Courses

Spring 2024
Translation, Migration, Culture (SA)
Subject associations
TRA 400 / COM 409 / HUM 400

This course will explore the crucial connections between migration, language, and translation. Drawing on texts from a range of genres and disciplines - from memoir and fiction to scholarly work in translation studies, migration studies, political science, anthropology, and sociology - we will focus on how language and translation affect the lives of those who move through and settle in other cultures, and how, in turn, human mobility affects language and modes of belonging.

Instructors
Karen R. Emmerich
Spring 2024
Women, Writing, Greece: From Sappho to Virginia Woolf and Beyond (CD or LA)
Subject associations
CLA 229 / COM 230 / GSS 234 / HLS 229

This course explores the history of engagement by women writers and artists with the place, idea, and myths of Greece. We first read ancient female writers, preeminently Sappho, and examine the representation of women in ancient texts; we then trace the strategies through which "Greece" allows later women writers to assert their authority and authorship, question gender hierarchies and political/sociocultural paradigms, and lay a claim to the classical tradition. We consider how ancient writing affects contemporary understandings of identity and gender, and how modern works, from novels to plays to films, shape our view of the ancient world.

Instructors
Katerina Stergiopoulou