Before Timothy McVeigh, Taliban, Al-Qaeda and ISIS/ISIL, Russia provided the world with visual imagery and vocabulary to refer to terror…
This seminar offers first-year students an introduction to the German-Jewish experience and the history of anti-semitism in Germany, from early…
This course examines concepts and representations of underworlds in literature and the visual arts from the ancient world to modernity….
This course deals with critical issues, in the broadest possible context, that dominated the twentieth century: the rise of fascism…
This seminar explores the “question of the animal” in the works of major Russian writers (Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov)…
The word “robot” was invented by Czech author Karel Čapek in 1920. Science fiction has had a long-running obsession with…
This course focuses on connections between language, histories of migration, and processes of identity formation as presented in literature, films,…
We will study fairy tales in the broader context of the history of childhood and practices of education and socialization….
This seminar deals in the broadest possible context with two critical issues that dominated the 20th century: the rise of…
This seminar explores the “question of the animal” in the works of major Russian writers (Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov)…