Comparative Literature: Comparative Literature MA, PhD Courses

Students should consult the Comparative Literature website for the list of currently offered courses.

Course Code Course Title
COL1000H
The Bases for Comparison
COL1900H Reading and Research for the MA
COL2100H
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
COL5027H Memory, Trauma, and History
COL5032H Feminist Approaches to Medieval Literature
COL5033H Visual Portraitures in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives
COL5047H
The Two Avant-Gardes
COL5072H Affinities: Readings of Realism and Radicalism
COL5081H Benjamin’s Arcades Project
COL5086H Literature, Culture, and Contact in Medieval Iberia
COL5094H Forms of Critical Writing
COL5096H
The Problem of Translation: Historical, Theoretical, and Pragmatic Perspectives
COL5101H Diasporic Cities: Itinerant Narratives of Metropoles by Travellers and Expatriates
COL5109H Jean-Luc Nancy: Retreating the Aesthetic
COL5110H
Post-Capitalist Fantasy: Culture, Politics, Subjectivity
COL5111H Revenge, Resistance, Race, and Law
COL5117H Freud and Psychoanalysis
COL5118H Sovereignty: Hobbes and his 21st-Century Successors
COL5122H Text and Digital Media
COL5124H Public Reading: Literature and the Formation of Critical Publics
COL5125H Literature, Trauma, Modernity
COL5126H
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
COL5130H
Comparison and "the Human"
COL5131H Non Disclosure Acts
COL5132H One Philosopher and One Artist: Towards a New Practice of Comparison
COL5133H Comparative Modernisms
COL5135H
Climate Genres
COL5136H
Aesthetics of Space, Place, and Power
COL5137H Paraliterary Practices and Dialogic Creativity
COL5138H
Dramaturgy of the Dialectic
COL5139H
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
JCD5135H Race, Politics, and Jewishness
JCD5136H Migration and Memory: Narratives of Jewish Exile and Displacement
JCO5121H Classics and Theory Seminar
JFC5025H
Feminism and Postmodernism: Theory and Practice
JFC5105H
Collections of Knowledge: Encyclopedism and Travel Literature in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800)
JFC5129H
Performative Autobiographical Acts: Painted and Photographic Representations of Self in Personal and Political Testimonials
JFC5136H Allegory and Allegorism in Literature and Fine Arts
JGC1855H
Critical Theory in Context: The French-German Connection
JHL1282H
Comparative Totalitarian Culture
JHL1680H
Revolutionary Women’s Cultures in East Asia, Early to Mid 20th Century
JLE5225H
The Passage from History to Fiction
JLV5134H
Theories of the Novel
JOS5019H
Cervantes and Renaissance Humanism
JOS5029H Reading Cervantes