Williams College
Past Comparative Literature Core Courses
This is a list prepared for comparative literature majors, of courses that have been approved
for comparative literature core credit in past semesters. These courses will generally satisfy
core requirements in future semesters as well. (Non-core elective courses are not listed here.)
Other courses may be approved for core credit by your advisor if they are 1) genuinely
comparative (across cultures or media, for example) or 2) treat primarily literary theory.
If you take more than one gateway course (COMP 110 and 111) or more than one iteration of
senior seminar (401), the second gateway and/or the second senior seminar can be used to
satisfy core requirements.
Fall 2014
COMP111
ENGL 113
COMP117
COMP151
COMP202
COMP239
COMP245
COMP250
COMP261
COMP263
COMP280
COMP283
COMP312
COMP339
COMP340
COMP341
COMP358
COMP365
COMP367
COMP376
COMP392
COMP395
COMP401
COMP407
Nature of Narrative (Bolton)
Banned Books (Taylor)
Intro to Cultural Theory (Thorne)
Intro to Theatre (Holzapfel)
Modern Drama (Pethica)
The Novel in Theory (Case)
Black Asia (Schleitwiler)
From Adam to Noah (Dekel)
Postcolonial Narratives (Eqeiq)
Environmental Lit of Latin America Tutorial (J.French)
History of the Book (Dekel & Nugent)
Great Big Books (Tifft)
Francographic Islands (Pieprzak) – conducted in French
Race Gender Performance (Huang)
Literature and Psychoanalysis (Newman)
Cinema of Work and Migration (Druxes)
Impossible India: South Asian Lit (Raza Kolb)
Fanaticism (Sokolsky)
Documentary Fictions (Rosenheim)
Silent Film (Tifft)
Wonder (Pye)
Signs of History (Johnston)
Senior Seminar: Children's Lit (van de Stadt)
Literature, Justice & Community (Pye)
Spring 2014
COMP110
COMP200
COMP209
Introduction to Comparative Literature (Bolton)
European Modernism (Bell-Villada)
Dolls, Puppets and Automatons (Kone)
Comparative Literature Core Courses
COMP217
COMP230
COMP242
COMP243
COMP247
COMP249
COMP253
COMP272
COMP284
COMP307
COMP309
COMP316
COMP319
COMP323
COMP325
COMP327
COMP330
COMP334
COMP335
COMP346
COMP349
COMP351
COMP392
ENGL423
Ancient Wisdom Literature (Dekel)
Making Fun at Rome (Moodie)
Americans Abroad Tutorial (D, W) (Fox)
Modern Women Writers & The City (W) (Druxes)
Gender, Sexuality, and the Modern Stage Tutorial (D,W) (Holzapfel)
Love and Revolution (W) (Tifft)
Literature from the Global South (W) (Eqeiq)
Father Abraham Tutorial (W) (Darrow)
Bildung: Literature of Self-Discovery (Johnston)
Arthurian Literature (Knopp)
Diaspora and Displacement (D) (Hernandez)
Images
of Law (W) (A. Hirsch)
African American Performance (Braggs)
Reason and Unreason Tutorial (W) (Newman)
Joyce, Woolf, and Proust (Tifft)
Theory after Postmodernism (Josephson)
New Orleans as Muse (Brothers)
Imagining Joseph (W) (Just)
Manners, Modernity, and the Novel Tutorial (W) (McWeeny)
Questioning Cultural Self in Literature (W) (Vargas)
Modernity and the Modernist Imagination Tutorial(W) (Rhie)
The Global Avant Garde (Raza Kolb)
Wonder (Pye)
History in Theory (Sokolsky)
Fall 2013
COMP 111
COMP 115
COMP 117
COMP 151
COMP 202
ENGL 209
COMP 220
COMP 236
COMP 237
COMP 239
COMP 240
ENGL 311
COMP 315
COMP 321
COMP 324
COMP 366
COMP 380
The Nature of Narrative (Newman)
Rumble in the Jungle (Raza Kolb)
Introduction to Cultural Theory (Thorne)
Introduction to Theatre (Holzapfel)
Modern Drama (Pethica)
Theories of Language and Literature (Thorne)
Monsters on the Margins (Moodie)
Post-9/11 Film (Ladygina)
Gender & Desire 1200-1600 (Knopp)
The Novel in Theory (McWeeny)
Introduction to Literary Theory (Pye)
Theorizing Shakespeare (Pye)
Medieval East & West (Knopp)
Music in Afro American Lit (Braggs)
The Orientalist Sublime (Raza Kolb)
Romantic Literature (Johnston)
20th-Century Literary & Critical Theory (C.Bolton)
Comparative Literature Core Courses
Spring 2013
COMP104
COMP110
COMP156
COMP206
COMP208
COMP229
COMP223
COMP237
COMP240
COMP244
COMP248
COMP259
COMP270
COMP281
COMP304
COMP308
COMP309
COMP326
COMP342
COMP403
Critical Theatre & Performance (D) (Holzapfel)
Intro to Comparative Lit (Cassiday)
Looking at Jazz (D) (W) (Braggs)
Book of Job & Joban Literature (W) (Dekel)
The Culture of Carnival (D) (Brothers)
Japanese Society, 800s-1800s (D) (Siniawer & Bolton)
Migrants at the Borders: Arabic and Latin American Cultural Studies (Vargas)
Gender & Desire 1200-1600 (D) (W) (Knopp)
Intro to Literary Theory (W) (Sokolsky)
The Experience of Sexuality (Cowden)
Plays and Performance (Baker-White)
Adultery in 19th-Cent Novel Tutorial (W) (Cassiday)
Performing Greece and Rome (Hoppin)
Photography and Memory (Collenberg)
Gender, Genre, and Sexuality (D) (Sullivan)
Everyday Life in Lit & Film (Druxes)
Exile ,Homecoming &Promised Land Tutorial (D) (W) (Hammerschlag)
Queer Temporalities Tutorial (W) (Hidalgo)
Psychoanalysis, Gender & Sexuality (Pye)
Edward Said (Wang)
Fall 2012
COMP111
COMP117
COMP139
COMP223
COMP228
COMP231
COMP280
COMP282
COMP283
COMP291
COMP301
COMP307
COMP313
COMP329
COMP333
COMP335
COMP345
The Nature of Narrative (van de Stadt)
Introduction to Cultural Theory (Thorne)
Metafiction (Rosenheim)
Comparative Middle Eastern &Latin American Cultural Studies (Vargas)
Modern Arabic Literature (Naaman years only)
Postmodernism Tutorial (C.Bolton)
The Borders of Literature (Bruhn)
The Ultimate City: Immigrant NY (Klots)
Great Big Books (Tifft)
Encounters in Jewish Narrative (Hasan-Rokem)
Race and Abstraction (Wang)
Arthurian Literature (Knopp)
Gender, Race, Beauty, Power (Cepeda)
Literary Theory &Ordinary Language (Rhie)
Narrative Strategies Tutorial (Ali)
Manners, Modernity, and the Novel Tutorial (McWeeny)
Museums &the Politics of Memory (Pieprzak)
Comparative Literature Core Courses
COMP352
COMP355
COMP401
Literature of Exile (Fox)
Contemporary Drama &Performance (Holzapfel)
Senior Seminar: The Art of Translation (Dekel)
Spring 2012
COMP104
COMP106
COMP110
COMP139
COMP202
COMP211
COMP214
COMP223
COMP238
COMP239
COMP240
COMP243
COMP248
COMP283
COMP294
COMP300
COMP3??
COMP316
COMP319
COMP343
COMP356
COMP359
COMP370
Critical Theatre & Performance (D) (Holzapfel)
Happiness (W) (Bell)
Intro to Comparative Literature (Bolton)
Metafiction (W) (Rosenheim)
Modern Drama (Pethica)
Terrorism and Literature (W) (Collenberg)
Moses (Dekel)
Middle Eastern and Latin American Cultural Studies (Vargas)
Comedy/Tragedy (W) (Kleiner)
The Novel in Theory (W) (McWeeny)
Intro to Literary Theory (W) (Davis)
Modern Women Writers & The City (Druxes)
Plays and Performance (Eppel)
Great Big Books (W) (Tifft)
Tutorial: Philosophy & Narrative Fiction (W) (Mladenovic)
Shakespeare and Freud (Bundtzen)
Voice and Sexuality in Afrodiasporic Women's Literature (Sullivan)
The Transformative Horror Film (W) (Shepard)
African American Performance (Braggs)
Modern Critical Theory (Sokolsky)
Tutorial: Feeling Queer (D) (W) (Kent)
Latinas/os and the Media (D) (W) (Cepeda)
Museums & French Imperialism (Pieprzak)
Fall 2011
COMP 111
COMP 117
COMP 237
COMP 241
COMP 312
COMP 315
COMP 321
COMP 333T:
COMP 340
COMP 392
COMP401
The Nature of Narrative (W) (Cassiday)
Introduction to Cultural Theory (W) (Thorne)
Gender & Desire 1200-1600 (D) (W) (Knopp)
Performing Race: From Shakespeare to Spike Lee (D) (Erickson)
Francographic Islands (D) (Pieprzak) (taught in French)
Medieval East & West: Travel, Holy War, Storytelling (D) (Knopp)
Groovin' the Written Word: Music in African American Literature (Braggs)
Studio Art Tutorial: Narrative Strategies (Ali)
Literature and Psychoanalysis (W) (Newman)
Wonder (Pye)
Sr. Seminar. Sublime Confusion: A Survey of Critical Theory (Bolton)
Comparative Literature Core Courses
SPRING 2011
COMP 111
COMP 131
COMP 200
COMP 208
COMP 217
COMP 240
COMP 248
ENGL 256
COMP 260
COMP 300
COMP 324
COMP 329
COMP 342
COMP 350T
COMP 356
The Nature of Narrative (B. Kieffer)
Vertigo and Verticality (Schleitwiler)
European Modernism and its Discontents (Bell-Villada)
The Culture of Carnival (Brothers)
Ancient Wisdom Literature (Dekel)
Introduction of Literary Theory (Davis)
Modern Theater: Plays and Performance (Bucky and Baker-White)
Culture & Empire (Thorne)
Reading Reading: Intorduction to the Qur’an and Islam (Darrow)
Shakespeare and Freud (Bundtzen)
Auteur Cinema and the Very Long Film (Bundtzen)
Contemporary World Novel (Limon)
Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexuality (Pye)
The Problem of Modernity and the Modernist Imagination (Rhie)
The Human Face in the Modern Imagination (Rhie)
FALL 2010
COMP 111
COMP 117
COMP 139
COMP 202
COMP 234
COMP 239
COMP 241
COMP 250
COMP 315
COMP 316T
COMP 320T
COMP 344
COMP 401
The Nature of Narrative (van de Stadt)
Introduction to Cultural Theory (Thorne)
Metafiction (Rosenheim)
Modern Drama (Pethica)
Modern Japanese and Korean Literature (Floyd)
Symbolic Landscapes (French)
Performing Race (Erickson)
From Adam to Noah (Dekel)
Medieval Encounters East and West (Knopp)
Inscrutable Evil, or the Transformative Horror Film (Shepard)
Enchantment and the Origins of Poetry (Dekel)
From Hermeneutics to Post-Coloniality and Beyond (Dreyfus)
Senior Seminar: Representing the Unrepresentable (Newman)
Spring 2010
COMP 111
COMP 206
COMP 213
COMP 232
COMP 243
COMP 248
COMP 270
The Nature of Narrative (Bolton)
The Book of Job and Joban Literature (Dekel)
Reading Jesus, Writing Gospels (Buell)
Gender and Desire (Knopp)
Modern Women Writers and the City (Druxes)
The Modern Theatre: Plays and Performance (Baker-White)
Performing Greece and Rome (Hoppin and Bucky)
Comparative Literature Core Courses
COMP 343
COMP 350
ENGL 416
ENGL 421
Modern Critical Theory (Pye)
Problems of Modernity and the Modernist Imagination (Rhie)
Adorno (Thorne)
Fanaticism (Sokolsky)