COM LIT Course Descriptions for 2026-2027

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COM LIT 210ETHNIC 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 210PSYCHOANALYSIS&MEMSCHWAB, G.CL 210 Psychoanalysis and Memory

Off. Hrs. 1:00 – 2:00 and by appointment.

In this course, we will discuss a selection of foundational texts on psychoanalysis and memory, addressing issues including repressed memory, internal objects and unconscious phantasy, unintegrated experiences, the “untought known,” the transgenerational transmission of memory, the crypt, hauntology and the relationship between memory and language.

Selection of Texts

1. Sigmund Freud, The Unconscious; Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Moses and Monotheism

2. Melanie Klein, Guilt, Shame and Reparation (Selections)

3. Donald D. Winnicott, Fear of Breakdown

4. Christopher Bollas, The Shadow of the Object (focus on the concept of the “unthought known”

5. Jacqueline Rose, States of Fantasy

6. Jacques Lacan, The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis

7. Abraham/Torok, The Shell and the Kernel: “The Phantom of the Dead”; “Mourning or Melancholia: Introjection versus Incorporation”; “The Illness of Mourning and the Fantasy of the Exquisite Corpse.”

8. Derrida, Specters of Marx (Selection)
COM LIT 280APROFESSIONALIZATIONAMIRAN, E.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCEHARRIES, M.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCEGIANNOPOULOU, Z.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCETERADA, R.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCESCHWAB, G.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCERAHIMIEH, N.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCENEWMAN, J.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCEMOR, L.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCEJOHNSON, A.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCERADHAKRISHNAN, R.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCECARROLL, A.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCEAMIRAN, E.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGRAHIMIEH, N.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGSCHWAB, G.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGTERADA, R.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGTHIONG'O, N.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGSTAFF
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGNEWMAN, J.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGMOR, L.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGJOHNSON, A.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGABBAS, A.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGAMIRAN, E.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGCARROLL, A.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGFARBMAN, H.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGGAMBER, J.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGGOLDBERG, D.
COM LIT 292TEACHING PRACTICUMJOHNSON, A.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHRAHIMIEH, N.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHSCHWAB, G.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHTERADA, R.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHTHIONG'O, N.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHMALABOU, C.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHSTAFF
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHNEWMAN, J.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHMOR, L.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHAMIRAN, E.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHCARROLL, A.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHFARBMAN, H.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHGOLDBERG, D.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHJARRATT, S.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHJOHNSON, A.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHABBAS, A.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHRAHIMIEH, N.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHSCHWAB, G.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHTERADA, R.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHSTEINTRAGER, J.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHLONG, M.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHCOLMENARES GON, D.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHSTAFF
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHNEWMAN, J.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHMOR, L.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHABBAS, A.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHAMIRAN, E.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHCARROLL, A.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHFARBMAN, H.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHGOLDBERG, D.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHJARRATT, S.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHJOHNSON, A.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHGAMBER, J.
COM LIT 399UNIVERSITY TEACHINGFARBMAN, H.