Morality, Society: Guilt in Translation
CL/PL 3030 Philosophy and the Theatre
CL 3060 Literature and the Political Imagination in the Nineteenth Century
CL/FM 3069 The Aesthetics of Crime Fiction
*FR/PY 3090 Topics in Literature and Psychoanalysis
CL 4000 Interdisciplinary Topics in Literature
Writing and Geopolitics
CL/EN 2051 English Literature before 1800
CL/EN 2052 English Literature since 1800
CL 2056 French & American Exchanges in Italian Literature
*CL/HI 3033 Discovery and Conquest: Creation of the New World (Ren)
CL/HI 3053 In 1871…: Case Study in Comparative Literature and History
CL 3062 Conquering Colonies: America and European Literature
CL 3071 20th Century Latin American Writers
*ES/CL 3003 European Urban Culture: Naples and Palermo
ES/CL 3010 European Urban Culture: Edinburgh the City, Scotland the Kingdom
*FR/ES 3040 La France au-delà des mers
Writing Identities and Desires
*CL 2019 Socio-Political Space in Classical Antiquity (Class)
*CL 2057 The Rise of the Hero and Poet in French Literature (Med)
*CL 2058 Loves Sacred and Profane in French Lyric (Ren)
*CL 2115 Forming a Western Cultural Identity: The Literature of Ancient Rome
(Class)
CL 3051 Paris as a Stage for Revolution
CL/ES 3043 The Attractions of Paris
*FR/CL 3036 Issues in French Women’s Writing
*FR/HI 3016 Histoire des Idées I (Ren)
*FR/HI 3018 Histoire des Idées II
Literature and the Contemporary
*FR/CL 2075 Theater in Paris
CL/GS 2006 Contemporary Feminist Theory
CL 2085 Literary Criticism and Theory
FR/FM 3011 Issues in Contemporary French Film and Literature
CL 3065 Post-war European Literature
CL 3081 Postcolonial Literatures and Theories
CL 3076 Modern Sexuality and the Process of Writing
EN 3040 The Study of Language
CL 4000 Interdisciplinary Topics in Literature
Author Focus
*CL/PL 3017 Key Texts of Greek and Roman Antiquity (Class)
*CL/ES 3025 Dante and Medieval Culture (Med)
CL/DR 3038 Shakespeare in Context (Ren)
CL/FM 3048 Shakespeare and Film (Ren)
*CL 3056 Dostoevsky and the 19th Century Novel
*CL/ES 3059 Baudelaire and Flaubert
CL 3063 Kafka and World Literature
CL 3073 Ulysses and British Modernism
CL 3079 Proust and Beckett
LT/CL 3050 Intermediate Latin II
LT/CL 4050 Advanced Study in Latin
GK/CL 3070 Intermediate Ancient Greek II
GK/CL 4070 Advanced Study in Ancient Greek
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 128 credits. |
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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 1010 College Writing, EN 2020 Writing and Criticism
Up to 22 French through FR 2035 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 1025 The World, the Text, and the Critic I
CL 1050 The World, the Text, and the Critic II
CL 3020 Production, Translation, Creation, Publication
CL 4075 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 3000 Creative Writing
FM/CL 2028 The Art of Screenwriting
DR/EN 2000 Theater Arts
DR/FR 2077 Acting in French
CL/FR 2075 Theatre in Paris
AR 1010 Introduction to Drawing
AR 1015 Introduction to Painting
AR 1020 Materials and Techniques of the Masters
AR 1060 Introduction to Photography and Documentary Expression
AR 2012 Drawing II
AR 2016 Painting II
AR 2031 Introduction to Sculpture
CL 3098 Internship
FM/CM 2018 Writing Fiction for Television
FM 3063 Making a Documentary
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Communicative
Objects Seminar Series
Spring 2012
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The Communicative Objects Seminar Series is part of the partnership
between AUP and Eugene Lang and aims to put in dialogue scholars from
Paris and New York. |
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 March
22 »
Young Writers
and Translators at AUP
The Department of Comparative Literature and
English and the Masters in Cultural
Translation invite the community to The
Young Writers and Translators at The American
University of Paris Reading. On Thursday,
March 22, at 18:00. |
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Alice
Craven delivered a videoconference paper,
"Black Neo-Baroque: Samuel Fuller's White
Dog and Hollywood Racism" at the
conference Interculturality in the
Construction and Deconstruction on the
Color Black held in Sousse, Tunisia, in
February. |
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With
his co-editor George Craig, Dan Gunn read
from and discussed
The
Letters of Samuel Beckett Volume II
at the Cambridge University Bookshop in
Cambridge (1 February), and at the London
Review of Books bookshop in London (2
February). This volume received further
reviews: in
Areté,
Estatão (Brazil),
The Los
Angeles Review of Books, Bookforum,
The-The Poetry blog, and
The
Sydney Morning Post. |
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Daniel
Medin was recently named European Editor
for the
Quarterly Conversation, an online
periodical of literary reviews and essays.
This March he will deliver a lecture on
Dickinson, Beckett and others at the Piet
Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. He will also
participate on a panel at the Festival
Robert Walser in Newcastle upon Tyne. |
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Rebekah
Rast’s co-authored chapter, “Language
teaching and acquisition: What can we
learn from ab initio learners?”, has been
published. Co-authored with Christine
Dimroth (Universität Osnabrück) and
Marzena Watorek (Université Paris 8), it
appears in Discours, acquisition et
didactique des langues, les termes d'un
dialogue in the Sciences du Langage
Collection of Orizons, Paris. |
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Jula
Wildberger has published a paper on the
literary form of Plato's Symposium: “Die
komplexe Anlage von Vorgespräch und
Rahmenhandlung und andere
literarisch-formale Aspekte des Symposion”
in
Platon, Symposion. Christoph Horn,
ed. Berlin: Akademie Verlag (Reihe:
Klassiker Auslegen), 2012. 17-34. |
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Jeffrey
Greene's
The Golden-Bristled Boar: Last Ferocious
Beast of the Forest continues to
receive good reviews, most recently from
Choice and Booklist (online), the latter
ending with "this elegant portrait
enchants." A special encore edition of
Greene's hour-long interview with Jean
Feraca on Here on Earth: Radio Without
Borders was broadcast over the holidays.
Two of Greene's poems, including "A
Coetzee Reading Group" written for AUP's
celebration of J.M. Coetzee, will be
appearing in Cerise Press,
Journal
of Literature, Arts, and Culture.
Greene has been commissioned to write for
three composers and three singers for
Mirror Visions' 20th anniversary concerts
in Paris and New York City. |
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Volume
I of
The
Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1929-1940,
of which Dan Gunn is an editor, won the
Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished
Edition of Letters (books published in
2009 and 2010 were eligible). The prize
was awarded at the MLA 2012 convention in
Seattle in January, where Dan Gunn
presented a paper entitled “Samuel Beckett
and Georges Duthuit: Epistolary Traces of
a ‘Volcanic’ Friendship”. On 2 December,
with his co-editor George Craig, he talked
at the Irish launch of Volume II of
The
Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1941-1956,
an event sponsored by the French
Department of Trinity College Dublin, the
Irish
Times, and the French Embassy in
Ireland. The following day, with George
Craig again, he lectured to graduate
students on the subject of translation and
the Cahiers Series. The second volume of
Beckett’s letters has received further
reviews: in
Irish
World, The BookReport, Il Sole 24 Ore,
the San
Francisco Book Review, Europa, The
National Post
(Canada),
The New Inquiry, The Times
(London),
The Guardian, The London Review of Books
(“annotated with generous and attentive
scholarship”);
The New
Republic (“What these letters
celebrate, and do justice to, is the sound
of a unique voice, telling the truth”);
the Daily
Telegraph (“Reading these humane
and generous letters, it’s hard not to
love Sam”); the
Washington Independent Review of Books
(“an important work of impeccable
scholarship directed not only at Beckett
academics”). The volume was chosen as the
best book of non-fiction of 2011 by
3:am
Magazine, and was selected by
several critics and writers as one of
their books of the year: by Adam Thirlwell
in the
New Statesman and
Libération; by J.M. Coetzee and
John Kinsella in
The
Australian (“so massive, and so
thorough in its scholarship, that I am
just coming to terms with its riches”); by
Charles McNulty in the
L.A.Times;
by Roy Foster, Paul Griffiths, Gabriel
Josipovici, and Marjorie Perloff, in the
Times
Literary Supplement; by David
Wheatley (“books of a lifetime”), Tim
Robinson (“the second, superbly edited
volume”), and John Banville (“What a
triumph of scrupulous scholarship the book
is”) in the
Irish
Times. In
The
Guardian John Banville chose
Writing
Beckett’s Letters by George Craig,
no.16 in the Cahiers Series, as one of his
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Editions
Ellipses released the second edition of
Linda Martz's coauthored bilingual
textbook,
Fiches
de civilisation américaine et britannique,
in December. A second edition of the
all-French version is expected to follow. |
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Anne-Marie
Picard gave a paper entitled "Hollowing
out a space for the subject to-be:
Robinson Crusoe’s textual family romance"
for the European Science Foundation,
standing committee for the Humanities
conference: “First Person Writing, Four
Way Reading” (Dec. 1-3, University College
of London, Senate House & Birbeck
College). |
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In December
2011 Jonathan Shimony and Jula Wildberger
presented a paper entitled "Teaching
classics through art: visual arts as a
tool for enhancing text comprehension and
appreciation" at the 2nd Visual Learning
Conference in Budapest, hosted by the
Visual Learning Lab, Department of
Technical Education, Budapest University
of Technology and Economics. The paper
reflects on experiences with an
EnglishBridge module "Images from
Classical Texts" offered at AUP in Spring
2010. |
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William
Dow was a keynote speaker for the
conference, "Re-Presentations of Working
Life," held at the Friedrich-Alexander
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany,
November 12-13. He organized the seminar,
New Journalism of the American 1960s as a
Counter-Cultural Narrative, which took
place at Université Paris-Est (MLV),
November 18. His article, “New Alignments,
New Discourses: A Reflection on teaching
Blaise Cendrars and John Dos Passos,” was
published in
The
Newsletter of the International
Association of Literary Journalism Studies
(Winter 2011), eds., David Abrahamson and
Bill Reynolds. Northwestern University.
Web. 13-15. |
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Margery
Arent Safir is the editor of
Robert
Wilson from Within, a publication
of the Arts Arena about theater artist and
AUP honorary doctorate recipient Robert
Wilson. The book was released in
November, in both an English and a French
edition, the latter published jointly by
the Arts Arena and Flammarion. This is
the second full-format Arts Arena
publication, following the earlier
Balanchine Then and Now. Professor
Safir presented the English-language book
in New York at PS1 MoMA, the New York
Public Library, and the Brooklyn Academy
of Music, and the French edition was
praised as "a bible for approaching the
work of Robert Wilson" in an article in
Paris
Match (November 3). Safir was
invited to present the book again in
Germany at the ZKM Museum for Art and
Media in Karlsruhe on November 27. |
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