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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, 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, French Studies, the Department
of Language Research and Teaching, History,
Film Studies, and European and Mediterranean
Cultures. Faculty are involved in the
interdisciplinary minors in Urban Studies,
Visual Culture, Gender Studies, Classical
Civilization, Critical Theory, Film Studies,
French Studies, Medieval Studies, 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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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
8 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
8 Social Experience and Organization
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 Le Plaisir du roman: Great Stories of the XIXth Century
*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 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
8 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
8 Social Experience and Organization
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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 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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Linda
Martz's article "Frederick Pethick-Lawrence:
l'homme parmi les suffragettes" was just
published in
Ces
Hommes qui epousèrent la cause des femmes
by Les Editions de l'Atelier, in a volume
edited by Martine Monacelli and Michel
Prum with introductions by Françoise
Heritier and Geneviève Fraisse. |
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Claudia Roda presented a poster “Modelling
responses to the first few hours of
exposure to new languages” at the CLIN
2010 conference (Computational Linguistics
In The Netherlands) which took place in
Utrecht on February 5. The poster was
coauthored with Rebekah Rast and Georgi
Stojanov. For more info please visit
http://www.clin.nl/20/ |
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[AUP - Posted 4 Mar 2010] |
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Alice
Craven’s article "Science Through Brecht’s
Lens: Counter-Intuitive Truths in the
Reverse Angle" will be published in an
edited volume entitled
Science,
Technology and the Humanities: A New
Synthesis, in Spring 2010. |
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[AUP - Posted 2 Feb 2010] |
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Dan
Gunn’s translation of Simon Leys’s essay
“The Experience of Literary Translation”,
first published in The Cahiers Series
no.9, was reprinted in
The Best
Australian Essays 2009 (ed.
Robyn Davidson). This volume also
reprinted J.M.Coetzee’s review, “The
Making of Samuel Beckett”, of
The
Letters of Samuel Beckett Volume I
(of which Dan Gunn is co-editor). The
Beckett letters volume was chosen by
The
Economist in its
“Books of the Year”, as it was by
Barnes &
Noble Review.
Several critics chose the volume among
their “Best Books of 2009”: Robert
Douglas-Fairhurst in
The
Telegraph; David
Sexton in the
London
Evening Standard;
Tom Stoppard in
The
Guardian;
Gabriel Josipovici, Paul Muldoon, Seamus
Heaney, and Stefan Collini in the
TLS,
the last of whom described the publication
as “a triumph.” (See
link). |
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Lissa
Lincoln will be conducting a seminar
series on "Law, Literature and History"
with jurist Marcela Iacub (CNRS), at the
Ecole des hautes études en sciences
sociales (EHESS). The seminar will take
place on the first Monday of every month
from 17:00-19:00 and is open to the
public. |
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[AUP - Posted 2 Feb 2010] |
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Jula
Wildberger has completed her article on
"Fate" for the
Blackwell
Encyclopedia of Ancient History.
(View
here). Professor Wildberger has also
been invited to become a Fellow of the
Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of
Erfurt, to present her work during a short
visit and become part of the research
group Religious Individualization in an
Historical Perspective. |
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