Comparative Thought and Literature

2026–2027

72 courses

AS.300.102Great Minds
AS.300.209Dilemmas
AS.300.215Law and Literature
AS.300.216Heart Matters
AS.300.222Acting by Accident in Literature and Film
AS.300.227Business Fictions
AS.300.229Lu Xun: Literary, Comparative, Philosophical
AS.300.307The Theory of Everything
AS.300.309Heidegger’s "Being and Time"
AS.300.311God and Modern Literature
AS.300.313Myself Through the Years: Women and the Personal Essay
AS.300.315Authoritarianism, Freedom, and the Arts
AS.300.316Art and Thought of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Peripheries
AS.300.319Fictions at Work
AS.300.322Lu Xun And His Times: China’s Long 20th Century And Beyond
AS.300.323Shakespeare and Ibsen
AS.300.325Origins of Postwar Japanese and Japanophone Literatures
AS.300.328Contemporary Sinophone Literature and Film
AS.300.330Modern East Asian Literatures Across Boundaries
AS.300.334From Catharsis to Pathosformel: Forms of Affect in Art and Life
AS.300.335Contemporary Opera and Literature: Identity, Society, Politics
AS.300.336Forms of Moral Community: The Contemporary World Novel
AS.300.337The Tragic Tradition
AS.300.338Saharan Imaginations
AS.300.341Transwar Japanese and Japanophone Literatures
AS.300.346Revolution in Theatre, 1880-1930
AS.300.349Capitalism and Tragedy: from the 18th Century to Climate Change
AS.300.351The Concept of Time
AS.300.353Ibsen, Strindberg, Beckett, Brecht
AS.300.355Literature and the Idea of Nature
AS.300.372Children’s Literature and the Self: From Fairy Tales to Science-Fiction
AS.300.399Cinema and Philosophy
AS.300.400Anti-nostalgia in Literature and Film
AS.300.401Comparative Late- and Post-Cold War Cultures in China, the USSR, and Beyond
AS.300.402What is a Person? Humans, Corporations, Robots, Trees
AS.300.405Illness across Cultures: The Ethics of Pain in Literature and Film
AS.300.409Modernist Animacies and the Politics of Wonder
AS.300.412Indigenous Ecologies: Thinking with Indigenous Worldviews
AS.300.414Comparative Thought: Pass-words Across Zhuangzi, Thoreau, and Heidegger
AS.300.418The Modernist Novel: James, Woolf, and Joyce
AS.300.421Introduction to Concepts and Problems of Modern Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Critical Theory
AS.300.429Literature of the Everyday: The Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel
AS.300.441Thoreau and Whitman: The Concept of Influence
AS.300.501Independent Study
AS.300.508Honors Seminar
AS.300.603Emerson, Baldwin, Cavell and the Unfinished Promise of America: Then and Now
AS.300.604Cicero and Deleuze
AS.300.605Late Heidegger
AS.300.609Old/New Questions: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Scholarship in the Humanities
AS.300.611Schopenhauer’s ‘The World as Will and Representation’
AS.300.614Comparative Thought: Pass-words Across Zhuangzi, Thoreau, and Heidegger
AS.300.616Heidegger’s Being and Time
AS.300.617Philosophy and Literature in Either/Or
AS.300.618What is a Person? Humans, Corporations, Robots, Trees
AS.300.621Thinking with Accidents
AS.300.623Modern American Poetry: Engaging Forms
AS.300.628Introduction to Concepts and Problems of Modern Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Critical Theory
AS.300.629Theory, Now and Then: Autonomy, Form, Critique
AS.300.631On Literature and Ethics
AS.300.633Departmental Seminar
AS.300.634Contemporary Opera and Literature: Identity, Society, Politics
AS.300.636Forms of Moral Community: The Contemporary World Novel
AS.300.647Comparative Methods and Theory: Formalism and Materialism (Graduate Pro-Seminar)
AS.300.800Independent Study
AS.300.802Independent Study Field Exam
AS.300.803Dissertation Research
AS.300.804Dissertation Research
AS.300.805Literary Pedagogy
AS.300.810Directed Readings
AS.300.812Graduate Research
AS.300.813Teaching Assistantship
AS.300.891Summer Research