Winter 2025 Graduate Courses

Winter 2025

ELTS 206 – Topics in Cultural Studies: Multispecies Humanities

Instructor: Vetri Nathan

In-depth exploration of major historical event through its representation in cultural production. Readings include cultural texts, documentary or archival material, essays on politics, and aesthetics, memory, urban space, architecture. Development of techniques in contextualized literary analysis.

ITALIAN 214D – Studies in Medieval Literature: Boccaccio’s Decameron

Instructor: Massimo Ciavolella

Exploration of Boccaccio’s Decameron in its historical and cultural context, focusing on narrative structure, themes of love, wit, and social critique, and its enduring influence on the development of prose fiction in Europe.