Graduate Courses

Winter 2025

Classics (CLA) 200A: Approaches to the Classical Past 

French (FRE) 207A: 18th-Century Literature: Philosophies - "Decadence and the Memoir"

  • (CRN: 41461); T 2:10-5; Olson 144

  • André Naffis-Sahely

    Course Description: This course will consider one of the world’s longest and most controversial autobiographies, Giacomo Casanova’s Histoire de ma vie, and place the infamous Venetian conman in the context of his time, with an emphasis on eighteenth century gender politics, morality and philosophy.

History (HIS) 201Q: Cross-Cultural Women's History 

  • (CRN: 41805); W 3:10-6; SSandH 4202

  • Lisa Masterson 

    Course Description:  This year’s 201Q will examine the diverse ways that gender has shaped colonial projects, colonial subjecthood, and post-colonial nation building. Readings will cover North America, Latin America, Africa, and Asia and will explore a range of themes through comparative and transnational frameworks. These topics include knowledge and power, suffrage and citizenship, masculinity, multiracial identities, sexuality and reproduction, anticolonial revolution, and post-colonial reparations.

    Tentative Reading List

  • Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (Verso, 1983).
  • Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico (UC, 2003).
  • Antoinette Burton, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915. (UNC, 1994).
  • Tanya Harmer, Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America (UNC, 2020).
  • Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship (Cambridge, 2022).
  • Adria L. Imada Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire (Duke, 2012).
  • Edward Said, Orientalism (Verso, 1978)
  • Tiffany A. Sippial, Celia Sánchez Manduley: The Life and Legacy of a Cuban Revolutionary (UNC, 2003).
  • Elizabeth Thompson, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (Columbia, 2000).
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Philosophy (PHI) 290: History of Philosophy