Modern European intellectual and cultural history. Books include Karl Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory: Dethroning the Self (Cambridge, 1999; paperback 2001), European Romanticism: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford, 2007), and Adventures of the Symbolic: Postmarxism and Radical Democracy(Columbia University Press, 2012).
Modern Arabic fiction, the Arabic Novel, translation; The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction; The Arabic Literary Heritage; recently translated Ahmad al-Tawfiq's Abu Musa’s Women Neighbors(2006), and Hanan al-Shaykh's The Locust and the Bird (2009).
TR 3:00-4:30 Fakhreddine
Cross listed with ARAB 432
This course will explore different critical approaches to the interpretation
and analysis of Arabic literature from pre-Islamic poetry to the modern novel
and prose-poem. The course will draw on western and Arabic literary criticism to explore the role of critical theory not only in understanding and
contextualizing literature but also in forming literary genres and attitudes.
Entered Fall 2013
Lucas' interests include anthropology, geography, religious studies, gender and sexuality, hemispheric studies, and Latinx studies. He is the author of the poetry collection Wet Land and has published poems and essays in boundary2, Poetry Foundation, and PEN Poetry.
A. Véronique Charles completed her doctorate in Comparative Literature and Literary Studies with a certificate in Africana Studies. Her dissertation entitled Writing Atlantic–African Slavery The Middle Passage in Continental Terms engages in a comparative study of literary figurations and institutional records of Atlantic slavery in Africa.
W 9:00-12:00 Rabaté
Undergrads Need Permission
Cross listed with CLST 511, GRMN 534, ENGL 601, SLAV 500
TR 10:30-12 Staff
Communication Within the Curriculum
Cross listed with ENGL 001
CANCELLED
Cambridge University Press
2014