These courses allow students to examine common literary/cultural movements and thematic and stylistic links across national cultures and ethnicities (staple courses include E310 Narratives From Around the World, E207 Medieval Literatures, E338 Magical Realism and the South, and E255 The Jewish Narrative,) as well as to study in depth the specificities of particular national and ethnic literary and film cultures (for example, E373 Italian Literature and Film and E398 Chinese Cinema).
E201 The Bible as Narrative Art
E202 The Literatures of Ancient Greece and Rome
E203 The Comedy of Dante Alighieri
E204 Dante and Boccacio
E207 Medieval Literatures
E209 Epic
E217 Losing Paradise, Inventing the World
E255 The Jewish Narrative
E267 Travel Writing: Routes, Roots, and Rootlessness
E310 Narratives From Around the World
E311 After Babel: Literature in the time of Globalization
E315 European Literature
E356 Political Theater and Performance
E357 Theatre, Performance, Politics
E360 Brecht and Fo
E361 Dario Fo: The Hand That Starves You
E365 Visualizing Human Rights
E373 Italian Literature and Film
E398 Chinese Cinema
E701 Seminar: Family Narratives
E760 Seminar: Global Cities in Translation
E761 Seminar: Global English Literatures
E762 Seminar: “Bollywood and Beyond”: Introduction to Indian Popular Cinema
E770 Seminar: Anaïs Nin
Postcolonial Literatures
E301 & E302 Postcolonial Literature I & II
E312 Irish Literature
E313 Irish Nonsense
E330 The Literatures of Africa
E333 Literatures of the Indian Subcontinent
E334 Narrative Flows: Waters of Faith, Identity, Sustenance
E335 Writing Contemporary South Asia
E338 Magical Realism and the South
E341 Australian Poetry and Prose
E399 Postcolonial film
E782 Seminar: Joyce, Synge, Yeats and their antecedents
E784 Seminar: Suffera No More – Caribbean Politics and Literature.
E786 Seminar: “Eating the way back home”: Food, Literature, and Identity
E790 Seminar: Three African Writers
E791 Seminar: Colony/Ecology
E798 Seminar: ‘To Plough Van Diemen’s Land’: Convicts in Australian Literature