Tag: Literature

Courses

Realism
New York
Christine Smallwood
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Literature
Emerson and Thoreau: American Transcendentalism
New York
Christine Smallwood
Wednesday, 7-9pm
  • Literature
  • Philosophy
Queer Becomings: Woolf, Stein and Modernist Experiments with Time
New York
Pearl Brilmyer
Monday, 7-9pm
  • Feminism
  • Literature
  • Queer Studies
Marcel Proust: Swann’s Way
New York
Dora Zhang
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Literature
Another Country: James Baldwin’s New York
New York
Adeola Enigbokan
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Literature
The Writer, the Executor, and the Critic: The Case of Kafka, Brod, and Benjamin
New York
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Critical Theory
  • Literature
George Eliot’s Middlemarch: Awakening Consciousness
New York
Christine Smallwood
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Literature
Making and Unmaking Worlds: Genre Fiction and Theory
New York
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Thursday, 6:30-8:30pm
  • Critical Theory
  • Literature
Virginia Woolf: Embodiment and Novel Experiments
New York
Rebecca Ariel Porte
Sunday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Literature
Camus and The Stranger: From Existentialism to Post-Colonialism
New York
Elizabeth Marcus
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Literature
  • Post-colonialism

Events

Herman Melville, Bartleby, and the Literature of Wall Street
Days of Learning
Maeve Adams
January 24, 2016, 11am-6pm
  • Literature
The Kafka Diaries: A Reading and Conversation with Translator Ross Benjamin
January 17, 2023, 7:00pm EST
  • Kafka
  • Literature
  • Translation
Occasional Evenings: Life Is Everywhere—Lucy Ives in Conversation
March 23, 2023, 7:00pm ET
  • Literature
Occasional Evenings: Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher — Film Screening and Discussion
February 29, 2024, 7:00pm ET
  • Film
  • Literature
Occasional Evenings: Eyes Wide Shut — a Screening and Discussion
April 25, 2025, 7:00pm ET
  • Film
  • Literature
Occasional Evenings: The Swimmer — a Screening and Discussion
June 30, 2026, 7:00pm ET
  • American Studies
  • Film
  • Literature
The Cavalier: an Evening with Nathalie Quintane and Jonathan Larson
October 23, 2026, 7:00-8:30PM
  • French literature
  • Literature
  • Translation

News

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 84: Paradise Lost and Its Revolutionary Afterlives — Orlando Reade in Conversation
Faculty Spotlight: Bohemia Is An Imaginary City — Jude Webre on Dawn Powell, the Lady Wit, and the American Mid-Century
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 81.5: Romeo + Juliet — a Brief Film Guide
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 80: On Realism, World-Building, Violence, and Desire — Joseph Earl Thomas, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Vinson Cunningham, and Paige Sweet in Conversation
On Anti-Authoritarian Uprisings in Bangladesh, and the Twin Devils of Debt and Work
Faculty Writing: On the Critic as Autobiographer, and Miranda July’s All Fours
Faculty Writing: On Constance Debré’s Novels of Transformation, and Photographs of Women Reading
Faculty Writing: On Chantal Akerman’s Proust, and Ridley Scott’s Napoleon
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 72: At Year’s End with the Angel of History — 2023 in Review
Faculty Writing: On Alexandre Kojève Reading Hegel, and Bret Easton Ellis Writing Bret Easton Ellis