Courses for Spring 2022

1. Course list
2. Courses for Spring 2022

	Title	Instructors	Location	Time	Description	Cross listings	Fulfills	Registration notes	Syllabus	Syllabus URL
COML 003-401	Intro To Queer Studies	Melissa E Sanchez	COLL 314	TR 01:45 PM-03:15 PM		ENGL003401, GSWS003401	Cultural Diversity in the US
COML 006-401	Hindu Mythology	Deven Patel	BENN 419	TR 01:45 PM-02:45 PM	Premodern India produced some of the world's greatest myths and stories: tales of gods, goddesses, heroes, princesses, kings and lovers that continue to capture the imaginations of millions of readers and hearers. In this course, we will look closely at some of these stories especially as found in Purana-s, great compendia composed in Sanskrit, including the chief stories of the central gods of Hinduism: Visnu, Siva, and the Goddess. We will also consider the relationship between these texts and the earlier myths of the Vedas and the Indian Epics, the diversity of the narrative and mythic materials within and across different texts, and the re-imagining of these stories in the modern world.	SAST006401, RELS066401	Arts & Letters Sector	Registration also required for Recitation (see below)
COML 006-402	Hindu Mythology	Kathryn Virginia Osowski			Premodern India produced some of the world's greatest myths and stories: tales of gods, goddesses, heroes, princesses, kings and lovers that continue to capture the imaginations of millions of readers and hearers. In this course, we will look closely at some of these stories especially as found in Purana-s, great compendia composed in Sanskrit, including the chief stories of the central gods of Hinduism: Visnu, Siva, and the Goddess. We will also consider the relationship between these texts and the earlier myths of the Vedas and the Indian Epics, the diversity of the narrative and mythic materials within and across different texts, and the re-imagining of these stories in the modern world.	SAST006402, RELS066402		Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
COML 006-403	Hindu Mythology	Aditya Narayan Bhattacharjee			Premodern India produced some of the world's greatest myths and stories: tales of gods, goddesses, heroes, princesses, kings and lovers that continue to capture the imaginations of millions of readers and hearers. In this course, we will look closely at some of these stories especially as found in Purana-s, great compendia composed in Sanskrit, including the chief stories of the central gods of Hinduism: Visnu, Siva, and the Goddess. We will also consider the relationship between these texts and the earlier myths of the Vedas and the Indian Epics, the diversity of the narrative and mythic materials within and across different texts, and the re-imagining of these stories in the modern world.	SAST006403, RELS066403		Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
COML 009-401	Intro Digital Humanities	Whitney A Trettien	DRLB 2C6	MW 10:15 AM-11:45 AM	Artificial intelligence, big data, and the internet of things are rapidly changing every aspect of our lives. The methods and questions of the humanities are critical to understanding these shifts. Run like a workshop, this course will explore various sites at Penn and around Philadelphia where humanists and artists are collaborating with scientists and engineers to solve the big problems facing our planet and our species. We’ll visit museums and special collections in search of the future of past. We’ll learn how scholars of race and gender are combating algorithmic bias in our search engines. And we’ll meet librarians who are helping climate scientists save their data from politics. Students will gain hands-on experience with writing grants, collaborating across disciplines, and developing research questions in digital humanities. They will also acquire basic facility and literacy with key digital tools like GitHub, XML/HTML, and online publishing platforms like WordPress and Scalar. Together, we will gain a critical, historical framework for understanding technology’s impact on our lives. Absolutely no prior coding experience is required. Coursework will involve regular in-class exercises, short response papers, and one mid-sized digital project.	ENGL009401, HIST009401				https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML009401
COML 010-401	Central & Eastern Europe: Cultures, Histories, Societies	Kristen R Ghodsee		CANCELED	The reappearance of the concept of Central and Eastern Europe is one of the most fascinating results of the collapse of the Soviet empire. The course will provide an introduction into the study of this region its cultures, histories, and societies from the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire to the enlargement of the European Union. Students are encouraged to delve deeper into particular countries, disciplines, and sub-regions, such as Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans, through an individual research paper and class presentations. Prerequisite: This course is one of two required core courses for the Russian and East European Studies (REES) major.	REES010401		All Readings and Lectures in English		https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML010401
COML 013-401	Intro Modrn S.Asia Lit: New Literatures of Resistance and Representations	Gregory Goulding	BENN 419	MW 01:45 PM-03:15 PM	This course will provide a wide-ranging introduction to the literatures of South Asia from roughly 1500 to the present, as well as an exploration of their histories and impact on South Asian society today. How are literary movements and individual works - along with the attitudes towards religion, society, and culture associated with them - still influential in literature, film, and popular culture? How have writers across time and language engaged with questions of caste, gender, and identity? We will read from the rich archive of South Asian writing in translation - from languages that include Braj, Urdu, Bangla, and Tamil - to consider how these literatures depict their own society while continuing to resonate across time and space. Topics of dicussion will include the Bhakti poetries of personal devotion, the literature of Dalits - formerly referred to as the Untouchables - and the ways in which literature addresses contemporary political and social problems. Students will leave this course with a sense of the contours of the literatures of South Asia as well as ways of exploring the role of these literatures in the larger world. No prior knowledge of South Asia is required; this course fulfills the cross-cultural analysis requirement.	SAST007401	Arts & Letters Sector Cross Cultural Analysis			https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML013401
COML 056-401	Seeing/Hearing Globally	Carol Ann Muller	LERN 102	F 01:45 PM-04:45 PM	Students are provided a general introduction to a country's history, politics, environment, and performance through a range of resources: scholarly literature, film, music, and online resources; with particular focus on sites, communities, and events included in the 12 day intensive travel to that country (either Fall semester Intro with winter break travel; or spring semester Intro with late spring intensive travel). Students are given guidelines for writing about and representing live performances and experiences of exhibits and heritage sites for journaling and are expected to produce a written/creative project at the end of the travel. The itinerary and specific course content will vary according to the travel site and focus of each class.	AFRC056401, ANTH056401, MUSC056401	Arts & Letters Sector Cross Cultural Analysis	Permission Needed From Instructor Penn Global Seminar
COML 059-401	Modernisms & Modernities: Kafka, Joyce & Beckett	Jean-Michel Rabate	BENN 138	TR 12:00 PM-01:30 PM	Please see English Department for description.	ENGL059401				https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML059401
COML 065-401	20th-Century Novel: Love/Age of Cynicism	Jean-Michel Rabate	BENN 244	TR 01:45 PM-03:15 PM	What do we talk about when we talk about love? Is love just empty talk, or the stuff of dreams offered by novels, poems and plays? Can literature and film, if they contribute to the emotional swindle of popular romance, address our anxieties about the untruth of love? Raymond Carver’s title (“What we talk about when we talk about love”) sends us back to disabused times, a moment when love seemed debased, reduced to weak sublimation or mindless satisfaction. The Freudian thesis is that we only love our parents under different disguises, and use the noble word of love only because we must sublimate our murderous impulses, but there is an even longer history of cynical accounts of love. This class will explore the theme of love when it ceases to be taken for granted and has to be understood in a critical perspective. We will tackle the theme with the help of Plato’s Symposium, Freud on the psychology of love, Peter Sloterdijk on ancient and modern cynicism, and Alain Badiou’s In Praise of Love. We will discuss Aristophanes’ plays Lysistrata and Women in Parliament, Chi-rak, Spike Lee’s 2015 version of Lysistrata, Edith Wharton’s critique of marriage in Custom of the Country, Carver’s stories, Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying, Beckett’s “First Love” and Play, and the “comedy of remarriage” The Awful Truth. There will be eight film journals: Blue Valentine; Monsieur Verdoux; Chi-rak; Shortcuts; The Age of Innocence; L’Atalante; Journey to Italy; Jules and Jim. Bibliography: Plato’s Symposium (on line) Freud Psychology of Love (Penguin, 2006, or texts available via PEP Web). Selections from Peter Sloterdijk’s Critique of Cynical Reason (online). Aristophanes Lysistrata and Assembly of Women (on line). Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country (on line). Alain Badiou, In Praise of Love (online). Samuel Beckett, “First Love” (on line) and Play. Raymond Carver, Collected Stories (Library of America) Erica Jong, Fear of Flying. Requirements: eight film journals (2 pages each, due before the assigned film is discussed) and one final paper (8 pages).	ENGL065401				https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML065401
COML 073-401	"The Arts of Rebellion": 21st Century Creative/Critical Latinx Production	Ricardo Bracho	PCPE 200	TR 03:30 PM-05:00 PM	This course examines intersections of artistic production and radical politics in the 20th and 21st centuries. It addresses art from across a wide array of media: street art, film, theater, poetry, performance art, fiction, graphic arts, digital media, and urban interventions. We will examine artistic movements and artists from across the Americas, including revolutionary Latin American theater, film, and literature; the art of Black Liberation in the U.S.; the Chicano art movement and its queer dissidents; street performance and protest produced in the context of dictatorship; anticolonial performance art and alternative reality gaming; and activist art, political theater, and cinema from the 21st century. Through its focus on the relationship between art and politics, this course also introduces students to foundational concepts related to the relationship between culture and power more broadly.	ENGL073401, CIMS073401, LALS073401, THAR073401, ARTH299401				https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML073401
COML 074-401	Science & Literature	Zachary Meir Loeb	WILL 319	TR 10:15 AM-11:45 AM	This course will explore the emergence of modern science fiction as a genre and the ways it has reflected our evolving conceptions of ourselves and the universe. We will explore sci-fi as not only the future-mythos of a technological civilization, but as a space for cultural, social, and political critique of the modern age. We will discuss such characteristic themes as utopias, the exploration of space and time, biological engineering, robots, aliens, and other worlds, contextualized within the history of science and alongside themes like gender, race, and class. Authors include: H. G. Wells, Le Guin, Herbert, Clarke, Asimov, Okafor, Delany, Chiang, and others.	HSOC110401, ENGL075401, HIST117401, STSC110401	Arts & Letters Sector
COML 082-401	Caribbean Literature		BENN 138	TR 01:45 PM-03:15 PM	Caribbean Literature	ENGL082401, AFRC082401				https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML082401
COML 090-401	Gender,Sexuality & Lit: Writing Women, Part 2	Toni Bowers		TR 05:15 PM-06:45 PM	This course will focus on questions of gender difference and of sexual desire in a range of literary works, paying special attention to works by women and treatments of same-sex desire. More fundamentally, the course will introduce students to questions about the relation between identity and representation. We will attend in particular to intersections between gender, sexuality, race, class, and nation, and will choose from a rich vein of authors: Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, the Brontes, Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Nella Larsen, Radclyffe Hall, Willa Cather, Elizabeth Bishop, Jean Rhys, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Bessie Head, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Cherr�e Moraga, Toni Morrison, Michael Cunningham, Dorothy Allison, Jeanette Winterson, and Leslie Feinberg.	ENGL090401, GSWS090401				https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML090401
COML 099-401	Television and New Media	Rahul Mukherjee	MCNB 150	W 01:45 PM-04:45 PM	This introductory survey course will explore the history of television as both a site of cultural production and a particular technology within an audiovisual technological continuum. Special attention will be paid to practices of representation and how issues of race and gender have been entangled with not only televisual representations but the creation of new technologies and mediums, including the internet and digital and social media. We begin the course with some debates on technological and cultural approaches to media, including arguments about the limitations of describing a particular technology as “new” or “digital.” This course will also address: Should we approach “television” as an industry and content provider or as a technology and set of audience relations? How have television audiences been transformed by algorithmic cultures and streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu? Are algorithms “neutral” components of digital media, or are they also enmeshed in histories of representation and their embedded biases? How have social networks provided more freedom to digital media users and at the same time increased concerns about surveillance?	ENGL078401, ARTH107401, CIMS103401
COML 099-402	Television and New Media	Sasha Dilan Krugman	ANNS 111	TR 03:30 PM-05:00 PM	This introductory survey course will explore the history of television as both a site of cultural production and a particular technology within an audiovisual technological continuum. Special attention will be paid to practices of representation and how issues of race and gender have been entangled with not only televisual representations but the creation of new technologies and mediums, including the internet and digital and social media. We begin the course with some debates on technological and cultural approaches to media, including arguments about the limitations of describing a particular technology as “new” or “digital.” This course will also address: Should we approach “television” as an industry and content provider or as a technology and set of audience relations? How have television audiences been transformed by algorithmic cultures and streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu? Are algorithms “neutral” components of digital media, or are they also enmeshed in histories of representation and their embedded biases? How have social networks provided more freedom to digital media users and at the same time increased concerns about surveillance? Main navigation	ENGL078402, CIMS103402, ARTH107402
COML 100-401	Intro. To Literary Study: Global Novel	Rita Barnard	BENN 231	MW 05:15 PM-06:45 PM	Introduction to Comparative Literature/Introduction to Literary Studies This course has three broad aims: first, it will introduce students to a selection of compelling contemporary narratives; second, it will provide prospective students of literature and film, as well as interested students headed for other majors, with fundamental skills in literary, visual, and cultural analysis; and, third, it will encourage a meditation on the function of literature and culture in our world, where commodities, people, and ideas have been constantly in motion. Questions for discussion will therefore include: the meaning of terms like “globalization,” “translation,” and “world literature”; the transnational reach and circulation of texts; migration and engagement with “others”; violence, trauma, and memory; terrorism and the state; and the ethic of cosmopolitanism. Our collective endeavor will be to think about narrative forms as modes of mediating and engaging with the vast and complex world we inhabit today. In the course of the semester, we will study about eight works of fiction and four films, as well as a selection of pertinent critical essays that will provide the terminology and theoretical framework for our conversations. The following works of fiction are likely to be included (though note that the list might change a bit and possibly be cut): Salman Rushdie, East, West; Ivan Vladislavic, selected stories and The Exploded View; Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears; Junot Diaz, The Short Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Karen Yamashita, Tropic of Orange; Juan Gabriel Vasquez, The Sound of Things Falling; Moshin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist; Aminatta Forna, The Hired Man; and David Mitchell, Ghostwritten. Films: Babel, Dirty Pretty Things, Even the Rain, and Syriana. Written requirements: 7 to 10-page midterm and final papers (topics will be provided). Note that this course will count as one of the core requirements for the Comparative Literature major.	ENGL100401	Arts & Letters Sector			https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML100401
COML 101-401	Introduction To Folklore	Dan Ben-Amos	COHN 392	TR 10:15 AM-11:45 AM	The purpose of the course is to introduce you to the subjects of the discipline of Folklore, their occurrence in social life and the scholarly analysis of their use in culture. As a discipline folklore explores the manifestations of expressive forms in both traditional and moderns societies, in small-scale groups where people interact with each face-to-face, and in large-scale, often industrial societies, in which the themes, symbols, and forms that permeate traditional life, occupy new positions, or occur in different occasions in everyday life. For some of you the distinction between low and high culture, or artistic and popular art will be helpful in placing folklore forms in modern societies. For others, these distinction will not be helpful. In traditional societies, and within social groups that define themselves ethnically, professionally, or culturally, within modern heterogeneous societies, and traditional societies in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia, folklore plays a more prominent role in society, than it appears to plan in literati cultures on the same continents. Consequently the study of folklore and the analysis of its forms are appropriate in traditional as well as modern societies and any society that is in a transitional phase.	FOLK101401, RELS108401, NELC181401	Cross Cultural Analysis	Humanities & Social Science Sector
COML 106-401	Ancient Drama	Scheherazade Jehan Khan	PCPE 225	TR 12:00 PM-01:30 PM	This course will introduce students to some of the greatest works of dramatic literature in the western canon. We will consider the social, political, religious and artistic functions of drama in ancient Greece and Rome, and discuss both differences and similarities between ancient drama and modern art forms. The course will also pursue some broader goals: to improve students skills as readers and scholarly critics of literature, both ancient and modern; to observe the implications of form for meaning, in considering, especially, the differences between dramatic and non-dramatic kinds of cultural production: to help students understand the relationship of ancient Greek and Roman culture to the modern world; and to encourage thought about some big issues, in life as well as in literature: death, heroism, society, action and meaning.	CLST107401	Arts & Letters Sector
COML 107-401	Topics: Freshman Seminar: Italian Fashion	Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin	LERN 102	MW 03:30 PM-05:00 PM	This course will adopt fashion, which theorists and scholars consider a system of signification and a codified language, as a critical lens to observe important events and movements in Italian history and culture. Specifically, the course will explore Italian society’s economic, social, and political transformations from the Renaissance to the present through the representation of clothes and accessories as they appear in literary texts, paintings, and films. Students will focus on specific topics—such as the role played by clothing in constructing social and gender identity, communicating political and cultural messages during the Renaissance and Fascism, and transforming the natural anatomy of human bodies. At the end of the course, students will learn to look critically at fashion’s socio-cultural and political meanings and acquire a basic knowledge of the evolution and changes of Italian fashion and its influence on the formation of Italy and Italians. Students will discuss works by Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnolo Bronzino, Baldassare Castiglione, Carlo Collodi, Elena Ferrante, Veronica Franco, Rosa Genoni, Agostino Lampugnani, Paola Masino, Alberto Moravia, Matilde Serao, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Paolo Sorrentino, and Cesare Vecellio among others. The course will be taught in English; material and readings will be in English.	CIMS014401, ITAL100401	Cross Cultural Analysis	Freshman Seminar All Readings and Lectures in English		https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML107401
COML 108-401	Greek & Roman Mythology	Peter T. Struck	STIT B6	MW 10:15 AM-11:15 AM	Myths are traditional stories that have endured many years. Some of them have to do with events of great importance, such as the founding of a nation. Others tell the stories of great heroes and heroines and their exploits and courage in the face of adversity. Still others are simple tales about otherwise unremarkable people who get into trouble or do some great deed. What are we to make of all these tales, and why do people seem to like to hear them? This course will focus on the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as a few contemporary American ones, as a way of exploring the nature of myth and the function it plays for individuals, societies, and nations. We will also pay some attention to the way the Greeks and Romans themselves understood their own myths. Are myths subtle codes that contain some universal truth? Are they a window on the deep recesses of a particular culture? Are they entertaining stories that people like to tell over and over? Are they a set of blinders that all of us wear, though we do not realize it? We investigate these questions through a variety of topics creation of the universe between gods and mortals, religion and family, sex, love, madness, and death.	CLST100401	Arts & Letters Sector Cross Cultural Analysis	Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. Registration also required for Recitation (see below)
COML 108-402	Greek & Roman Mythology	Massimo De Sanctis Mangelli	COHN 204	R 10:15 AM-11:15 AM	Myths are traditional stories that have endured many years. Some of them have to do with events of great importance, such as the founding of a nation. Others tell the stories of great heroes and heroines and their exploits and courage in the face of adversity. Still others are simple tales about otherwise unremarkable people who get into trouble or do some great deed. What are we to make of all these tales, and why do people seem to like to hear them? This course will focus on the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as a few contemporary American ones, as a way of exploring the nature of myth and the function it plays for individuals, societies, and nations. We will also pay some attention to the way the Greeks and Romans themselves understood their own myths. Are myths subtle codes that contain some universal truth? Are they a window on the deep recesses of a particular culture? Are they entertaining stories that people like to tell over and over? Are they a set of blinders that all of us wear, though we do not realize it? We investigate these questions through a variety of topics creation of the universe between gods and mortals, religion and family, sex, love, madness, and death.	CLST100402		Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
COML 108-403	Greek & Roman Mythology			CANCELED	Myths are traditional stories that have endured many years. Some of them have to do with events of great importance, such as the founding of a nation. Others tell the stories of great heroes and heroines and their exploits and courage in the face of adversity. Still others are simple tales about otherwise unremarkable people who get into trouble or do some great deed. What are we to make of all these tales, and why do people seem to like to hear them? This course will focus on the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as a few contemporary American ones, as a way of exploring the nature of myth and the function it plays for individuals, societies, and nations. We will also pay some attention to the way the Greeks and Romans themselves understood their own myths. Are myths subtle codes that contain some universal truth? Are they a window on the deep recesses of a particular culture? Are they entertaining stories that people like to tell over and over? Are they a set of blinders that all of us wear, though we do not realize it? We investigate these questions through a variety of topics creation of the universe between gods and mortals, religion and family, sex, love, madness, and death.	CLST100403		Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
COML 108-404	Greek & Roman Mythology	Michael Patrick Russo	MEYH B5	R 12:00 PM-01:00 PM	Myths are traditional stories that have endured many years. Some of them have to do with events of great importance, such as the founding of a nation. Others tell the stories of great heroes and heroines and their exploits and courage in the face of adversity. Still others are simple tales about otherwise unremarkable people who get into trouble or do some great deed. What are we to make of all these tales, and why do people seem to like to hear them? This course will focus on the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as a few contemporary American ones, as a way of exploring the nature of myth and the function it plays for individuals, societies, and nations. We will also pay some attention to the way the Greeks and Romans themselves understood their own myths. Are myths subtle codes that contain some universal truth? Are they a window on the deep recesses of a particular culture? Are they entertaining stories that people like to tell over and over? Are they a set of blinders that all of us wear, though we do not realize it? We investigate these questions through a variety of topics creation of the universe between gods and mortals, religion and family, sex, love, madness, and death.	CLST100404		Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
COML 108-405	Greek & Roman Mythology			CANCELED	Myths are traditional stories that have endured many years. Some of them have to do with events of great importance, such as the founding of a nation. Others tell the stories of great heroes and heroines and their exploits and courage in the face of adversity. Still others are simple tales about otherwise unremarkable people who get into trouble or do some great deed. What are we to make of all these tales, and why do people seem to like to hear them? This course will focus on the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as a few contemporary American ones, as a way of exploring the nature of myth and the function it plays for individuals, societies, and nations. We will also pay some attention to the way the Greeks and Romans themselves understood their own myths. Are myths subtle codes that contain some universal truth? Are they a window on the deep recesses of a particular culture? Are they entertaining stories that people like to tell over and over? Are they a set of blinders that all of us wear, though we do not realize it? We investigate these questions through a variety of topics creation of the universe between gods and mortals, religion and family, sex, love, madness, and death.	CLST100405		Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
COML 108-406	Greek & Roman Mythology	Michael Patrick Russo	COHN 203	R 01:45 PM-02:45 PM	Myths are traditional stories that have endured many years. Some of them have to do with events of great importance, such as the founding of a nation. Others tell the stories of great heroes and heroines and their exploits and courage in the face of adversity. Still others are simple tales about otherwise unremarkable people who get into trouble or do some great deed. What are we to make of all these tales, and why do people seem to like to hear them? This course will focus on the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as a few contemporary American ones, as a way of exploring the nature of myth and the function it plays for individuals, societies, and nations. We will also pay some attention to the way the Greeks and Romans themselves understood their own myths. Are myths subtle codes that contain some universal truth? Are they a window on the deep recesses of a particular culture? Are they entertaining stories that people like to tell over and over? Are they a set of blinders that all of us wear, though we do not realize it? We investigate these questions through a variety of topics creation of the universe between gods and mortals, religion and family, sex, love, madness, and death.	CLST100406		Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
COML 108-407	Greek & Roman Mythology	Massimo De Sanctis Mangelli	COHN 203	F 10:15 AM-11:15 AM	Myths are traditional stories that have endured many years. Some of them have to do with events of great importance, such as the founding of a nation. Others tell the stories of great heroes and heroines and their exploits and courage in the face of adversity. Still others are simple tales about otherwise unremarkable people who get into trouble or do some great deed. What are we to make of all these tales, and why do people seem to like to hear them? This course will focus on the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as a few contemporary American ones, as a way of exploring the nature of myth and the function it plays for individuals, societies, and nations. We will also pay some attention to the way the Greeks and Romans themselves understood their own myths. Are myths subtle codes that contain some universal truth? Are they a window on the deep recesses of a particular culture? Are they entertaining stories that people like to tell over and over? Are they a set of blinders that all of us wear, though we do not realize it? We investigate these questions through a variety of topics creation of the universe between gods and mortals, religion and family, sex, love, madness, and death.	CLST100407		Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
COML 108-408	Greek & Roman Mythology	Jordan Maeve Carrick	COHN 204	F 12:00 PM-01:00 PM	Myths are traditional stories that have endured many years. Some of them have to do with events of great importance, such as the founding of a nation. Others tell the stories of great heroes and heroines and their exploits and courage in the face of adversity. Still others are simple tales about otherwise unremarkable people who get into trouble or do some great deed. What are we to make of all these tales, and why do people seem to like to hear them? This course will focus on the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as a few contemporary American ones, as a way of exploring the nature of myth and the function it plays for individuals, societies, and nations. We will also pay some attention to the way the Greeks and Romans themselves understood their own myths. Are myths subtle codes that contain some universal truth? Are they a window on the deep recesses of a particular culture? Are they entertaining stories that people like to tell over and over? Are they a set of blinders that all of us wear, though we do not realize it? We investigate these questions through a variety of topics creation of the universe between gods and mortals, religion and family, sex, love, madness, and death.	CLST100408		Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
COML 108-409	Greek & Roman Mythology	Emma Katherine Dyson	WILL 5	F 12:00 PM-01:00 PM	Myths are traditional stories that have endured many years. Some of them have to do with events of great importance, such as the founding of a nation. Others tell the stories of great heroes and heroines and their exploits and courage in the face of adversity. Still others are simple tales about otherwise unremarkable people who get into trouble or do some great deed. What are we to make of all these tales, and why do people seem to like to hear them? This course will focus on the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as a few contemporary American ones, as a way of exploring the nature of myth and the function it plays for individuals, societies, and nations. We will also pay some attention to the way the Greeks and Romans themselves understood their own myths. Are myths subtle codes that contain some universal truth? Are they a window on the deep recesses of a particular culture? Are they entertaining stories that people like to tell over and over? Are they a set of blinders that all of us wear, though we do not realize it? We investigate these questions through a variety of topics creation of the universe between gods and mortals, religion and family, sex, love, madness, and death.	CLST100409		Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
COML 108-410	Greek & Roman Mythology	Jordan Maeve Carrick	WILL 215	F 01:45 PM-02:45 PM	Myths are traditional stories that have endured many years. Some of them have to do with events of great importance, such as the founding of a nation. Others tell the stories of great heroes and heroines and their exploits and courage in the face of adversity. Still others are simple tales about otherwise unremarkable people who get into trouble or do some great deed. What are we to make of all these tales, and why do people seem to like to hear them? This course will focus on the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as a few contemporary American ones, as a way of exploring the nature of myth and the function it plays for individuals, societies, and nations. We will also pay some attention to the way the Greeks and Romans themselves understood their own myths. Are myths subtle codes that contain some universal truth? Are they a window on the deep recesses of a particular culture? Are they entertaining stories that people like to tell over and over? Are they a set of blinders that all of us wear, though we do not realize it? We investigate these questions through a variety of topics creation of the universe between gods and mortals, religion and family, sex, love, madness, and death.	CLST100410		Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
COML 108-411	Greek & Roman Mythology	Emma Katherine Dyson	WILL 23	F 03:30 PM-04:30 PM	Myths are traditional stories that have endured many years. Some of them have to do with events of great importance, such as the founding of a nation. Others tell the stories of great heroes and heroines and their exploits and courage in the face of adversity. Still others are simple tales about otherwise unremarkable people who get into trouble or do some great deed. What are we to make of all these tales, and why do people seem to like to hear them? This course will focus on the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as a few contemporary American ones, as a way of exploring the nature of myth and the function it plays for individuals, societies, and nations. We will also pay some attention to the way the Greeks and Romans themselves understood their own myths. Are myths subtle codes that contain some universal truth? Are they a window on the deep recesses of a particular culture? Are they entertaining stories that people like to tell over and over? Are they a set of blinders that all of us wear, though we do not realize it? We investigate these questions through a variety of topics creation of the universe between gods and mortals, religion and family, sex, love, madness, and death.	CLST100411		Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
COML 121-401	The Translation of Poetry/The Poetry of Translation	Taije Jalaya Silverman	BENN 139	TR 10:15 AM-11:45 AM	In this class we will study and translate some of the major figures in 20th century poetry, including Rainer Maria Rilke, Claire Malroux, Pablo Neruda, Cesare Pavese, Anna Akhmatova, and Bei Dao. While the curriculum will be tailored to the interests and linguistic backgrounds of the students who enroll, all those curious about world poetry and the formidable, irresistible act of translation are welcome. Students should have at least an intermediate knowledge of a language other than English. We will study mulitple translations of seminal poems, render our own versions in response, and have the additional opportunity to work directly from the original. Students may also work in pairs, or groups. A portion of the course will be set up as a creative writing workshop in which to examine the overall effect of each others' translations so that first drafts can become sucessful revisions. While class discussions will explore the contexts and particularity of (among others) Urdu, Italian, French, and Polish poetry, they might ultimately reveal how notions of national literature have radically shifted in recent years to more polyglottic and globally textured forms. Through guest speakers, essays on translation theory, and our own ongoing experiments, this course will celebrate the ways in which great poetry underscores the fact that language itself is a translation. In addition to the creative work, assignments will include an oral presentation, informal response papers, and a short final essay.	ENGL120401		Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen.
COML 123-401	World Film Hist To 1945	Ian Fleishman	BENN 401	TR 03:30 PM-05:00 PM	This course surveys the history of world film from cinema’s precursors to 1945. We will develop methods for analyzing film while examining the growth of film as an art, an industry, a technology, and a political instrument. Topics include the emergence of film technology and early film audiences, the rise of narrative film and birth of Hollywood, national film industries and movements, African-American independent film, the emergence of the genre film (the western, film noir, and romantic comedies), ethnographic and documentary film, animated films, censorship, the MPPDA and Hays Code, and the introduction of sound. We will conclude with the transformation of several film industries into propaganda tools during World War II (including the Nazi, Soviet, and US film industries). In addition to contemporary theories that investigate the development of cinema and visual culture during the first half of the 20th century, we will read key texts that contributed to the emergence of film theory. There are no prerequisites. Students are required to attend screenings or watch films on their own. Fulfills Cross Cultural Analysis and Arts and Letters.	CIMS101401, ENGL091401, ARTH108401	Arts & Letters Sector Cross Cultural Analysis			https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML123401
COML 123-601	World Film Hist To 1945	Joseph Michael Coppola	ANNS 111	M 05:15 PM-08:15 PM	This course surveys the history of world film from cinema s precursors to 1945. We will develop methods for analyzing film while examining the growth of film as an art, an industry, a technology, and a political instrument. Topics include the emergence of film technology and early film audiences, the rise of narrative film and birth of Hollywood, national film industries and movements, African-American independent film, the emergence of the genre film (the western, film noir, and romantic comedies), ethnographic and documentary film, animated films, censorship, the MPPDA and Hays Code, and the introduction of sound. We will conclude with the transformation of several film industries into propaganda tools during World War II (including the Nazi, Soviet, and US film industries). In addition to contemporary theories that investigate the development of cinema and visual culture during the first half of the 20th century, we will read key texts that contributed to the emergence of film theory. There are no prerequisites. Students are required to attend screenings or watch films on their own.	CIMS101601, ARTH108601, ENGL091601	Arts & Letters Sector Cross Cultural Analysis
COML 124-401	World Film Hist '45-Pres	Julia Alekseyeva	BENN 401	MW 03:30 PM-05:00 PM	Focusing on movies made after 1945, this course allows students to learn and to sharpen methods, terminologies, and tools needed for the critical analysis of film. Beginning with the cinematic revolution signaled by the Italian Neo-Realism (of Rossellini and De Sica), we will follow the evolution of postwar cinema through the French New Wave (of Godard, Resnais, and Varda), American movies of the 1950s and 1960s (including the New Hollywood cinema of Coppola and Scorsese), and the various other new wave movements of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s (such as the New German Cinema). We will then selectively examine some of the most important films of the last two decades, including those of U.S. independent film movement and movies from Iran, China, and elsewhere in an expanding global cinema culture. There will be precise attention paid to formal and stylistic techniques in editing, mise-en-scene, and sound, as well as to the narrative, non-narrative, and generic organizations of film. At the same time, those formal features will be closely linked to historical and cultural distinctions and changes, ranging from the Paramount Decision of 1948 to the digital convergences that are defining screen culture today. There are no perquisites. Requirements will include readings in film history and film analysis, an analytical essay, a research paper, a final exam, and active participation.	CIMS102401, ENGL092401, ARTH109401	Arts & Letters Sector Cross Cultural Analysis	Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen.
COML 124-402	World Film Hist '45-Pres	Filippo Trentin	BENN 401	TR 12:00 PM-01:30 PM	Focusing on movies made after 1945, this course allows students to learn and to sharpen methods, terminologies, and tools needed for the critical analysis of film. Beginning with the cinematic revolution signaled by the Italian Neo-Realism (of Rossellini and De Sica), we will follow the evolution of postwar cinema through the French New Wave (of Godard, Resnais, and Varda), American movies of the 1950s and 1960s (including the New Hollywood cinema of Coppola and Scorsese), and the various other new wave movements of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s (such as the New German Cinema). We will then selectively examine some of the most important films of the last two decades, including those of U.S. independent film movement and movies from Iran, China, and elsewhere in an expanding global cinema culture. There will be precise attention paid to formal and stylistic techniques in editing, mise-en-scene, and sound, as well as to the narrative, non-narrative, and generic organizations of film. At the same time, those formal features will be closely linked to historical and cultural distinctions and changes, ranging from the Paramount Decision of 1948 to the digital convergences that are defining screen culture today. There are no perquisites. Requirements will include readings in film history and film analysis, an analytical essay, a research paper, a final exam, and active participation.	CIMS102402, ENGL092402, ARTH109402	Arts & Letters Sector Cross Cultural Analysis			https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML124402
COML 125-401	Narrative Across Cultures: Food and Literature	Harry Eli Kashdan	MCNB 395	TR 01:45 PM-03:15 PM	Are we what we eat? What about when, where, and with whom? After beginning with foundational descriptions of food in literature, this course will move through a range of contemporary texts from around the world in a variety of forms and genres. We will explore the ways food is linked with memory and identity and analyze how the experience of eating is translated into written work. In addition to literary and film sources, we will use theoretical readings by scholars from a range of disciplines to contextualize our study of food as a literary object. Sources will include novels (Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman, Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate, Han Kang's The Vegetarian), cookbooks and memoirs (Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor's Vibration Cooking, Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi's Jerusalem), and films (Babette's Feast, The Lunchbox, Tampopo). Students will complete a group cooking project and presentation, short close reading exercises, a mid-term paper, and a final paper.	ENGL103401, SAST124401, THAR105401, NELC180401	Arts & Letters Sector Cross Cultural Analysis			https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML125401
COML 125-402	Narrative Across Cultures: World Autobiography	Max C Cavitch		CANCELED	This course will introduce you to the great variety of narrative forms and themes in autobiographical literature from a wide range of cultural and national traditions. As a course on a major narrative genre, it will give you a grounding in the fundamentals of genre- and narrative-theory and criticism. And, as a course on world literature, it will introduce you to the principles and theories of comparativism, as well as contemporary debates regarding the regional, the national, and the global in literary studies. Our focus will be on “modern” autobiography, from the late 18th century to the present day, with particular emphasis on 20th- and 21st-century autobiographical writing, from many different parts of the world. All works—many of them in translation—will be read in English, which means we’ll be examining the role of the English language in shaping different conceptions of “world literature.” Representative authors and locales include: Alison Bechdel (U.S.), Nirad Chaudhuri (India), Mohamed Choukri (Morocco), J. M. Coetzee (South Africa), Alicia Elliott (Canada/Six Nations), Annie Ernaux (France), Anne Frank (Germany/Netherlands), Kiese Laymon (U.S.), Audre Lorde (U.S.), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (France), Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), Greta Thunberg (Sweden), and William Wordsworth (U.K.). Course requirements will vary according to class-size but will likely involve a combination of short essays, quizzes, and in-class exercises. (No mid-term or final exams.)	ENGL103402	Arts & Letters Sector			https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML125402
COML 131-401	Portraits of Old Russia: Myth, Icon, Chronicle	Julia Verkholantsev	MEYH B2	MW 01:45 PM-03:15 PM	This course covers eight centuries of Russias cultural, political, and social history, from its origins through the eighteenth century, a period which laid the foundation for the Russian Empire. Each week-long unit is organized around a set of texts (literary text, historical document, image, film) which examine prominent historical and legendary figures as they represent chapters in Russias history. Historical figures under examination include, among others, the Baptizer of Rus, Prince Vladimir; the nation-builder, Prince Alexander Nevsky; the first Russian Tsar, Ivan the Terrible; the first Emperor and Westernizer, Peter the Great; the renowned icon painter Andrei Rublev; the epic hero Ilya Muromets; and the founder of Muscovite monasticism, St. Sergius of Radonezh. Three modern-day nation-states Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus share and dispute the cultural heritage of Old Rus, and their political relationships even today revolve around interpretations of the past. This constructed past has a continuing influence in modern Russia and is keenly referenced, sometimes manipulatively, in contemporary social and political discourse. (Recently, for example, President Putin has justified the annexation of Crimea to Russia by referring to it as the holy site of Prince Vladimirs baptism, from which Russian Christianity ostensibly originates.) The study of pre-modern cultural and political history explains many aspects of modern Russian society, as well as certain political aspirations of its leaders.	HIST045401, REES113401, REES613401	History & Tradition Sector Cross Cultural Analysis	All Readings and Lectures in English		https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML131401
COML 144-401	Belief and Unbelief in Modern Thought	Warren G. Breckman	COLL 314	MW 03:30 PM-05:00 PM	"God is dead," declared Friedrich Nietzsche, "and we have killed him." Nietzche's words came as a climax of a longer history of criticism of, and dissent toward, the religious foundations of European society and politics. The critique of religion had vast implications for the meaning of human life, the nature of the person, and the conception of political and social existence. The course will explore the intensifying debate over religion in the intellectual history of Europe, reaching from the Renaissance, through the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, to the twentieth century. Rousseau, Voltaire, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. These thinkers allow us to trace the varieties of irreligious experience that have emerged in modern European thought and their implications for both historical and philosophical understanding. Rather than drawing a straight line from belief to non-belief, however, we will also consider whether religion lingers even in secular thought and culture.	HIST144401				https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML144401
COML 156-401	Queer German Cinema	Ian Fleishman	EDUC 203	TR 12:00 PM-01:30 PM	Taught in English. This course offers an introduction into the history of German-language cinema with an emphasis on depictions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer themes. The course provides a chronological survey of Queer German Cinema from its beginnings in the Weimar Republic to its most recent and current representatives, accompanied throughout by a discussion of the cultural-political history of gay rights in the German-speaking world. Over the course of the semester, students will learn not only cinematic history but how to write about and close-read film. No knowledge of German or previous knowledge required.	GRMN156401, CIMS156401, GSWS156401				https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML156401
COML 191-401	World Literature	Akhil Puthiyadath Veetil	WILL 301	TR 10:15 AM-11:45 AM	How do we think 'the world' as such? Globalizing economic paradigms encourage one model that, while it connects distant regions with the ease of a finger-tap, also homogenizes the world, manufacturing patterns of sameness behind simulations of diversity. Our current world-political situation encourages another model, in which fundamental differences are held to warrant the consolidation of borders between Us and Them, "our world" and "theirs." This course begins with the proposal that there are other ways to encounter the world, that are politically compelling, ethically important, and personally enriching--and that the study of literature can help tease out these new paths. Through the idea of World Literature, this course introduces students to the appreciation and critical analysis of literary texts, with the aim of navigating calls for universality or particularity (and perhaps both) in fiction and film. "World literature" here refers not merely to the usual definition of "books written in places other than the US and Europe, "but any form of cultural production that explores and pushes at the limits of a particular world, that steps between and beyond worlds, or that heralds the coming of new worlds still within us, waiting to be born. And though, as we read and discuss our texts, we will glide about in space and time from the inner landscape of a private mind to the reaches of the farthest galaxies, knowledge of languages other than English will not be required, and neither will any prior familiary with the literary humanities. In the company of drunken kings, botanical witches, ambisexual alien lifeforms, and storytellers who've lost their voice, we will reflect on, and collectively navigate, our encounters with the faraway and the familiar--and thus train to think through the challenges of concepts such as translation, narrative, and ideology. Texts include Kazuo Ishiguro, Ursula K. LeGuin, Salman Rushdie, Werner Herzog, Jamaica Kincaid, Russell Hoban, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Arundhathi Roy, and Abbas Kiarostami.	ENGL277401, CLST191401				https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML191401
COML 201-401	Topics Film History: Film Festivals	Meta Mazaj	BENN 201	TR 12:00 PM-01:30 PM	This course is an exploration of multiple forces that explain the growth, global spread and institutionalization of international film festivals. The global boom in film industry has resulted in an incredible proliferation of film festivals taking place all around the world, and festivals have become one of the biggest growth industries. A dizzying convergence site of cinephilia, media spectacle, business agendas and geopolitical purposes, film festivals offer a fruitful ground on which to investigate the contemporary global cinema network. Film festivals will be approached as a site where numerous lines of the world cinema map come together, from culture and commerce, experimentation and entertainment, political interests and global business patterns. To analyze the network of film festivals, we will address a wide range of issues, including historical and geopolitical forces that shape the development of festivals, festivals as an alternative marketplace, festivals as a media event, programming and agenda setting, prizes, cinephilia, and city marketing. Individual case studies of international film festivals—Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary, Toronto, Sundance among others—will enable us to address all these diverse issues but also to establish a theoretical framework with which to approach the study of film festival. For students planning to attend the Penn-in-Cannes program, this course provides an excellent foundation that will prepare you for the on-site experience of the King of all festivals.	CIMS201401, ARTH391401, ENGL291401
COML 206-401	Italian Hist On Screen	Filippo Trentin	BENN 231	TR 03:30 PM-05:00 PM	How has our image of Italy arrived to us? Where does the story begin and who has recounted, rewritten, and rearranged it over the centuries? In this course, we will study Italy's rich and complex past and present. We will carefully read literary and historical texts and thoughtfully watch films in order to attain an understanding of Italy that is as varied and multifacted as the country itself. Group work, discussions and readings will allow us to examine the problems and trends in the political, cultural and social history from ancient Rome to today. We will focus on: the Roman Empire, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Unification, Turn of the Century, Fascist era, World War II, post-war and contemporary Italy.	CIMS206401, ITAL204401	Arts & Letters Sector Cross Cultural Analysis	All Readings and Lectures in English		https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML206401
COML 212-401	Mod Mideast Lit in Trans	Nili R Gold	WILL 214	MW 05:15 PM-06:45 PM	The Middle East boasts a rich tapestry of cultures that have developed a vibrant body of modern literature that is often overlooked in media coverage of the region. While each of the modern literary traditions that will be surveyed in this introductory course-Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish-will be analyzed with an apprreciation of the cultural context unique to each body of literature, this course will also attempt to bridge these diverse traditions by analyzing common themes-such as modernity, social values, the individual and national identity-as reflected in the genres of postry, the novel and the short story. This course is in seminar format to encourage lively discussion and is team-taught by four professors whose expertise in modern Middle Eastern literature serves to create a deeper understanding and aesthetic appreciation of each literary trandition. In addition to honing students' literary analysis skills, the course will enable students to become more adept at discussing the social and political forces that are reflected in Middle Eastern literature, explore important themes and actively engage in reading new Middle Eastern works on their own in translation. All readings are in English.	NELC201401	Arts & Letters Sector			https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML212401
COML 219-401	Fren Lit: Indiv/Society	Gerald J Prince	WILL 202	MW 10:15 AM-11:45 AM	This basic course in literature provides an overview of French literature and acquaints students with major literary trends through the study of representative works from each period. Special emphasis is placed on close reading of texts in order to familiarize students with major authors and their characteristics and with methods of interpretation. Students are expected to take an active part in class discussion in French. French 232 has as its theme the Individual and Society. Prerequisite: Two 200-level courses taken at Penn or equivalent.	FREN232401	Arts & Letters Sector Cross Cultural Analysis			https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML219401
COML 219-402	Fren Lit: Indiv/Society	Jacqueline Dougherty	WILL 205	MW 01:45 PM-03:15 PM	This basic course in literature provides an overview of French literature and acquaints students with major literary trends through the study of representative works from each period. Special emphasis is placed on close reading of texts in order to familiarize students with major authors and their characteristics and with methods of interpretation. Students are expected to take an active part in class discussion in French. French 232 has as its theme the Individual and Society. Prerequisite: Two 200-level courses taken at Penn or equivalent.	FREN232402	Arts & Letters Sector Cross Cultural Analysis			https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML219402
COML 219-403	Fren Lit: Indiv/Society	Scott M Francis	WILL 205	TR 12:00 PM-01:30 PM	This basic course in literature provides an overview of French literature and acquaints students with major literary trends through the study of representative works from each period. Special emphasis is placed on close reading of texts in order to familiarize students with major authors and their characteristics and with methods of interpretation. Students are expected to take an active part in class discussion in French. French 232 has as its theme the Individual and Society. Prerequisite: Two 200-level courses taken at Penn or equivalent.	FREN232403	Arts & Letters Sector Cross Cultural Analysis			https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML219403
COML 220-401	Russia and the West	Siarhei Biareishyk	WILL 421	TR 10:15 AM-11:45 AM	This course will explore the representations of the West in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Russian literature and philosophy. We will consider the Russian visions of various events and aspects of Western political and social life Revolutions, educational system, public executions, resorts, etc. within the context of Russian intellectual history. We will examine how images of the West reflect Russia's own cultural concerns, anticipations, and biases, as well as aesthetic preoccupations and interests of Russian writers. The discussion will include literary works by Karamzin, Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Leskov, and Tolstoy, as well as non-fictional documents, such as travelers' letters, diaries, and historiosophical treatises of Russian Freemasons, Romantic and Positivist thinkers, and Russian social philosophers of the late Nineteenth century. A basic knowledge of nineteenth-century European history is desirable. The class will consist of lectures, discussion, short writing assignments, and two in-class tests.	REES220401, REES620401, HIST220401		Humanities & Social Science Sector		https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML220401
COML 229-401	National Antiquities	Julia Verkholantsev	WILL 214	MW 03:30 PM-05:00 PM	Human societies have always wanted to know about their origins, the reasons for their customs, the foundations of their social institutions and religious beliefs, and the justification of their power structures. They have conceived of creation myths and of origins stories for their communities in order to position themselves within the past and present of the natural and human worlds. The newly Christianized kingdoms of Medieval Europe faced the challenge of securing a place in the new vision of universal Providential history, and they inscribed their own histories into the narratives they knew from the authoritative sources of the time - biblical genealogies and heroic stories inherited from the poets of classical antiquity. The deeds and virtues of saintly kings and church hierarchs provided a continuity of historical narrative on the sacred map of time and space. In the 19th century, while interest in medieval antiquity as a source of inspiration for political and cultural renewal brought about a critical study of evidence, it also effected reinterpretation and repurposing of this evidence vis-a-vis a new political concept - that of a nation. This seminar will focus on central, eastern and southeast European nations and explore three categories of "national antiquities" that have been prominent in the workings of their modern nationalisms: (1) stories of ethnogenesis (so-called, origo gentis) that narrate and explain the beginnings and genealogy of peoples and states, as they are recorded in medieval and early modern chronicles, (2) narratives about holy people, who are seen as national patron-saints, and (3) material objects of sacred significance (manuscripts, religious ceremony objects, crowns, icons) that act as symbols of political, cultural and national identities. Our approach will be two-fold: On the one hand, we will read medieval sources and ask the question of what they tell us about the mindset of the authors and societies that created them. We will think about how the knowledge of the past helped medieval societies legitimize the present and provide a model for the future. On the other hand, we will observe how medieval narratives and artifacts have been interpreted in modern times and how they became repurposed - first, during the "Romantic" stage of national awakening, then in the post-imperial era of independent nation-states, and, finally, in the post-Soviet context of reimagined Europe. We will observe how the study of nationalistic mentality enhances our understanding of how the past is represented and repurposed in scholarship and politics.	HIST263401, REES229401		Benjamin Franklin Seminars		https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML229401
COML 236-401	Napoleonic Era & Tolstoy	Peter I. Holquist	BENN 401	TR 01:45 PM-03:15 PM	In this course we will read what many consider to be the greatest book in world literature. This work, Tolstoy's War and Peace, is devoted to one of the most momentous periods in world history, the Napoleonic Era (1789-1815). We will study both the novel and the era of the Napoleonic Wars: the military campaigns of Napoleon and his opponents, the grand strategies of the age, political intrigues and diplomatic betrayals, the ideologies and human dramas, the relationship between art and history. How does literature help us to understand this era? How does history help us to understand this great novel?	HIST333401, REES240401	Cross Cultural Analysis			https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML236401
COML 253-401	Freud	Liliane Weissberg	ARCH 208	MW 01:45 PM-03:15 PM	No other person of the twentieth century has probably influenced scientific thought, humanistic scholarship, medical therapy, and popular culture as much as Sigmund Freud. This seminar will study his work, its cultural background, and its impact on us today. In the first part of the course, we will learn about Freud's life and the Viennese culture of his time. We will then move to a discussion of seminal texts, such as excerpts from his Interpretation of Dreams, case studies, as well as essays on psychoanalytic practice, human development, definitions of gender and sex, neuroses, and culture in general. In the final part of the course, we will discuss the impact of Freud's work. Guest lectureres from the medical field, history of science, psychology, and the humnities will offer insights into the reception of Freud's work, and its consequences for various fields of study and therapy.	GRMN253401, HIST253401, GSWS252401		Humanities & Social Science Sector Registration also required for Recitation (see below)		https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML253401
COML 253-402	Freud: the Invention of Psychoanalysis		WILL 304	F 10:15 AM-11:15 AM	No other person of the twentieth century has probably influenced scientific thought, humanistic scholarship, medical therapy, and popular culture as much as Sigmund Freud. This seminar will study his work, its cultural background, and its impact on us today. In the first part of the course, we will learn about Freud's life and the Viennese culture of his time. We will then move to a discussion of seminal texts, such as excerpts from his Interpretation of Dreams, case studies, as well as essays on psychoanalytic practice, human development, definitions of gender and sex, neuroses, and culture in general. In the final part of the course, we will discuss the impact of Freud's work. Guest lectureres from the medical field, history of science, psychology, and the humnities will offer insights into the reception of Freud's work, and its consequences for various fields of study and therapy.	GRMN253402, HIST253402, GSWS252402		Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
COML 253-403	Freud: the Invention of Psychoanalysis	Oded Even Or	WILL 216	F 10:15 AM-11:15 AM	No other person of the twentieth century has probably influenced scientific thought, humanistic scholarship, medical therapy, and popular culture as much as Sigmund Freud. This seminar will study his work, its cultural background, and its impact on us today. In the first part of the course, we will learn about Freud's life and the Viennese culture of his time. We will then move to a discussion of seminal texts, such as excerpts from his Interpretation of Dreams, case studies, as well as essays on psychoanalytic practice, human development, definitions of gender and sex, neuroses, and culture in general. In the final part of the course, we will discuss the impact of Freud's work. Guest lectureres from the medical field, history of science, psychology, and the humnities will offer insights into the reception of Freud's work, and its consequences for various fields of study and therapy.	GRMN253403, HIST253403, GSWS252403		Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
COML 253-404	Freud: the Invention of Psychoanalysis		WILL 23	F 12:00 PM-01:00 PM	No other person of the twentieth century has probably influenced scientific thought, humanistic scholarship, medical therapy, and popular culture as much as Sigmund Freud. This seminar will study his work, its cultural background, and its impact on us today. In the first part of the course, we will learn about Freud's life and the Viennese culture of his time. We will then move to a discussion of seminal texts, such as excerpts from his Interpretation of Dreams, case studies, as well as essays on psychoanalytic practice, human development, definitions of gender and sex, neuroses, and culture in general. In the final part of the course, we will discuss the impact of Freud's work. Guest lectureres from the medical field, history of science, psychology, and the humnities will offer insights into the reception of Freud's work, and its consequences for various fields of study and therapy.	HIST253404, GRMN253404, GSWS252404		Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
COML 253-405	Freud: the Invention of Psychoanalysis	Oded Even Or	WILL 23	F 01:45 PM-02:45 PM	No other person of the twentieth century has probably influenced scientific thought, humanistic scholarship, medical therapy, and popular culture as much as Sigmund Freud. This seminar will study his work, its cultural background, and its impact on us today. In the first part of the course, we will learn about Freud's life and the Viennese culture of his time. We will then move to a discussion of seminal texts, such as excerpts from his Interpretation of Dreams, case studies, as well as essays on psychoanalytic practice, human development, definitions of gender and sex, neuroses, and culture in general. In the final part of the course, we will discuss the impact of Freud's work. Guest lectureres from the medical field, history of science, psychology, and the humnities will offer insights into the reception of Freud's work, and its consequences for various fields of study and therapy.	HIST253405, GRMN253405, GSWS252405		Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
COML 256-401	Contempor Fict/Film-Jpan	Ayako Kano	WILL 218	TR 10:15 AM-11:45 AM	This course will explore fiction and film in contemporary Japan, from 1945 to the present. Topics will include literary and cinematic representation of Japan s war experience and post-war reconstruction, negotiation with Japanese classics, confrontation with the state, and changing ideas of gender and sexuality. We will explore these and other questions by analyzing texts of various genres, including film and film scripts, novels, short stories, manga, and academic essays. Class sessions will combine lectures, discussion, audio-visual materials, and creative as well as analytical writing exercises. The course is taught in English, although Japanese materials will be made available upon request. No prior coursework in Japanese literature, culture, or film is required or expected; additional secondary materials will be available for students taking the course at the 600 level. Writers and film directors examined may include: Kawabata Yasunari, Hayashi Fumiko, Abe Kobo, Mishima Yukio, Oe Kenzaburo, Yoshimoto Banana, Ozu Yasujiro, Naruse Mikio, Kurosawa Akira, Imamura Shohei, Koreeda Hirokazu, and Beat Takeshi.	CIMS151401, GSWS257401, EALC151401, EALC551401	Arts & Letters Sector Cross Cultural Analysis			https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML256401
COML 257-401	Medieval Jewish Writings	Talya Fishman	WILL 723	M 01:45 PM-04:45 PM	Through close readings of primary sources, students will explore products of Jewish culture written in both Christian and Muslim lands between the 10th and 16th centuries, within their historical and cross-cultural contexts. Works will include selections from poetry, philosophy, Bible exegesis, polemic, ethical wills, historiography, pietism, mysticism and legal writings. Students with appropriate language skills will read Hebrew sources in the original. Graduate students will have additional assignments and meetings.	JWST153401, NELC158401, NELC458401				https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML257401
COML 260-401	Translating Cultures	Kathryn Hellerstein	WILL 214	TR 01:45 PM-03:15 PM	"Languages are not strangers to one another," writes the great critic and translator Walter Benjamin. Yet two people who speak different languages have a difficult time talking to one another, unless they both know a third, common language or can find someone who knows both their languages to translate what they want to say. Without translation, most of us would not be able to read the Bible or Homer, the foundations of Western culture. Americans wouldn't know much about the cultures of Europe, China, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. And people who live in or come from these places would not know much about American culture. Without translation, Americans would not know much about the diversity of cultures within America. The very fabric of our world depend upon translation between people, between cultures, between texts.	GRMN264401, JWST264401	Arts & Letters Sector	Benjamin Franklin Seminars All Readings and Lectures in English		https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML260401
COML 262-401	Tpcs 20th-C American Lit: the Bomb and the Word: Crisis, Containment and Chaos in US Cold War Lit	Catherine C Turner	VANP 113	TR 10:15 AM-11:45 AM	In the United States, the years of the Cold War (roughly 1946-1989) were marked by existential anxiety over global annihilation, panic about the threat of communism abroad and at home, demands for racial justice and redefinition of gender norms. Alongside national and foreign policy, literature played a powerful role both in defining and resisting “containment” of Communist ideology around the world and of liberatory forces in the United States. This course will consider the power literature had during this period and the ways in which that power drove authors to rethink their own approach to production as well as the ways in which literature came to serve as propaganda. We will consider how ideas about freedom in the West shaped literary production as the state coopted literature as a form of competition between the two superpowers. Beginning with texts and films that represented American’s anxieties and fears about Communism and the atomic bomb, this course will show the ways in which the sense of crisis and anxiety drove literary experimentation and increasingly personal forms of poetry and prose. This course will examine works like Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, John Okada’s No No Boy and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar to begin to see how freedom of expression reflected and resisted social and state efforts to contain demands for freedom from women and racial minorities. Finally, the course will end by looking at a range of experimental novels which worked to defy assumptions about cultural superiority and freedom of expression including Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony. Students in this class will read literary texts, watch movies and television shows alongside reading scholarly texts to put the course material into context. Class time will be spent in discussion and students will be expected to come to class ready to talk about both the text at hand and what they are finding in their own research. Each week students will shape discussion by bringing artifacts from the period into conversation with the text in short written connection papers (500-1000 words). Throughout the semester, students will work on expanding those artifact papers into a multi-media Cold War cultural topic of their choice.	ENGL263401				https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML262401
COML 277-401	Jewish American Lit	Kathryn Hellerstein	WILL 723	TR 10:15 AM-11:45 AM	What makes Jewish American literature Jewish? What makes it American? This course will address these questions about ethnic literature through fiction, poetry, drama, and other writings by Jews in America, from their arrival in 1654 to the present. We will discuss how Jewish identity and ethnicity shape literature and will consider how form and language develop as Jewish writers "immigrate" from Yiddish, Hebrew, and other languages to American English. Our readings, from Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology, will include a variety of stellar authors, both famous and less-known, including Isaac Mayer Wise, Emma Lazarus, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Celia Dropkin, Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, and Allegra Goodman. Students will come away from this course having explored the ways that Jewish culture intertwines with American culture in literature. All readings and lecturese in English.	JWST277401, GRMN263401	Arts & Letters Sector			https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML277401
COML 280-401	Contemporary Italy: Pop Culture	Julia Heim	WILL 321	TR 03:30 PM-05:00 PM	Is the land of good food, beautiful landscapes, and la bella vita really how it looks in the movies? Where do our ideas about Italy come from and how do they compare to the realities of its cultural production and its contemporary day-to-day life? This cultural survey course on contemporary Italy will investigate the similarities and divergences of these perceptions by researching current social, political, and media trends and putting them face to face with our preconceived notions. The course will cover major cultural trends from fashion and food trends, to eco-Italy, criminality and the Anthropocene, to immigration, to Black and LGBTQ Italia, to contemporary transfeminism, to Berlusconismo and Populism, to Netflix Italia and Social media culture. Through written assignments both in and outside the classroom, oral presentations, and multimedia projects we will critically reflect on these contemporary issues and gain a stronger understanding of the socio-cultural specificity of the Italian cultural landscape and its relationship to contemporary global socio-political trends and identities.	ITAL282401				https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML280401
COML 281-401	Topics Poetry & Poetics: the Person in the Poem	Max C Cavitch		CANCELED	Through the study of a wide variety of poems from the Renaissance to the present, students in this seminar will expand their familiarity with the sweep of modern English-language poetry and will develop a thorough understanding of fundamental poetic concepts—especially those concepts related to the question of “the person in the poem”: “author,” “voice,” “persona,” “address,” “personification,” “representation,” and “referentiality.” These are all concepts essential to the advanced study of poetry and of literature more comprehensively. We’ll sharpen our understanding of these concepts in our close readings and discussions of major poems by authors including W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Alexander Pope, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and William Wordsworth. These poetic works will be complemented by our study of some essential works of modern poetic theory. Course requirements will include several short essays and a variety of in-class exercises, including recitation, memorization, and imitation as well as active participation in seminar discussion. (No mid-term or final exams.)	ENGL269401				https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML281401
COML 282-401	Mod Heb Lit & Film Trans: Voices of Israel	Nili R Gold	EDUC 121	W 10:15 AM-01:15 PM	While we may think of Israel as monolithic, its culture represents a multiplicity of voices. What began in Israel’s early decades as an attempt to create a single canonic, Zionist narrative exploded into many voices in the 1980s with the pluralistic climate inspired by Postmodernism. This is when poets like Yona Wallach, a precursor of modern LGBTQ+ writers, came to prominence. In the 21st century, with online publication becoming easier, the multitude of Israeli literary expression is overflowing. Beginning with contemporary works, this course will examine voices that have been less heard in Israeli poetry, prose, and film, such as women, Arab or Mizrachi writers, Holocaust survivors, and LGBTQ+ artists.	CIMS159401, NELC159401, JWST154401	Arts & Letters Sector Cross Cultural Analysis			https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML282401
COML 287-401	Ethnic Humor	Dan Ben-Amos	MEYH B13	TR 01:45 PM-03:15 PM	Humor in ethnic societies has two dimensions: internal and external. The inside humor of an ethnic group is accessible to its members; it draws upon their respective social structures, historical and social experiences, languages, cultural symbols, and social and economic circumstances and aspirations. The external humor of an ethnic group targets members of other ethnic groups, and draws upon their stereotypes, and attributed characteristics by other ethnic groups. The external ethnic humor flourishes in immigrant and ethnically heterogenic societies. In both cases jokes and humor are an integral part of social interaction, and in their performance relate to the social, economic, and political dynamics of traditional and modern societies.	NELC287401, FOLK202401
COML 290-401	Tpcs: Gendr/Sexualty/Lit: African Amer Wom Writers		BENN 141	TR 10:15 AM-11:45 AM	Audre Lorde famously stated, “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.”In She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks, the poet Marlene NourbeSe Philip observed, “I want to write about the beauty of kinky hair and flat noses—maybe I should be writing about the language that kinked the hair and flattened noses…” NourbeSe Philip might have added that she also should be writing about the language that engendered woman. Taking these statements as a point of departure for the seminar, we will examine the ways a selection of authors and filmmakers engage language for social change. Included on the syllabus will be works by Harriet Jacobs, Ida B Wells, Lucy Parsons, June Jordan, Sarah Moldoror, Léonora Miano, Marilene Felinto, Maaza Mengiste, Akwaeke Emezi, and Elizabeth Acevedo. The course will feature class visits by several contemporary writers. In consultation with the instructor, students will complete a semester-long project.	ENGL290401, GSWS290401, AFRC290401				https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML290401
COML 292-401	Topics Film Studies: Romantic Comedy	Meta Mazaj	BENN 141	TR 03:30 PM-05:00 PM	We may know what it is like to fall in love, but how do movies tell us what it is like? Through an exciting tour of American and World cinema, we will analyze the moods and swings, successes and failures of love in romantic comedy, one of the most popular but generally overlooked and taken for granted genres. We will turn a spotlight on it by examining what elements and iconography constitute the “romcom” genre, what specific qualities inform its sub-groupings such as screwball, sex comedy or radical romantic comedy, how they are related to their historical, cultural and ideological contexts, and what we can learn about their audiences. Watching classic as well contemporary examples of the genre, from City Lights (1931), It Happened One Night (1934) and Roman Holiday (1953), to Harold and Maude (1971), Annie Hall (1977), How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days (2003) and Her (2013), we will problematize this overly-familiar cinema to make it new and strange again, and open it up to creative analysis. Main navigation	CIMS202401, ARTH289401, ENGL292401
COML 295-401	Topics Cultural Studies: British Cinema	James English	BENN 141	TR 01:45 PM-03:15 PM	This is a wide-ranging introduction to the “other” major cinema in English: the films of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. The British film industry has been thriving in the 21st century, but it remains the underdog in a global media environment dominated by Hollywood. We will consider some of the ways British filmmakers have positioned themselves in the space of world cinema and television as close rivals or radical alternatives to the American model. Our approach will be to study two films a week, mixing films from the 21st century with films from earlier moments in British cinema history from the 1930s through the 1990s. Our aim will be to discern some of the enduring cinematic modes and transatlantic strategies that contribute to the national “signature” of British film. Our screenings will run the gamut from the big-budget James Bond and Harry Potter franchis to mid-sized transnational productions such as Pride & Prejudice and Slumdog Millionaire, to more independent or artisanal work by such directors as Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Sally Potter, Michael Winterbottom, Lynne Ramsay, and Andrea Arnold. A number of films we will study were made for British television, and we will devote some attention to the important and changing relationship between TV and cinema in contemporary screen culture. Written work for the class will include four mid-term exams (no final), two 1-page research findings about the business side of the film industry, a 3-page formal analysis essay, and a research paper with various options, including a creative-writing option. Viewing every film at least once is required, but reading is relatively light. There are no prerequisites and no expectation that you have any expertise in British cinema or culture. If you enjoy watching films and learning about how they were made and in what ways they succeeded or failed with audiences, you should be able to do well in this class.	ENGL295401, CIMS295401, ARTH293401				https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML295401
COML 300-401	The Stages of Italian Theatre	Frank Pellicone		CANCELED	In recognition of the visit to Penn’s campus by the Teatro delle Albe, the celebrated, experimental theater company from Ravenna, we will consider the evolution of Italian drama and Italian theaters. We will also have the opportunity to meet the members of the group and share in the communality of the experience. Coming out of the isolation of a pandemic, we will put emphasis on the venues in which the works were initially presented. How do performance spaces influence dramatic works? What is the connection between dramatic and civic performance? We will consider works by Plautus, Machiavelli, Aretino, the Intronati, Bibbiena, Goldoni, Pirandello, De Filippo and Dario Fo. We will look at the phenomenon of opera, and we will trace the origins of the commedia dell’arte and follow its evolution into our current culture. When possible, we will invite local artists to share in the discussion of the relationship between theater and performance spaces. All works will be read in translation and the course will be conducted in English.	ENGL231401, ITAL300401		No Prior Language Experience Required		https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML300401
COML 321-401	National Literatures: National Epics	David Wallace	VANP 627	TR 10:15 AM-11:45 AM	A course that traces how particular literary texts, very often medieval, are adopted to become foundational for national literatures. Key moments of emphasis will be the early nineteenth century, the 1930s, and (to some extent) the unfolding present. Research subtending this offering has been conducted over the last years, both in my editing of Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418 (2 vols and 82 chapters, Oxford UP, 2016) and in preparation for "Medieval Studies in Troubled Times: the 1930s," to be offered as Presidential plenary at the Medieval Academy of America convention at Penn on 9 March 2019. I have also travelled and lectured extensively for Penn Alumni Travel over the last decade, crossing national boundaries and also pondering how complex literary issues might be framed for a broad (but exceptionally intelligent) audience. Issues arising in traversing Mediterranean space are explored in an article published (in Italian) in Studi migranti. Some texts immediately suggest themselves for analysis. The Song of Roland, for example, has long been fought over between France and Germany; each new war inspires new editions on both sides. The French colonial education system, highly centralized, long made the Chanson de Roland a key text, with the theme of Islamic attack on the European mainland especially timely, it was thought, during the Algerian war of independence. Germany also sees the Niebelungenlied as a key text, aligning it with the Rhine as an impeccably Germanic: but the Danube, especially as envisioned by Stefan Zweig, offers an alternative, hybridized, highly hyphenated cultural vision in running its Germanic-Judaic-Slavic-Roman course to the Black Sea. The course will not be devoted exclusively to western Europe. Delicate issues arise as nations determine what their national epic needs to be. Russia, for example, needs the text known as The Song of Igor to be genuine, since it is the only Russian epic to predate the Mongol invasion. The text was discovered in 1797 and then promptly lost in Moscow's great fire of 1812; suggestions that it might have been a fake have to be handled with care in Putin's Russia.	ENGL321401		Benjamin Franklin Seminars
COML 359-401	Sem Modern Hebrew Lit: Autobiography in Literature, Amichai	Nili R Gold		W 05:15 PM-08:15 PM	Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) is arguably Israel’s national poet. Looking at his 1948-2000 covertly autobiographical corpus, however, reveals a complex individual who struggled with his identity. “I Want to Die in my Bed", a young Yehuda Amichai's anti-war poem, propelled a literary and ideological rebellion in Israel. Amichai did not only express generational sensibilities but was torn between the orthodox Judaism in which he was raised and his secular way of life, European traditions and a nascent Zionist culture, his German mother tongue and the adopted Hebrew language. This course is an in-depth study of the life and work of a literary giant and simultaneously a lesson in the methodology of “archaeological reading.” The course covers Amichai’s poetry, short stories, plays, archived letters, and segments from his novel, and musical renditions of his poetry, as well as recent scholarship. Texts and discussions in Hebrew.	NELC359401, NELC659401, JWST359401, JWST659401	Arts & Letters Sector			https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML359401
COML 396-401	Literary Theory Ancient To Modern	Rita Copeland	MEYH B2	TR 01:45 PM-03:15 PM	This is a course on the history of literary theory, a survey of major debates about literature, poetics, and ideas about what literary texts should do, from ancient Greece to examples of modern European thought. The first half of the course will focus on early periods: Greek and Roman antiquity, especially Plato and Aristotle; the medieval period (including St. Augustine, Dante, and Boccaccio), and the early modern period (such as Philip Sidney and Giambattista Vico). In the second half of the course we will turn to modern concerns by looking at the literary (or "art") theories of some major philosophers and theorists: Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Walter Benjamin. We end the course in the mid-twentieth century. The purpose driving this course is to consider closely how this tradition generated questions that are still with us, such as: what is the act of interpretation; what is the "aesthetic"; what is "imitation" or mimesis; and how are we to know an author's intention. During the semester there will be four short writing assignments in the form of analytical essays (3 pages each). Students may use these small essays to build into a long piece of writing on a single text or group of texts at the end of the term. Most of our readings will come from a published anthology of literary criticism and theory; a few readings will be on Canvas.	CLST396401, ENGL396401		Benjamin Franklin Seminars		https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML396401
COML 533-401	The Cosmos of Dante's Comedy	Francesco Marco Aresu	VANP 627	F 01:45 PM-04:45 PM	This course provides an in-depth introduction to Dante’s masterwork as a point of entry to the history of Western literature, philosophy, and science. The core of the course consists of an intensive study of Dante’s encyclopedic poem in relation to the culture and history of Medieval Europe. We examine the poem as both a product and an interpretation of the world it describes. We also observe how the Comedycasts its long shadow on modern culture: in Primo Levi’s description of the horror of Nazi concentration camps, or in Amiri Baraka’s fragmentary representation of America’s infernal racist system. We investigate the challenges that Dante’s text elicits when it migrates to visual and cinematic arts (from medieval illuminations to Robert Rauschenberg to David Fincher), continuously camouflaging and adapting to different media. And we critically reflect on how, after seven hundred years, the Comedy has not finished saying what it has to say. Major topics of this course include: representations of the otherworld; the soul’s relation to the divine; Dante’s concepts of governance and universal peace; mythology and theology in Dante’s Christian poetics; the role of the classics in the Middle Ages; intertextuality and imitation; genres and genders in Medieval literature; notions of authorship and authority during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; the culture and materiality of manuscripts in the Middle Ages; and the reception of Dante’s work from the fourteenth century to the present.	ITAL531401				https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML533401
COML 541-401	18th-Century "Visual Cultures of Race and Empire"	Chi-ming Yang	BENN 224	R 12:00 PM-03:00 PM	This course approaches the Western history of race and racial classification (1600-1800) with a focus on visual and material culture, natural history, and science that connected Atlantic and Pacific worlds. Across the long eighteenth century, new knowledges about human diversity and species distinctions emerged alongside intensifications of global trade with Asia. The course will include case studies of chinoiserie textiles, portraits of consuming individuals, natural history prints and maps, Chinese export porcelain and furnishings, and "blackamoor" sculpture. Objects of visual and material culture will be studied alongside readings on regional and world histories that asserted universal freedoms as well as hierarchies of human, animal, and plant-kind. Keeping in mind that the idea of race continues to be a distributed phenomenon - across color, gender, class, religion, speech, culture - we will explore changing vocabularies of difference, particularly concerning skin color, across a range of texts and images. Knowledge often does not take written or literary form, and for this reason, we will study examples of visual and material culture as well as forms of technology that were critical to defining human varieties, to use the eighteenth-century term. Although we will be reading texts in English, some in translation, we will also account for European and non-European knowledge traditions - vernacular, indigenous - that informed scientific and imaginative writings about the globe. Topics may include cultural and species distinction, global circulations of commodities between the East and West Indies, the transatlantic slave trade, the casta system of racial classification in the Americas, religious and scientific explanations of blackness and whiteness, and visual representations of non-European people.	ENGL544401, ARTH568401
COML 555-401	Affect Theory & Power	Donovan O. Schaefer	MEYH B5	M 01:45 PM-04:45 PM	This seminar will examine contemporary affect theory and its relationship with Michel Foucault's theory of power. We will begin by mapping out Foucault's "analytics of power," from his early work on power knowledge to his late work on embodiment, desire, and the care of the self. We will then turn to affect theory, an approach which centralizes the non-rational, emotive force of power. No previous knowledge of theory is required.	RELS552401, GSWS554401				https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML555401
COML 558-640	Mla Proseminar: Queer Shakespeare	Abdulhamit Arvas	BENN 24	R 05:15 PM-07:55 PM	This is a monographic course, which may be on Spenser, Milton, or other major figures of the period. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a complete description of the current offerings.	ENGL538640
COML 562-401	Public Environmental Humanities	Bethany Wiggin	WILL 623	W 01:45 PM-04:45 PM	This broadly interdisciplinary course is designed for Graduate and Undergraduate Fellows in the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH) who hail from departments across Arts and Sciences as well as other schools at the university. The course is also open to others with permission of the instructors. Work in environmental humanities by necessity spans academic disciplines. By design, it can also address and engage publics beyond traditional academic settings. This seminar, with limited enrollment, explores best practices in public environmental humanities. Students receive close mentoring to develop and execute cross-disciplinary, public engagement projects on the environment.	GRMN544401, ANTH543401, ENVS544401, URBS544401		Permission Needed From Instructor All Readings and Lectures in English
COML 573-401	Inside the Archive	Liliane Weissberg	VANP 627	T 01:45 PM-04:45 PM	What is an archive, and what is its history? What makes an archival collection special, and how can we work with it? In this course, we will discuss work essays that focus on the idea and concept of the archive by Jacques Derrida, Michel de Certeau, Benjamin Buchloh, Cornelia Vismann, and others. We will consider the difference between public and private archives, archives dedicated to specific disciplines, persons, or events, and consider the relationship to museums and memorials. Further questions will involve questions of property and ownership as well as the access to material, and finally the archive's upkeep, expansion, or reduction. While the first part of the course will focus on readings about archives, we will invite curators, and visit archives (either in person or per zoom) in the second part of the course. At Penn, we will consider four archives: (1) the Louis Kahn archive of architecture at Furness, (2) the Lorraine Beitler Collection of material relating to the Dreyfus affair, (3) the Schoenberg collection of medieval manuscripts and its digitalization, and (4) the University archives. Outside Penn, we will study the following archives and their history: (1) Leo Baeck Institute for the study of German Jewry in New York, (2) the Sigmund Freud archive at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., (3) the German Literary Archive and the Literturmuseum der Moderne in Marbach, Germany, and (4) the archives of the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.	GRMN577401, ENGL671401, JWST577401, ARTH569401		Undergraduates Need Permission All Readings and Lectures in English		https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML573401
COML 598-401	Sex and the Human Sciences	Sarah P. Brilmyer Heather Love	BENN 224	M 10:15 AM-01:15 PM	This course will introduce students to key texts in the history of sexuality, with an emphasis on science studies, critical race theory, and the history of the disciplines. Topics to be addressing include sexology and the circulation of sexual knowledge; the emergence of psychoanalysis and the uses of psychology; transgender lives in and out of the clinic; the built environment and sexual practice; whiteness and the making of normativity. We will read a combination of historical, theoretical, and literary texts, moving from the 19th century through the 21st. The first half of the course, led by Pearl, will trace the tensions between human and nonhuman, will and drive, that arise as the human sciences transform in response to the sexual theories of Charles Darwin, Havelock Ellis, Sigmund Freud, and others. The second half of the course, led by Heather, will address the rise and circulation of sexual knowledge in the 20th century, with a focus on sexual practice and conflicts over expertise, narrative, and power. Readings may include: Darwin's The Descent of Man, Freud's Three Essays, Willa Cather's "Paul's Case," Sylvia Wynter's, "Towards the Sociogenic Principle," Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native, Frantz Fanon's clinical writings, The Moynihan Report and responses, Harold Garfinkel, “Passing and the Managed Achievement of Sex Status in an ‘Intersexed’ Person” [“Agnes”], Esther Newton’s Mother Camp, Laud Humphrey’s Tearoom Trade, Samuel Delany’ Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, Gayl Jones’s Corregidora, and selected writings by Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse, David Marriott, Durba Mitra, Steven Epstein, Kadji Amin, Beans Velocci, and others.	ENGL598401, GSWS593401
COML 610-401	Ancient Medieval Soul	Rita Copeland Ralph Rosen	JAFF 104	M 01:45 PM-04:45 PM	This seminar focuses on premodern conceptions of the 'soul', the force felt to animate and energize a human body for as long as it was considered alive, and to activate virtually all aspects of its behavior through time. Premodern concepts of the soul attempted to account for a person's emotions and desires, perceptions, thoughts, memory, intellect, moral behavior, and sometimes physical condition. The course will trace the various ancient theories of the soul from the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Stoic thought in Greek and Latin, medical writers (Hippocratics, Hellenistic doctors, Galen), and Neoplatonists, to the medieval receptions and transformations of ancient thought, including Augustine and Boethius, Avicenna's interpretation of Aristotle and its medieval influence, and Aquinas and other later medieval ethicists. These premodern conceptions of the soul have a surprisingly long afterlife, reaching into the literary cultures and psychological movements of early modernity and beyond. Knowledge of Greek or Latin not required, but see the following: The seminar will meet for one two-hour session per week, and a separate one-hour 'breakout' session during which students who have registered for GREK 608 will meet to study a selection texts in Greek, and students who have registered for COML/ENGL will meet to discuss medieval or early modern texts relevant to their fields of study.	GREK608401, ENGL706401		For Doctoral Students Only		https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=COML610401
COML 767-401	1922: Long, Forgotten, Untimely	Paul K Saint-Amour	VANP 625	W 03:30 PM-06:30 PM	1922 is widely regarded as the annus mirabilis or “wonder year” of international modernism, the year in which landmark works including T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, James Joyce’s Uysses, D. H. Lawrence’s Aaron’s Rod, Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party and Other Stories, Marcel Proust’s Sodom et Gomorrhe, and Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room were published. In this seminar we’ll mark the centenary of 1922 by studying some of these works in whole or in part. But we’ll also use the occasion to examine the construction and ramifications of this particular wonder year, to shine a critical sidelight on the politics and temporality of punctual commemoration, and to explore pedagogical and methodological alternatives. Some questions we’ll pursue: what forgotten or under-consecrated works published in the same year, including works by non-white, non-Western, and non-settler authors, might complicate and perhaps decolonize narratives about it as an apogee of modernism? What are the limitations and affordances of constraining oneself to the archive of a year? What longer energies and period arcs ran through this particular year? In what ways could we say that 1922—that any year—refuses to correspond to itself or hold still under scrutiny?	ENGL773401
COML 790-401	Rec Issues in Crit Theor: Psychoanalysis and Critical Race Theory	David L Eng	BENN 224	W 10:15 AM-01:15 PM	Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a growing body of scholarship on psychoanalysis and race in cultural studies and the clinical arena. However, there has been little research considering psychoanalysis in relation to critical race theory, a movement that grew out of the 1980s U.S. legal academy examining the ways in which law and liberalism produce racial subjectivity and subordination. This seminar analyzes the psychic and the legal in tandem. We will put classic writings from these two fields in conversation with one another by focusing on some overlapping themes: subject-object relations in histories of slavery and property law; psychic and legal prohibitions on incest and miscegenation; legalized exclusion and state-sponsored segregation in regard to racial grief and grievance; the politics of colorblindness and mechanisms of repression and dissociation; transitional space and its connections to transitional justice and transitional democracy; reparations as a key concept in both political theory and object relations. Throughout the semester we will consider how the unconscious provides a critical framework for analyzing the intergenerational transmission of both trauma and structural racism.	ENGL790401, GSWS790401		For PhD Students Only
COML 981-001	M.A. Exam Prep	Emily Wilson		CANCELED	Course open to first-year Comparative Literature graduate students in preparation for required M.A. exam taken in spring of first year.			Permission Needed From Instructor