Comparative Literature Graduate Course Descriptions

Term:  

Fall Quarter

Dept Course No and Title Instructor
COM LIT (F26)210  THE LONG COLONIALJOHNSON, A.
The Long Colonial (Fall 2026)

Commenting her film Serpent Rain (co-produced with Arujuan Neimann) Denise Ferreira da Silva notes that ““The infrastructure of extraction in the present is part of an ongoing colonial infrastructure that has never changed.”  (1:21:31) This course aims first to return to some of the key texts of postcolonial studies (Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Dipesh Chakrabarty) which have seemingly fallen off the grid of contemporary discourse, to see if they still have something to tell us about what Ferreira da Silva calls ongoing colonial infrastructures. Second, we will explore the manifestation and logics of newer colonial formations, with a particular emphasis on thinkers from the Global South (including readings on settler colonialism, the cognitive plantation, necropolitics, extractivism and others). Following Ferreira da Silva’s clue and understanding such logics in terms of infrastructure takes us to an interrogation of what might have settled into impercipience, perceived simply as environment, the lineaments of an “engineered, configured, purposed world’ (The Invisible Committee): that is, what might no longer take on the explicit face of the colonial. What is gained (or lost) in articulating contemporary configurations of power with an older discourse grappling with previous formations of the colonial?
COM LIT (F26)210  ETHNIC STUDIESGAMBER, J.
CL 210: Critical Race Studies

This course provides an investigation of central approaches and concepts animating the study of race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity, understanding these categories of difference as inseparable from other axes of social difference. We will apply interdisciplinary and intersectional frameworks to illuminate how these concepts have come to emerge and cohere within a number of familiar and less familiar socio-cultural and historical contexts. We will consider how racial and ethnic differentiation as processes have bolstered global labor regimes and imperial expansion projects; parsed, managed and regulated populations; governed sexed and gendered logics of subject and social formation and finally, opened and constrained axes of self-understanding, political organization and social belonging.
COM LIT (F26)280A  PROFESSIONALIZATIONAMIRAN, E.
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COM LIT (F26)290  READING&CONFERENCEAMIRAN, E.
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COM LIT (F26)290  READING&CONFERENCECARROLL, A.
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COM LIT (F26)290  READING&CONFERENCERADHAKRISHNAN, R.
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COM LIT (F26)290  READING&CONFERENCEJOHNSON, A.
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COM LIT (F26)290  READING&CONFERENCEMOR, L.
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COM LIT (F26)290  READING&CONFERENCENEWMAN, J.
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COM LIT (F26)290  READING&CONFERENCERAHIMIEH, N.
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COM LIT (F26)290  READING&CONFERENCESCHWAB, G.
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COM LIT (F26)290  READING&CONFERENCETERADA, R.
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COM LIT (F26)290  READING&CONFERENCEGIANNOPOULOU, Z.
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COM LIT (F26)290  READING&CONFERENCEHARRIES, M.
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COM LIT (F26)291  GUIDED READINGABBAS, A.
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COM LIT (F26)291  GUIDED READINGAMIRAN, E.
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COM LIT (F26)291  GUIDED READINGCARROLL, A.
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COM LIT (F26)291  GUIDED READINGFARBMAN, H.
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COM LIT (F26)291  GUIDED READINGGAMBER, J.
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COM LIT (F26)291  GUIDED READINGGOLDBERG, D.
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COM LIT (F26)291  GUIDED READINGJOHNSON, A.
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COM LIT (F26)291  GUIDED READINGMOR, L.
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COM LIT (F26)291  GUIDED READINGNEWMAN, J.
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COM LIT (F26)291  GUIDED READINGRAHIMIEH, N.
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COM LIT (F26)291  GUIDED READINGSCHWAB, G.
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COM LIT (F26)291  GUIDED READINGTERADA, R.
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COM LIT (F26)291  GUIDED READINGTHIONG'O, N.
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COM LIT (F26)291  GUIDED READINGSTAFF
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COM LIT (F26)292  TEACHING PRACTICUMJOHNSON, A.
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COM LIT (F26)298  PRE-DISS RESEARCHABBAS, A.
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COM LIT (F26)298  PRE-DISS RESEARCHAMIRAN, E.
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COM LIT (F26)298  PRE-DISS RESEARCHCARROLL, A.
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COM LIT (F26)298  PRE-DISS RESEARCHFARBMAN, H.
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COM LIT (F26)298  PRE-DISS RESEARCHGOLDBERG, D.
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COM LIT (F26)298  PRE-DISS RESEARCHJARRATT, S.
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COM LIT (F26)298  PRE-DISS RESEARCHJOHNSON, A.
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COM LIT (F26)298  PRE-DISS RESEARCHMOR, L.
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COM LIT (F26)298  PRE-DISS RESEARCHNEWMAN, J.
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COM LIT (F26)298  PRE-DISS RESEARCHRAHIMIEH, N.
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COM LIT (F26)298  PRE-DISS RESEARCHSCHWAB, G.
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COM LIT (F26)298  PRE-DISS RESEARCHTERADA, R.
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COM LIT (F26)298  PRE-DISS RESEARCHTHIONG'O, N.
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COM LIT (F26)298  PRE-DISS RESEARCHMALABOU, C.
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COM LIT (F26)298  PRE-DISS RESEARCHSTAFF
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COM LIT (F26)299  DISSERTATN RESEARCHABBAS, A.
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COM LIT (F26)299  DISSERTATN RESEARCHAMIRAN, E.
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COM LIT (F26)299  DISSERTATN RESEARCHCARROLL, A.
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COM LIT (F26)299  DISSERTATN RESEARCHFARBMAN, H.
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COM LIT (F26)299  DISSERTATN RESEARCHGAMBER, J.
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COM LIT (F26)299  DISSERTATN RESEARCHGOLDBERG, D.
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COM LIT (F26)299  DISSERTATN RESEARCHJARRATT, S.
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COM LIT (F26)299  DISSERTATN RESEARCHJOHNSON, A.
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COM LIT (F26)299  DISSERTATN RESEARCHMOR, L.
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COM LIT (F26)299  DISSERTATN RESEARCHNEWMAN, J.
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COM LIT (F26)299  DISSERTATN RESEARCHRAHIMIEH, N.
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COM LIT (F26)299  DISSERTATN RESEARCHSCHWAB, G.
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COM LIT (F26)299  DISSERTATN RESEARCHTERADA, R.
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COM LIT (F26)299  DISSERTATN RESEARCHSTEINTRAGER, J.
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COM LIT (F26)299  DISSERTATN RESEARCHLONG, M.
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COM LIT (F26)299  DISSERTATN RESEARCHCOLMENARES GON, D.
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COM LIT (F26)299  DISSERTATN RESEARCHSTAFF
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COM LIT (F26)399  UNIVERSITY TEACHINGFARBMAN, H.
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