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Curriculum
The MA in History and Literature is a one-year program, with courses from September to June, and an MA essay normally written during the summer following coursework. A total of 30 credits are necessary to earn the degree: 24 credits for coursework, and 6 credits for the MA essay. The degree is comprised of the following modules:
1. Two core courses taught at Reid Hall (Columbia’s Paris campus):
- Introduction to History and Literature (3 pts). A historical and conceptual introduction to the relationship between history and literature.
- Research Seminar (3 pts). Initiation to archival, bibliographical, and philological work, with hands-on sessions in libraries and archives, and designing of a research project.
2. Three electives taught at Reid Hall (3 pts each).
3. Three electives taught at EHESS and/or ENS (3 pts each).
4. An MA essay of no fewer than 50 pages (6 pts).
1. COURSES OFFERED AT REID HALL:
HILI G4002. Introduction to History and Literature. 3 pts. Fall. Carol Gluck - bio. A historical and conceptual introduction to the relationship between history and literature
HILI G8xxx. Narratives of World War II. 3 pts. Fall. Carol Gluck - bio. An exploration of literary, cinematic, and museal narratives of the war produced in the decades since 1945, primarily in France but also including other places. The analytic approach centers both on the historicity of, and the history in, the texts, with the goal of questioning the nature of narrative in different forms.
HILI G8400. Research Seminar. 3 pts. Spring. Sharon Marcus - bio. Initiation to archival, bibliographical, and philological work, with hands-on sessions in libraries and archives, and designing of a research project.
HILI G8xxx. Aesthetics and the Philosophy of History: From Winckelmann to Nietzsche. 3 pts. Spring. Dorothea von Mücke - bio. The course offers a basic introduction to difficult philosophical texts from the traditions of the Enlightenment and Idealism that are at the background of much literary theory.
2. COURSES OFFERED AT EHESS:
L’exégèse biblique au Moyen Âge. Alain Boureau - bio
Géométrie, théorisation scientifique et philosophie de la nature. Claude Calame - bio
Histoire et littérature de la contre-révolution en Europe au XIXe siècle. Jordi Canal - bio
Morale des récits. Marion Carel - bio
Théories des images. Giovanni Careri - bio
Histoire des sciences de l’homme et de la société. Jacqueline Carroy - bio
Écritures du passé : visualisations, localisations. Jean-Pierre Cavaillé - bio
Sociohistoire des pratiques culturelles, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle. Roger Chartier - bio
Histoire des engagements intellectuels à l'époque contemporaine. Vincent Duclert - bio
Pratiques spirituelles, régimes discursifs et rapports sociaux à l'époque moderne. Pierre-Antoine Fabre - bio
Anthropologie de l’écriture. Béatrice Fraenkel - bio
Repenser le 19e siècle. Maurizio Gribaudi - bio
Recherches et pratiques historiographiques. François Hartog - bio
Folie et déraison à la Renaissance. Yves Hersant - bio
Ecriture et événement. Christian Jouhaud - bio
Temps et histoire : normes, concepts, expériences. Sabina Loriga - bio
Écritures et expériences du monde social dans la France du XIXe siècle. Judith Lyon-Caen - bio
Races, nations, arts (XIXe-XXe siècles). Eric Michaud - bio
Le travail intellectuel : histoire (1600-1900). Dinah Ribard - bio
Histoire et mémoire. Perspectives historiographiques. Jacques Revel - bio
Littérature et sacrifice, de l’Âge classique au XXIe siècle. Philippe Roger - bio
Récit, fiction, histoire. Jean-Marie Schaeffer - bio
Idéologies et pratiques juridiques de la race aux époques moderne et contemporaine. Silvia Sebastiani - bio
3. COURSES OFFERED AT ENS:
Introduction à l’histoire et à la philosophie des sciences. Anouk Barberousse - bio
Philologie et interprétation. Marie-Christine Bellosta - bio
Histoire de la critique et des théories littéraires depuis le romantisme. Dominique Combe - bio
Orientalismes : théories, représentations, échanges culturels, de 1750 à nos jours. Dominique Combe - bio
Littérature et morale à l’âge classique. Jean-Charles Darmon - bio
Textes anciens et milieux savants : du XVe au XVIIIe siècle. Didier Kahn - bio
Le monde des Lumières : histoire et historiographie du XVIIIe siècle. Antoine Lilti - bio
La construction de l’histoire littéraire. Michel Murat - bio and Marielle Macé - bio
De l’histoire du livre à l’étude des textes (XVIe – XVIIIe siècles). Isabelle Pantin - bio and Laurent Pinon - bio
Histoire de la rhétorique. Monique Trédé - bio and Isabelle Pantin - bio
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