Lafayette, The Princess of Cleves
Saikaku, Five Women Who Loved Love
Dream of the Red Chamber
19th century
Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Flaubert, Mme Bovary
Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina or War and Peace
Melville, Moby-Dick
Jorge Isaacs, Maria
Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro
20th century
Joyce, Ulysses
Woolf, Between the Acts
Proust, Swann's Way
Mann, Magic Mountain
Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom
Carpentier, The Lost Steps
Lispector, The Hour of the Star
Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Rushdie, Midnight's Children
Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Kane, Ambiguous Adventure
Mahfouz, Cairo Trilogy [any of three]
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Makioka Sisters
Kawabata Yasunari, Snow Country
Film [optional] (5)
Lumière, Méliès, and Griffith, Selected Short
Films [1895-1915]
Wiene, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [1920]
Micheaux, Body and Soul [1924]
Murnau, Sunrise [1927]
Eisenstein, October [1927]
Renoir, Rules of the Game [1939]
Welles, Citizen Kane [1941]
Rossellini, Rome Open City [1945]
Kurosawa, Rashomon [1950]
Godard, Breathless [1960]
Ray, World of Apu [1960]
Hitchcock, Psycho [1960]
Buñuel, Viridiana [1961]
Varda, Cleo from 5 to 7 [1962]
Bergman, Persona [1966]
Sembene, Black Girl [1966]
Alea, Memories of Underdevelopment [1968]
Chen Kaige, Yellow Earth [1984]
(January 2002)
FACULTY AND ADVISERS
The following listing, for the information of our students, is intended to make clear the major areas of competence and interest of this faculty.
April Alliston
Languages: French, German, Ancient Greek
Areas of Interest:
The novel, its history and theory, from Greek romance to contemporary fiction
18th - century literature
Literary theory, especially feminist and narrative theory
The Gothic, sentimental, and Romantic novel
Enlightenment and romanticism
Women and authorship
History and literature
Life writing
Leonard Barkan
Languages: Italian, Latin, French, German
Areas of Interest:
Shakespeare and English Renaissance Literature
Italian Renaissance Art
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
Relations between Literature and the Visual Arts
Latin Literature and the Survival of Antiquity
Drama and Theater
Food, Wine, and the Arts
David Bellos
Languages: French, German, Russian
Areas of Interest:
Nineteenth-century French fiction and criticism
Modern and contemporary French fiction
The OuLiPo
Translation
Sandra Bermann
Languages: Italian, French, Latin
Areas of Interest:
Italian-English Renaissance relations
Literary theory
The Lyric
Linguistics and structural analysis
Women & Gender
Historiography & Literary Theory
Marina Brownlee
Languages:
Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Modern Greek
Areas of Interest:
Medieval and Early Modern Spanish and Comparative Literature and Culture
Literary Theory, Gender Theory, Issues of Periodization
Claudia Brodsky
Languages: German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Areas of Interest:
The Enlightenment and Romanticism
Philosophy and literary theory
Aesthetics and Epistemology
Spanish and English baroque
Latin American literature
Ben Conisbee Baer
Languages: Bengali, German, French
Areas of Interest:
