CURRENT AND UPCOMING COURSES AND SEMINARS
PAST COURSES AND SEMINARS
- Tales of Travel
(Spring 2014)
- War on Screen (Fall 2013)
- Adorno, Benjamin, Kracauer (Fall 2013)
- Un-Framed: Toward an Aesthetic of Contemporary Media Art and Culture (Spring 2013)
- Vertical Seminar: Modernism and Its Media (Fall 2012)
- Reading Culture: Style, Rhetoric, Analysis (Spring 2012)
- Aesthetic Negativity: Adorno, Benjamin, and Kracauer on Literature, Art, and Media (Fall 2011)
- Ecstasies of the Aesthetic: The Films of Werner Herzog, Peter Greenaway, and Julian Schnabel (Spring 2010)
- Split Screens: Weimar Cinema and Its Visions of Modernity (Fall 2009)
- Roll over Beethoven: Music and German Litertaure from Romanticism to the Present (Fall 2009)
- Reading Culture: Style, Rhetoric, Analysis (Spring 2009)
- German Literature and the Modern Era (Spring 2009)
- Walter Benjamin & Co (Fall 2008)
- Genre Cinema: The Art of Variation (Fall 2008)
- Reverse Angles: The Films on Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, and Wim Wenders (Fall 2008)
- Advanced German 302 (Spring 2008)
- German Cinema in the 21st Century (Spring 2008)
- The Prosthetic Eye: German Literature and Photography (Fall 2007)
- Modernisms: Literature, Art, and the Politics of the New (Fall 2007)
- The Aesthetics of the Interface: Media and the Arts as Windows onto the World (Spring 2007)
- Tales of Travel: Encounters with the Foreign in German Literature, Art, and Culture (Spring 2007)
- Paint It Black: Understanding American Film Noir (Spring 2007)
- On Beauty: Aesthetics and Its Discontents (Fall 2006)
- Aesthetic Negativity: Adorno, Benjamin, Kracauer and Marcuse on Literature and Art (Fall 2006)
- Artists into Politicans: German Culture and the Poetics of Power (Spring 2006)
- German Literature and the Modern Era (Spring 2006)
- Move On: Modernism and the Aesthetics of Motion (Fall 2005)
- Advanced German 302 (Fall 2005)
- Reverse Angles: The Films on Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, and Wim Wenders (Spring 2005)
- Advanced German 302 (Spring 2005)
- European Cinema Today:The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski, Lars von Trier, and Tom Tykwer (Spring 2005)
- M (Fall 2004)
- ‘Roll over Beethoven’: Music and German Literature from Romanticism to the Present (Fall 2004)
- Circa 1959 (Fall 2003)
- Time, Chance, Fate, History: The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski, Lars von Trier, and Tom Tykwer (Fall 2003)
- History of German Cinema (Spring 2003)
- Advanced German 302D (Spring 2003)
- Aesthetic Politics: Art, Power, and Modern Culture (Fall 2002)
- History of World Cinema (Fall 2002)
- Benjamin Remastered: From Mechancial Reproduction to the Digital Divide (Spring 2002)
- Paint It Black: Understanding Film Noir (MLA Program / U College, Spring 2002)
- Adanced German 302D (Spring 2002)
- History of World Cinema (Fall 2001)
- German 210 (Fall 2001)
- The Dark Mirror: Film Noir and the Exile of German Filmmakers in Hollywood (Spring 2001)
- Film / Nation / History (Fall 2000)
- Advanced German 302D (Fall 2000)
- Between Hitler and Hollywood: German Cinema in the Course of Time (Spring 2000)
- Germany Today: Politics, Culture, and Nationhood (Spring 1998)
- Advanced German: Language, Identity, Power (GER 302D, Spring 1998)
- Richard Wagner: Myth, Opera, and Politics (Fall 1997)
- Weimar Culture: Laboratory of Modernity (Spring 1997)
- Culture Industry: The Politics of Distraction (Fall 1996)
- Visual Culture, Spectatorship, and Virtual Reality: From Romanticism to Cyberpunk (Spring 1996)
- Progress, Power, and Popular Culture: Constructing Traditions in Modernity (Fall 1995)
- Genius and Nation: The Cult of Art and the Invention of Germany in the Nineteenth Century (Spring 1995)
- Remapping the Western: Transformations of a Hollywood Genre in German Film (Fall 1994)
