Courses

• GRS EC 951: Dissertation Workshop in Empirical Microeconomics 1
  Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• GRS EC 952: Dissertation Workshop in Empirical Microeconomics 2
  Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• GRS EC 966: Dw Econ HISTRY2
  
• GRS EI 703: Annotation
  Studies in allusions, sources, dating, topical contexts, annotation as a part of the work itself, and marginal glosses, among other topics.
• GRS EI 704: Editions
  A consideration of the major editions of an author or authors. Subject varies.
• GRS EI 901: Directed Study
  Directed study in a topic in editorial studies.
• GRS EI 902: Directed Study
  Directed study in a topic in editorial studies.
• GRS EN 604: History of Criticism 1
  A historical survey of western literary-critical standards from the earliest surviving formulations in classical Athens to the dawn of the twentieth century. Writers include Plato, Aristotle, Dante, Johnson, Hegel, Nietzsche, Du Bois, Freud; questions of truth, rhetoric, pleasure, selfhood, politics.
• GRS EN 606: Literary Criticism II
  Survey of literary critical perspectives and trends in humanistic theory relevant to literary interpretation from the middle of the twentieth century onward, including formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, gender studies, new historicism, and post-colonial studies. Frequent writing assignments of varying lengths.
• GRS EN 665: Critical Studies in Literature and Society
  Topic for Fall 2017: Hamlet/Lear/Macbeth: Appropriation and Performance. Historical context, performance histories, and appropriations and transformations of Shakespeare's Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. Films, novels, plays from England, France, Germany, Russia, Australia, Japan, and the US. Theoretical analysis of intertextuality, cultural politics, canon formation, globalization of culture.
• GRS EN 666: Critical Studies in Literature and Society
  Topic for Fall 2017: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic. This course considers the first century of black Atlantic literature, including poetry and prose by Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, and Frederick Douglass. How did these writers represent the early modern world? How did they work to change it?
• GRS EN 675: Critical Studies in Literature and Gender: Representing Gender in American Literature and Film
  Gender representations in American literature, film, and graphic novels from the 1950's through the present. Works include Lolita, Catcher in the Rye, Streetcar Named Desire, Diary of a Teenage Girl, and Paris is Burning.
• GRS EN 682: Critical Studies in Modern Literature
  Topic for Spring 2017: Approaches to the Postcolonial Novel. Modern stories from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. An introduction to historical background and critical approaches to the works of authors such as Amos Tutuola, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, and Daniyal Mueenudin.
• GRS EN 684: Crst Lit&Ethnic
  
• GRS EN 693: Crst Lit & Arts
  
• GRS EN 695: Critical Studies in Literary Topics
  Topic for Fall 2017: Time and Literature 1800-1930. From 1800-1930, momentous changes in technology (railway, telegraph, photography) and science (geology, Darwin, Einstein) inspired a re-conception of time.Course examines narrative time in Byron, Wordsworth, Hardy, Woolf, and Proust in relation to these strange new ideas about time.
• GRS EN 696: Critical Studies in Literary Topics
  Topic for Spring 2012: Animals and Literature Since 1800. Can we cast ourselves into the inner lives of alien creatures, from amoebas to elephants? Animals in literature and film, and theoretical shifts in the category of animal. Authors include Byron, Hardy, Darwin, Woolf, and Kafka.
• GRS EN 699: Teaching College English I
  The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in English. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teaching fellows.
• GRS EN 705: Seminar: The Writing of Plays 1
  A workshop in the writing of plays. Manuscripts are read using professional actors from the Boston community, and plays are discussed in class. Individual conferences. Limited enrollment.
• GRS EN 706: Seminar: The Writing of Plays 2
  A workshop in the writing of plays. Manuscripts are read using professional actors from the Boston community, and plays are discussed in class. Individual conferences. Limited enrollment.

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