Courses

This course takes up representations of Italy by Americans travelling abroad as means of tracing the US’s changing relationship to the world in the twentieth century. Italy offers a rich point of entry for this investigation: the country not only...

Irish dramatists have for many years been held in high esteem on the world stage. Students will study the development of this success and gain an insight into subject matters which inspire Irish Playwrights. Through focused study of selected plays...

Over twelve weekly sessions, this course will facilitate student engagement with writing creatively, with a concentration on the short story form. Concurrently, participants will trace the development of the modern Irish short story as a literary...

This course focuses on 21st-century nature writing, particularly on the variety of approaches through which contemporary literature represents and responds to nature in the era of the climate crisis. Its purpose is to demonstrate literature as a...

“The Second World War had more influence on British national identity than any other event in history. - Richard Weight, Patriots, p. 116 

The 1940s are also often reckoned to be the golden decade of British cinema. This course explores the...

This course will retrace and seek to understand the gradual shift in France from feminist theory to gender studies. Unlike in the American and British Academe, where the academic merit of

these subjects was established over a half-century ago, in...

This course examines the links between anti-establishment and aesthetic praxis in Latin America since 1930. Topics are organized in two modules. Painting, music and theatre are studied through the lens of political, social and economic change, with...

The objective of this course is to analyze the connection between literature (mainly narrative but occasionally some poetic and dramatic texts as well) and cinema. Along with this theoretical analysis, the course covers the historical evolution of...

Crime, criminal law, and criminal justice are more than ever on the political agenda of national governments, in Europe and in the US. Widespread concern about rising crime, “insecurity” and anti-social behavior and new analyses of crime are leading...