HILI Courses at Reid Hall

FALL
Introduction to History and Literature. 3 pts. Prof. Michael Stanislawski
A historical and conceptual introduction to the relationship between history and literature. 

Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism. 3 pts. Prof. Michael Stanislawski
This course, specifically developed for the M.A. program in History and Literature at Reid Hall, will focus on two of the most important intellectual and ideological movements in French and world history since 1789. It will begin with the earliest articulations of nationalism in France during the Revolution and continue on to trace the spread of nationalism in France, Germany, around Europe, and then the world, in the ensuing two centuries. It will then turn its attention to theories of cosmopolitanism, as taught from Kant through Marx to the present.

French Language Course. No credits. Prof. Cecile Balavoine.
The first half of this course focuses on grammar review and oral/aural skills and the second half on written expression. Readings are drawn from contemporary French and Francophone texts. To prepare students to adapt to their seminars at the ENS and the EHESS,  increasing emphasis is placed on analytical skills and on the cogent presentation of ideas and points of view. Sections are very small ( 5 students) so that students can make quick progress.

SPRING
Research Seminar. 3 pts. Prof, Dorothea von Muecke
This seminar is a step-by-step introduction to scholarly research in the field of History and Literature. In the course of the seminar, students will learn to design meaningful research questions that resonate with current scholarly debates, develop and carry out research strategies that answer these questions, and hone their academic writing skills. Several hands-on sessions will be devoted to visits to libraries and archival repositories, during which students will learn to establish a bibliography and to locate and read archival sources.

Spring Aesthetics and Philosophy of History. 3 pts. Prof. Dorothea von Muecke.

MAY-JULY 

Annie Ernaux: Writing as a Knife. 3 pts. Prof. Thomas Dodman.

This course offers a deep dive into French contemporary novelist Annie Ernaux’s auto-socio- biographical fiction. It does so through close readings of some of her major works, organized thematically and across Ernaux’s oeuvre. Close readings of texts will be paired with recent film/theatre adaptations, sociological and theoretical work that has inspired Ernaux, her work’s growing critical reception (amplified by her Nobel prize last year), as well as other writers that have been inspired by her. Themes covered include: writing impersonally in the first person; what is auto-socio-biography; exploring women’s desire and sexuality; Ernaux’s feminism and other kinds of militancy; ethnographies of contemporary France and the baby-boomer generation. Throughout, we will consider what kind of genre Ernaux’s writing is, and what writing as a knife can do. 

FALL
Introduction to History and Literature. 3 pts. Prof. Thomas Dodman
A historical and conceptual introduction to the relationship between history and literature. 

Passing/Transfuges: on being someone else. 3pts. Prof. Thomas Dodman
This course explores different examples of people pretending to be someone else, or something other than the identities they are assigned at birth and by existing social norms. It considers three typical forms of this fluidity of self and other: the phenomenon of racial passing in post emancipation US history; attempts to import the notion of passing in the context of gender identity; and the related concept of a transfuge de classe in contemporary France. Drawing from a range of scholarly disciplines (sociology, psychology, philosophy, history…) and close readings of literary texts (novels, autobiographical writings…), we will explore a range of questions related to these phenomena: of self-fashioning and social reproduction, of authenticity and performance, of outer cues and inner feelings, of how class, race, and gender align and intersect, in privilege and subversion. 

French Language Course. No credits. Prof. Cecile Balavoine.
The first half of this course focuses on grammar review and oral/aural skills and the second half on written expression. Readings are drawn from contemporary French and Francophone texts. To prepare students to adapt to their seminars at the ENS and the EHESS,  increasing emphasis is placed on analytical skills and on the cogent presentation of ideas and points of view. Sections are very small ( 5 students) so that students can make quick progress.

SPRING
Research Seminar. 3 pts. Prof, Malgorzata Mazurek
This seminar is a step-by-step introduction to scholarly research in the field of History and Literature. In the course of the seminar, students will learn to design meaningful research questions that resonate with current scholarly debates, develop and carry out research strategies that answer these questions, and hone their academic writing skills. Several hands-on sessions will be devoted to visits to libraries and archival repositories, during which students will learn to establish a bibliography and to locate and read archival sources.

Fin-de-Siecle Europe. 3 pts. Prof. Malgorzata Mazurek
This reading-intense seminar will explore key primary sources and historiography of the period 1880-1910: decades of cultural transition and innovation; décadence and modernism; beginnings and 'fins,’ explorations into the subconscious and mass behaviors. Simultaneity and duality will be our guiding concepts. We will focus on Paris as an epicenter of artistic exchange, Vienna as a cultural heartland of fin-de-siècle Europe, and Eastern Europe as a hotbed of radical mass politics. We will investigate key philosophical, social and political phenomena of an epoch described as “the crucible of modernity:” shifting ways of seeing, working and consuming; an era of sexual experimentation (bachelor, dandy, New Woman); conceptions of the self (Freud’s concept of the subconscious) and the society (crowd, mass politics, revolution, empire, nation-building). We will work with a premise that culture and politics should be studied in a transnational context (i.e. 19^th century forms of statehood and economic life) and in a cross-disciplinary way, considering how literary texts were shaped alongside works in other spheres: visual arts, architecture, science, philosophy, early cinema, sexuality, social and political life. By underscoring the overarching themes of decline and rebirth, this course engages with shifting ways of thinking about the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.

May-July. Black Americans, Jazz, and the City of Light. 3 pts. Prof. Robert O'Meally
This seminar is an introduction to the profound engagement of African Americans—primarily those from the U.S.--with the City of Light in the twentieth century. We will be especially attuned to ways Paris can be considered not just a city of refuge but also a culture capital of the African Diaspora. We will examine a variety of “encounters on the Seine” among Black intellectuals and artists from across the Diaspora. In this survey of cross-cultural conversation, we will read Black novels and essays; and we will consider Black visual art forms, including collage, film, and dance; we will consider some of the forms of Black music made in Paris. In fact, the emphasis in this class will be on jazz in Paris—from its introduction here early in the 20^th century until today. Along this way, it will be necessary to consider Négritude as it developed among African and Caribbean intellectuals after World War Two, as well as the key periods of African American expatriation in Paris, especially in the 1920s and the 1950s. We will discuss the politics of Black Paris, both in terms of anti-colonialism and in terms of anti-racism in the United States, tracing the ways that the cultures of Black Paris have emerged in relation to broader discourses such as surrealism and existentialism. Readings will include works by Raymond Williams, Edward Said, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, James Baldwin, Rashida Braggs, and Brent Hayes Edwards.

FALL
Introduction to History and Literature. 3 pts.
A historical and conceptual introduction to the relationship between history and literature.

section 1   Prof. Carol Gluck.
section 2  Prof. Loren Wolfe.

Narratives of World War II. 3 pts. Prof. Carol Gluck.
An examination of literary, cinematic, and museal narratives of the Second World War produced in the decades since 1940 in France and other places. The analytic approach centers both on the historicity of, and the history in, the texts, with the goal of questioning the nature of narrative in different forms and practicing the blend of literary and historical approaches treated in the core course. Because the war remains so prominent an issue in culture, politics, and memory in France and elsewhere, the course presents an opportunity to explore the connections between history and literature in a field rich with great literary and cinematic texts and alive with dynamic historical debate. 

Troubling the Senses. 3 pts. Prof. Loren Wolfe.
Our senses are tools that allow us to discover and learn as they put us “in touch” with the external world. These experiences, when internalized, shape our consciousness and fashion our very sense of self. Derived from the Greek word aísthēsis meaning “perception, sensing," aesthetics - the philosophical study of beauty and taste - places our five senses at the heart of our practice interpreting and evaluating works of art.
One of COVID’s most disorienting symptoms was the loss of taste and smell. Even for those fortunate enough not to fall ill, months of confinement and isolation have dulled the senses and anaesthetized affect. The aim of this class is to reawaken and interrogate the senses, exploring the historical, epistemological, medical, cultural, and creative framings of our embodied encounter with the material world as we take stock of the meanings we derive from them. 

French Language Course. No credits. Fall. Prof. Cecile Balavoine.
The first half of this course focuses on grammar review and oral/aural skills and the second half on written expression. Readings are drawn from contemporary French and Francophone texts. To prepare students to adapt to their seminars at the ENS and the EHESS,  increasing emphasis is placed on analytical skills and on the cogent presentation of ideas and points of view. Sections are very small ( 5 students) so that students can make quick progress. During the remainder of the year, students have the possibility of working one-on-one with Christine Valero.

SPRING
Research Seminar. 3 pts.
This seminar is a step-by-step introduction to scholarly research in the field of History and Literature. In the course of the seminar, students will learn to design meaningful research questions that resonate with current scholarly debates, develop and carry out research strategies that answer these questions, and hone their academic writing skills. Several hands-on sessions will be devoted to visits to libraries and archival repositories, during which students will learn to establish a bibliography and to locate and read archival sources.

section 1  Prof. Jennifer Wenzel.
section 2  Prof Loren Wolfe.

Freedom Times: Postcoloniality and Decolonization. 3 pts. Prof. Jennifer Wenzel.
This course will examine some of the major debates, contested genealogies, epistemic and political interventions, and possible futures of the body of writing that has come to be known as postcolonial theory, in relation to histories and practices of decolonization. The course title, “Freedom Times,” is adapted from Gary Wilder’s Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (2015); the plural, freedom times, gestures toward our consideration of multiple and successive moments in which liberation from colonial or imperial rule has been imagined and fought for. What did the mid-20 th century theorists of Negritude whom Wilder analyzes mean by “decolonization,” and how do those aspirations differ from those working for “decolonization” around the world today? How do these different struggles draw from – or talk past or even repudiate – one another? How do they imagine the relationship between politics and aesthetics, or (following Frantz Fanon) national liberation and national culture? Or think beyond the nation?

The Camera as Historian: Photography and French History in the XIXth and XXth Centuries. 3pts. Prof. Jean-Philippe Dedieu.
The emergence of photography in the early nineteenth century was a technological revolution, as significant as the print revolution. This course aims to introduce students to French history through public and private uses of photography and this medium’s relationship to artistic, social and political issues. Historical episodes include the craze for photographs in the Second Empire, the birth of war photography, the relationship between photographic identity and national security, the practice of militant images in the interwar period, and the representation of crimes against humanity. In addition to readings of academic texts and photographs, the study of diaries, letters, and novels written by photographers, poets, and writers will bring additional perspective that is closer to the photographic experience itself. The course’s organization will encourage students to explore the role of private and public organizations as well as various printed forms in disseminating and giving meaning to photographs. Students will learn the language of formal description and hone skills in cultural and historical analysis. Ultimately, students will be asked throughout the course what, if anything, distinguishes a photographic “document” from a photographic “artwork” or from a visual “archive”.

Summer 2022 Aesthetics and Philosophy of History. 3 pts. Prof. Dorothea von Muecke.

Fall 2019  Introduction to History and Literature. 3 pts. Prof. Joseph Slaughter
A historical and conceptual introduction to the relationship between history and literature. 

Fall 2019  Cultural Appropriation and World Literature. 3 pts. Prof. Joseph Slaughter
What does it mean to treat culture, literature, and identity as forms of property? This course will look at the current debates around cultural appropriation in relation to the expanding field of world literature. In many ways, the two discourses seem at odds: the ethno-proprietary claims that underpin most arguments against cultural appropriation seem to conflict with the more cosmopolitan pretenses of world literature. Nonetheless, both discourses rely on some basic premises that treat culture and cultural productions as forms of property and expressions of identity (itself often treated as a form of property). “Appropriation” is a particularly rich lens for looking at processes and conceptions of worlding and globalization, because some version of the idea is central to historical theories of labor, economic production, land claims, colonialism, authorship, literary translation, and language acquisition. This is not a course in “world literature” as such; we will examine a half dozen case studies of literary/cultural texts that have been chosen for the ways in which they open up different aspects of the problematics of reducing culture to an econometric logic of property relations in the world today.

French Language Course. No credits. Fall. Prof. Cecile Balavoine.
The first half of this course focuses on grammar review and oral/aural skills and the second half on written expression. Readings are drawn from contemporary French and Francophone texts. To prepare students to adapt to their seminars at the ENS and the EHESS,  increasing emphasis is placed on analytical skills and on the cogent presentation of ideas and points of view. Sections are very small ( 5 students) so that students can make quick progress. During the remainder of the year, students have the possibility of working one-on-one with Christine Valero.

Spring 2020  Research Seminar. 3 pts. Prof. Michael Stanislawski
This seminar is a step-by-step introduction to scholarly research in the field of History and Literature. In the course of the seminar, students will learn to design meaningful research questions that resonate with current scholarly debates, develop and carry out research strategies that answer these questions, and hone their academic writing skills. Several hands-on sessions will be devoted to visits to libraries and archival repositories, during which students will learn to establish a bibliography and to locate and read archival sources.

Spring 2020  Nationalism and Cosmopolitism. 3 pts. Prof. Michael Stanislawski

May-July 2020  Enlightenment Legacies. 3 pts. Prof Charly Coleman

Fall 2018  Introduction to History and Literature. 3 pts. Carol Gluck.
A historical and conceptual introduction to the relationship between history and literature.

Fall 2018  Narratives of World War II. 3 pts. Fall. Carol Gluck.
An examination of literary, cinematic, and museal narratives of the Second World War produced in the decades since 1940 in France and other places. The analytic approach centers both on the historicity of, and the history in, the texts, with the goal of questioning the nature of narrative in different forms and practicing the blend of literary and historical approaches treated in the core course. Because the war remains so prominent an issue in culture, politics, and memory in France and elsewhere, the course presents an opportunity to explore the connections between history and literature in a field rich with great literary and cinematic texts and alive with dynamic historical debate. 

French Language Course. No credits. Fall. Prof. Cecile Balavoine.
The first half of this course focuses on grammar review and oral/aural skills and the second half on written expression. Readings are drawn from contemporary French and Francophone texts. To prepare students to adapt to their seminars at the ENS and the EHESS,  increasing emphasis is placed on analytical skills and on the cogent presentation of ideas and points of view. Sections are very small ( 5 students) so that students can make quick progress. During the remainder of the year, students have the possibility of working one-on-one with Christine Valero.

Spring 2019  Research Seminar. 3 pts. Prof. Pierre Force
This seminar is a step-by-step introduction to scholarly research in the field of History and Literature. In the course of the seminar, students will learn to design meaningful research questions that resonate with current scholarly debates, develop and carry out research strategies that answer these questions, and hone their academic writing skills. Several hands-on sessions will be devoted to visits to libraries and archival repositories, during which students will learn to establish a bibliography and to locate and read archival sources.

Spring 2019  French America, 1534-1804. 3 pts. Prof. Pierre Force
A study of the French Atlantic World from the exploration of Canada to the Louisiana Purchase and Haitian Independence, with a focus on the relationship between war and trade, forms of intercultural negotiation, the economics of slavery, and the changing meaning of race. Special attention will be paid to literary representations of America, such as Prévost's Manon Lescaut and Chateaubriand's Atala.

May-July 2019 The “I” of the story. 3 pts. Prof. Thomas Dodman
What does it mean for an author to place herself in the narrative? What is this “I” of the story? This course explores the uses of an explicit subjective standpoint—the author’s “I”—in literature and the social sciences. Working across the disciplines, and back and forth between subject and object, it grapples with the methodological challenges, epistemological implications, ethical conundrums, and critical payoffs of such a self-reflexive mode of analysis.

Fall 2017: Introduction to History and Literature. 3 pts. Prof. Loren Wolfe.
This course offers a broad overview of the different ways in which History and Literature have crossed paths since the early modern period. Its main goal is not to provide a single theoretical or methodological framework, but to introduce students to the many debates that have marked the relationship (and at times, confrontation) between history and literature.

Fall 2017: Minorities in France: Exiled histories, Contested Memories, Collective Protests. 3 pts. Prof. Jean-Philippe Dedieu
Minorities in France endeavors to understand the development of the peculiar, intense, and historically conflictual relationship that exists between the French state and ethnic, racial or religious minorities. This course will also explore how history, memory and representation have been mutually entangled and politically contested from post-World War II to the present day. Historical episodes include the aftermath of the Holocaust, struggles around decolonization in Africa, Asia, and Maghreb, the growing politicization of minorities in the wake of May 1968, as well as the rise and demise of multiculturalism over the last two decades of the XXth century. Using oral testimonies, novels, films, and photographs, a specific emphasis will be placed on how discrimination and state violence were lived by marginalized groups and how they responded to and remembered specific and dramatic events over time.

Fall 2017 (mid-September through October): French Language Course. No credits. Prof. Cecile Balavoine
The first half of this course focuses on grammar review and oral/aural skills and the second half on written expression. Readings are drawn from contemporary French and Francophone texts. To prepare students to adapt to their seminars at the ENS and the EHESS,  increasing emphasis is placed on analytical skills and on the cogent presentation of ideas and points of view. Sections are very small (5 students) so that students can make quick progress. During the remainder of the year, students have the possibility of working one-on-one with tutors. See tutoring for more information.

Spring 2018: Research Seminar. 3 pts. Prof. Jenny Davidson.
This seminar is a step-by-step introduction to scholarly research in the field of History and Literature. In the course of the seminar, students will learn to design meaningful research questions that resonate with current scholarly debates, to develop and carry out research strategies that answer these questions, and to hone their academic writing skills. Several hands-on sessions will be devoted to visits to libraries and archival repositories, during which students will learn to establish a bibliography and to locate and read archival sources.

Spring 2018: "Epic Histories." Prof. Jenny Davidson.
We will immerse ourselves - in a process of "slow reading" - over the semester in two major works of history that also have claims to significant literary status and influence, Edward Gibbon's DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE and Walter Benjamin's ARCADES PROJECT.  We'll consider questions of modern versus postmodern history, historiography and methodology, status and standards of evidence, among other things; written work will include three or four short assignments, some of them experimental and/or creative in nature, with a strong emphasis on archives and methods, and a longer project at the end of the semester.

May-June 2018: Global Histories of the Book. 3 pts. Prof. Joseph Howley
Global Histories of the Book considers the history of books around the world, beginning with the invention of writing across different societies, and traces the development of both technologies and cultures of the book through the development of printing and beyond.  Students learn to handle and study rare books materials, and are able to compare the development of book technologies in different parts of the world, challenge traditional Western narratives about the book and its history, and articulate the role of—and consequences for—the book in processes of colonialism, imperialism, and globalization

Fall 2016 : Introduction to History and Literature. 3 pts. Prof Marcellus Blount and Loren Wolfe.
This course offers a broad overview of the different ways in which History and Literature have crossed paths since the early modern period. Its main goal is not to provide a single theoretical or methodological framework, but to introduce students to the many debates that have marked the relationship (and at times, confrontation) between history and literature.

Fall 2016 : Writing from France:  Black Expatriates in Paris. 3 pts. Prof. Marcellus Blount and Jean-Philippe Dedieu.
This course surveys the literature of African Americans in Paris in the twentieth century from the 1900’s to the present.  Emphasizing such major figures as James Baldwin, Barbara Chase-Riboud, and Richard Wright, what does it mean for African Americans to highlight race, cultural geography and national identity?  And is there a lineage of artists who complicate questions of gender and sexual orientation? What has brought African American artists to Paris?  What artistic, cultural and political freedoms have they found?

Fall 2016 (mid-September through October): French Language Course. No credits. Prof. Cecile Balavoine.
The first half of this course focuses on grammar review and oral/aural skills and the second half on written expression. Readings are drawn from contemporary French and Francophone texts. To prepare students to adapt to their seminars at the ENS and the EHESS,  increasing emphasis is placed on analytical skills and on the cogent presentation of ideas and points of view. Sections are very small (5 students) so that students can make quick progress. During the remainder of the year, students have the possibility of working one-on-one with tutors.

Spring 2017   Research Seminar. 3 pts. Prof. Michael Stanislawski
This seminar is a step-by-step introduction to scholarly research in the field of History and Literature. In the course of the seminar, students will learn to design meaningful research questions that resonate with current scholarly debates, develop and carry out research strategies that answer these questions, and hone their academic writing skills. Several hands-on sessions will be devoted to visits to libraries and archival repositories, during which students will learn to establish a bibliography and to locate and read archival sources.

Spring  2017  From Enlightment to Romanticism in French thought (1700-1848). 3 pts. Prof. Michael Stanislawski
This course, specifically developed for the MA HILI will focus on the two most important intellectual and ideological movements in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century French history, the Enlightenment and Romanticism. It will begin with posing the question central to any analysis of both movements : Was there a unified movement to be called The Enlightenment or European Romanticism as a whole or is it more analytically correct to speak of Enlightenments and Romanticisms in the plural ? To address these questions we will read carefully a selection of primary sources that deal with the central question of their time (in many ways, ours) : rationalism versus “irrationalism” and their epistemological correlates; their relationship of the “West” and the “East”; the connections between gender norms and political systems; a rethinking of Aristotle’s taxinomy of states and the relationship between property holding and political power; the role of religion (newly defined) and politics; the individual vs the nation (newly defined), education and tradition; and the meaning and place  of art and the artist in modern society.

May-June 2017  Aesthetics and Philosophy of History. 3 pts. Prof. Dorothea von Mücke

HILI G4002 Introduction to History and Literature. 3 pts. Fall. Carol Gluck (bio).
A historical and conceptual introduction to the relationship between history and literature.

HILI G8200 Narratives of World War II. 3 points. Fall. Carol Gluck (bio).
An examination of literary, cinematic, and museal narratives of the Second World War produced in the decades since 1940 in France and other places. The analytic approach centers both on the historicity of, and the history in, the texts, with the goal of questioning the nature of narrative in different forms and practicing the blend of literary and historical approaches treated in the core course. Because the war remains so prominent an issue in culture, politics, and memory in France and elsewhere, the course presents an opportunity to explore the connections between history and literature in a field rich with great literary and cinematic texts and alive with dynamic historical debate. 

French Language Course. No credits. Fall. Prof. Cecile Balavoine.
The first half of this course focuses on grammar review and oral/aural skills and the second half on written expression. Readings are drawn from contemporary French and Francophone texts. To prepare students to adapt to their seminars at the ENS and the EHESS,  increasing emphasis is placed on analytical skills and on the cogent presentation of ideas and points of view. Sections are very small ( 5 students) so that students can make quick progress. During the remainder of the year, students have the possibility of working one-on-one with Professor Christine Valero.

HILI G8400 Research Seminar. 3 pts. Spring. Joseph Slaughter (bio).
Initiation to archival, bibliographical, and philological work, with hands-on sessions in libraries and archives, and designing of a research project.

HILI G8196  Plagiarism and Postcolonialism. 3 points. Spring. Joseph Slaughter (bio).
This course examines practices of literary plagiarism, piracy, kidnapping, reproduction, impersonation and other disparaged textual activities in the context of (neo)imperial relations between literatures of (post)colonies and their metropolitan centers. If colonialism can be understood as, in part, an effort to reproduce some form of the culture of the imperial power in the colony, common accusations of plagiarism against (post)colonial writers would seem to reflect a fundamental anxiety about the cultural, social, and political projects of colonialism. Looking at multiple examples of “copy-writing,” this course moves beyond the “empire-writes-back” model of intertextuality that has characterized so many studies of the postcolonial novel, in which non-Western literature is read simply as a derivative response to the European canon. The course will study cases that involve “trafficking” in texts across linguistic and national boundaries to analyze historical, cultural, socio-economic, political and theoretical notions of authorship, originality, and (trans-)textuality as they intersect with colonialism and postcolonialism and as they are being negotiated in legal and literary conventions in the contemporary era of cultural-economic globalization. 

HILI G8197 Africa and France. 3 points. Summer. Gregory Mann (bio).
This course endeavors to understand the development of the peculiar, intense, and historically conflictual relationship that exists between France and the sub-Saharan nation-states that are its former African colonies. Although the relationship between France and Africa is centuries old, having pre-dated the French Revolution and been forged partly in the trans-Atlantic trade in slaves, this course covers the period from France’s 19th century colonial conquest of Africa to the contemporary African diaspora in France. Historical episodes include the expansion of France’s imperial republic, the rise and evolution of anti-colonialism, struggles around decolonization, and French-African relations in the post-colonial world. This is not a survey course; nor is it a course in international relations. Its goal is to situate historically the development of a shared—if contested—French-African political language, via key texts and ideas.

Example of courses taught in the past:

Fall 2011: The Realistic Novel in Context, Prof. Elisabeth Ladenson
Fall 2012: Narratives of World War II, Prof. Carol Gluck
Fall 2013: The Archival Imagination, Professor Brent Edwards
Fall 2014: The Voice of the Witness, Prof. Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer

Spring 2012: Rousseau’s Confessions, Professor Robert Morrissey
Spring 2013: Le Point de vue de l'indigène (1930-1970), Prof. Vincent Debaene
Spring 2014: Legacies of the First World War: history, memory and literature, Prof. Sylvie Aprile
Spring 2015: La France des Intellectuels, Prof. Philippe Roger

May-June 2012: History and Literature of Slavery, Professor Eric Foner
May-July 2013: Defoe’s London, Professor Carl Wennerlind.
May-July 2014: The Nation-Between History and Literature, Professor Emmanuelle Saada
May-July 2015: History and Literature of Slavery, Professor Eric Foner