2017-2018 University Catalog archived
Literature in Translation (LIT)
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Literature in Translation courses comprise offerings in global literature taught in English. All LIT courses meet the FDR requirement in literature (HL).
Curricular Coordinator: Domnica Radulescu
Faculty
First date is the year in which the faculty member began regular faculty service at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.
Jeffrey C. Barnett, Ph.D.—(1989)-2007
Professor of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Anna Brodsky, Ph.D.—(1994)-2016
Professor of Russian
Ph.D., Yale University
Kevin M. Crotty, J.D., Ph.D.—(1999)-2004
J. Donald Childress Professor of Classics and Professor of Law
Ph.D., Yale University
Hongchu Fu, Ph.D.—(2002)-2011
Professor of East Asian Languages
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Janet Ikeda, Ph.D.—(1999)-2002
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages
Ph.D., Princeton University
Jeffrey L. Kosky, Ph.D.—(2003)-2013
Professor of Religion
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Richard G. Marks, Ph.D.—(1984)-1996
Jessie Ball duPont Professor of Religion
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Domnica V. Radulescu, Ph.D.—(1992)-2003
Edwin A. Morris Professor of Comparative Literatures
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Yanhong Zhu, Ph.D.—(2009)-2015
Associate Professor of Chinese
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Courses
LIT 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year standing. Completion of FW FDR requirement. First-year seminar.
Winter 2018, LIT 180-01: FS: Jinn and Ghosts: Poetry, Madness, and Memory in Modern Arabic Literature (3). First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year standing. Completion of FDR writing requirement (FW). This course traces the trope of the jinn in Arabic literature: from the place of jinn in the Qur’an and Islamic tradition, through their entanglement with poetic inspiration, to their reincarnation in modern works of literature. More specifically, we ask why do modern authors call up demons and resurrect ghosts, and what political and cultural work these beings, which are neither human nor divine, not quite living and not quite dead, are required to do. Consequently, we explore the manner jinn are latched onto modern debates on personal and collective trauma, memory, madness, relations between East and West (or North and South), political violence, gender difference, and virtual realities. (HL) Alon.
LIT 219 - Augustine and the Literature of Self, Soul, and Synapses
(REL 219) FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. A careful reading of the depiction of the restless soul in Augustine’s Confessions is followed by study of fictional, philosophical, religious, and/or scientific literature. Students reflect on the state of the soul in a world made of selves or the fate of the self in a soulless world … and whether there might be other options Kosky.
LIT 256 - Trans-American Identity: Images from the Americas
(LACS 256) FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. Counts toward the literature distribution requirement for the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. A multi-genre survey of representative literary works from the Americas, defined as those regions that encompass Latin American and Caribbean cultures. In particular the course uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how exemplary artists from the region have crafted images to interpret and represent their American reality. Selected narrative, film, and poetic works by Spanish-American (Neruda, Garcia Marquez, Rulfo, and Carpentier), Francophone (Danticat), Lusophone (Amado), and Anglophone authors (Walcott, Brathwaite, and Naipaul), among others. Barnett.
LIT 273 - Modern Jewish Literature in Translation
(REL 273) FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. Readings in the works of 20th-century Jewish authors, studied as literary responses to the historical and religious crises of modern Jewish life in Europe, the United States, and Israel. Marks.
LIT 310 - Representations of Women, Gender and Sexuality in World Literature
(WGSS 310) FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. This course examines a plethora of literary texts chosen from across historical periods from antiquity, through early modern times, to the modern and postmodern era and across several national traditions and cultural landscapes. Its main intellectual objective is to sensitize students to the ways in which women and gender have been represented in literary texts of various genres and to help them develop specific analytic skills in order to discover and evaluate the interconnections between the treatment of women in society and their artistic reflections in works of literature. Radulescu.
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