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GRADUATE REGISTRATION — Spring 2010 | ||||
Graduate Seminars (6000-level as well as most
G4000-level classes): Unless application instructions for specific
seminars appear below, students interested in a seminar should simply
attend the first class meeting. If necessary--that is, if too many
students show up--decisions about who will be admitted to the course
will be made at or shortly after the first meeting. [Generally
speaking, students in G4000s have an alternative to the usual long
seminar paper.] Classes requiring applications are listed below,
alphabetically by instructor. PATRICIA DAILEY Beowulf (ENGL G4092y) Prerequisite: One semester of Old English required, as this course demands a solid knowledge of Old English; also, computer skills required as assignments will be required on class Wiki site. This course will involve close reading in the original language of this very well known Anglo-Saxon epic. Each student will work through his or her own individual translations from Old English to Modern English over the course of the semester and will post them collectively on a site we will use for our collective revisions, comments, and questions. Preference given to those who already have a working knowledge of the language. Our primary text is Klaeber's edition of Beowulf. We will also compare various translations (Liuzza, Heany, Donaldson) with our own. Secondary materials will include The Postmodern Beowulf as well as other materials to familiarize us with historical context, contemporary scholarship, and literary sources. Requirements involve a steady dose of translation each week, two presentations, as well as a final paper. Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Dailey (pd2132@columbia.edu) by Friday, November 13, with the subject heading "Beowulf." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Note that a prior language course in Old English is a prerequisite for this class; please indicate such coursework in your application. Embodiment: Ancient, Medieval, Postmodern (ENGL G6537y) This course explores how the body, the senses, interiority, and materiality are constructed in ancient and medieval literary, philosophical, and religious texts and how they are connected with hermeneutic and cognitive practices. Texts from antiquity include Aristotle, Paul, Origen, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Theodore of Mopsuestia; texts from the Middle Ages include the Old English Body and Soul and The Ruin, Old English riddles, William of St. Thierry, Rudolf von Biberach, Guigo II, Marguerite d'Oingt, Hadewijch, Ida of Louvain, Bernard of Clairvaux, Hugh of St. Victor, Richard of St. Victor, and Bonaventure. The course will also look at how medieval readings of embodiment dialogue with, are commesurate to, or differ from readings of materiality and embodiment in Hegel, Marx, Merleau-Ponty, Lévinas Derrida, Nancy, Lyotard, Negri, Agamben, and Butler. What kind of "radical" materialities do we find in the post-Marxist thinkers like Negri, or of Agamben? Given the tendency in the wave of phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty) to think of embodiment as a kind of radical interpentetration of world and body, what differences do we find in the revision to phenomenology evidenced by thinkers such as Lyotard, Derrida, and Nancy? How do the "materialities" in medieval mystical texts and their theological counterparts compare? Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Dailey (pd2132@columbia.edu) by Friday, November 20, with the subject heading "Embodiment seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken (especially in theory), along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. NICHOLAS DAMES Eliot and Trollope (CLEN G6402y) Two major practitioners of the novel in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, presented with an eye to undoing, or rethinking, their presumed differences. The great novelist of the moral imagination versus the novelist of moral compromise and accommodation; the cosmopolitan novelist of ideas versus the nativist, even xenophobic English gentleman; the all-knowing, all-forgiving Mother versus the distant, genial Father; profundity versus prolixity: by thinking these myths relationally, even dialectically, we might achieve a better understanding of the horizon of the Novel in its most culturally dominant period in Britain. We will attend most strenuously to challenges of form faced by both writers, such as: beginnings and endings (or origins and purposes), sequentiality (and thus causality and consequence), scales of space and time, the balancing of dialogue and description, the evocation of consciousness in narrative, and generating ethical lessons out of contingent events. Selected major novels of both, read in alternation, along with important non-fiction (Trollope's Autobiography, numerous essays of Eliot's), pivotal critical pieces of recent years, and samples of Victorian and modern moral philosophy from J. S. Mill to Bernard Williams. Application Instructions: To apply to the seminar, please send an email stating your interest and preparation by Wednesday, November 18 to nd122@columbia.edu. MARIANNE HIRSCH Trauma, Terror, and Performance (CLEN G6550y) This course explores the interconnections between trauma, terror, memory, and performance through three major 20th and 21st c. events - the Holocaust, Argentina's 'Dirty War,' and the United States's post 9/11 "war on terror " - and the theoretical questions they raise. Do they each have their own unique structure and idiom, or can we think about individual and collective trauma through a trans-local, cosmopolitan lens? Topics include: the performance of state power and state sponsored terror; the individual and collective nature of trauma; the effects of gender, race and power on trauma and memory; embodied practices such as testimony and witnessing, their use in literature, museums, pedagogy, and performance, and their archivization; the relation of torture and truth; the social role of sites of memory and memorialization (Auschwitz, Club Atlético, Ground Zero, Guantanamo, etc.); theaters of justice such as trials, tribunals and truth commissions; performances of protest and resistance. This course draws from classic and recent readings at the juncture of trauma, memory, and performance studies. To build on the paradigms suggested by the Holocaust, Argentina's 'Dirty War,' and the U.S. after 9/11, students will be encouraged to extend the topics explored in class to other sites. Please note that this is a consortium course which will alternate meetings at Columbia and NYU. Students need to figure travel time into their plans. We plan to meet on Wednesdays from 4 -6:30. During the semester, several evening talks and seminars will be organized in conjunction with the course, both at Columbia and NYU. Application Instructions: To apply for the seminar, please send a paragraph stating your interest and preparation to Professor Hirsch (mh2349@columbia.edu) by November 15.
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