Students should consult the Comparative Literature website for the list of currently offered courses.
| Course Code | Course Title |
|---|---|
| The Bases for Comparison | |
| COL1900H | Reading and Research for the MA |
Special Topics Course | |
| COL4000Y | Practicum on Research and Bibliography in Comparative Literature |
| COL5016H | Dramatic Text and Theoretical Communication: Bertolt Brecht, Robert Lepage, and Robert Wilson |
| COL5018H | Gender and Agency |
| COL5032H | Feminist Approaches to Medieval Literature |
| COL5033H | Visual Portraitures in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives |
The Two Avant-Gardes | |
| COL5081H | Benjamin’s Arcades Project |
| COL5086H | Literature, Culture, and Contact in Medieval Iberia |
The Problem of Translation: Historical, Theoretical, and Pragmatic Perspectives | |
| COL5100H | The Late Barthes: The Neutral, Mourning, and Photography |
| COL5101H | Diasporic Cities: Itinerant Narratives of Metropoles by Travellers and Expatriates |
| COL5109H | Jean-Luc Nancy: Retreating the Aesthetic |
Post-Capitalist Fantasy: Culture, Politics, Subjectivity | |
| COL5111H | Revenge, Resistance, Race, and Law |
| COL5117H | Freud and Psychoanalysis |
| COL5122H | Text and Digital Media |
| COL5124H | Public Reading: Literature and the Formation of Critical Publics |
| COL5125H | Literature, Trauma, Modernity |
Sports Narrated: Literary and Interdisciplinary Explorations | |
| COL5127H | Queer Ethics and Aesthetics of Existence |
| COL5128H | Tragedy: Instantiations of a Dramatic Form in Theatre, Philosophy, Opera, and Popular Cinema |
| COL5129H | New Addictions for the Anthropocene |
| COL5131H | Non Disclosure Acts |
| COL5132H | One Philosopher and One Artist: Towards a New Practice of Comparison |
| COL5133H | Comparative Modernisms |
Climate Genres | |
Aesthetics of Space, Place, and Power | |
Dramaturgy of the Dialectic | |
Critical Race Theory | |
| COL5140H | Beckett and Philosophy |
| COL5141H | Beyond the Anthropocene: New Directions in Environmental Humanities |
| COL5143H | Dramaturgies of the Dialectic Part I: Hegel: The End of Art and the Endgame of Theater |
| COL5144H | Dramaturgies of the Dialectic Part II: Tragedy and Philosophy after Hegel |
| COL5145H | Poetics of Personhood |
| COL5142H | Women and Sex and Talk |
| COL5146H | Written in Blood: Caribbean Readings in Conflict and Healing |
| COL5147H | Books at Risk |
| COL5148H | Post-Conflict Literatures: Europe, Africa, and the Americas |
| COL5149H | The Art of Combat: Violence, Culture, and Competition |
| COL5150H | The Palliative: Art, Politics, Ecology, Medicine |
| COL5151H | The Theatre of Science |
| COL5153H | Lyric: Politics and Poetic Form |
| JCD5135H | Race, Politics, and Jewishness |
| JCD5136H | Migration and Memory: Narratives of Jewish Exile and Displacement |
| JCO5121H | Classics and Theory Seminar |
| JCY5116H | Freud: Case Histories |
| JFC1813H | Littérature de contact et pensée anthropologique en France du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle / Literature of Contact and Anthropological Thought, 16th–18th Century |
Feminism and Postmodernism: Theory and Practice | |
Collections of Knowledge: Encyclopedism and Travel Literature in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800) | |
| JFC5120H | The Gift / Le Don |
Performative Autobiographical Acts: Painted and Photographic Representations of Self in Personal and Political Testimonials | |
| JFC5136H | Allegory and Allegorism in Literature and Fine Arts |
Critical Theory in Context: The French-German Connection | |
Comparative Totalitarian Culture | |
Revolutionary Women’s Cultures in East Asia, Early to Mid 20th Century | |
The Passage from History to Fiction | |
Theories of the Novel |