Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature - CSCL at 235 Nicholson Hall, 216 Pillsbury Dr SE, 55425 Minneapolis, Minnesota

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UNDERGRADUATE Here you will study the traditional questions of the humanities—What are the True, the Good, and the Beautiful—in ways that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Our subject matter is “Culture,” that unruly and infinitely varied ensemble of texts and practices through which human beings express and pleasure themselves, make sense of the universe, and impose order and meaning on Nature and each other. Whatever our immediate object—be it a Hollywood blockbuster or avant-garde film, a poem or play, a scientific or religious treatise, a painting, a rock concert or symphony, a TV ad selling a car or a candidate, the rhetoric of “race” or sexuality, an English garden or suburban tract—our overarching aim remains constant: to discover how such texts and practices relate to one another in terms of larger historical patterns of sense-making, as well as of material power and desire, domination and resistance, subjection and agency. The department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature came into being in 1992 as an outgrowth of the old Humanities Program, a unique cross-disciplinary unit founded in 1945. We are thus one of the younger departments in CLA, and, we believe, one of the more exciting. Come check us out; we think you’ll agree. Gary Thomas Director of Undergraduate Studies http://cscl.umn.edu/ugrad/resources.html GRADUATE Deciding to study and teach critical theory and practice in the current political / cultural moment is a brave act. Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature honors that commitment. The good news is that you will be able to define an original program of study reflecting your interests and expertise. We'll support you with solid courses in the historical, philosophical, theoretical strains of thought that anchor contemporary scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. We'll help you connect to scholars across the university—certainly to those in related humanities and social-science disciplines, but also availing yourself of the resources of a comprehensive research university with programs in all core sciences, engineering and technology, agriculture, medicine, law and the professions. Our students create projects of striking originality and scope. The bad news, of course, is the same: you've got to define the critical, cross (and anti-) disciplinary and methodological space in which you work. It's often an unmarked trail. But we offer a community of singular coherence and supportiveness. It's a good place to work. Anchoring our programs is a commitment to praxis and professionalism. We take Freire's notion of the 'transformative intellectual' seriously. Pedagogy is integral to our work, not just a job. Our students teach all levels of comparative study, designing their own courses with solid support from a seminar in pedagogy for Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and a program of teaching mentorship. You'll leave your doctoral work with a teaching portfolio the rivals that of a mid-level assistant professor, and the language to explain it. Similarly, we take the structure, history and political function of academe and academic departments as a worthy topic of inquiry. Our graduate students participate in the governance of the Department, and learn how universities operate. We offer workshops in all the material aspects of academic life: writing for publication, getting grants, preparing yourself for the job market—and actually getting that job. In short: if you're going to dedicate a large part of a decade to graduate study, you need to do it in a place where you will flourish. We are committed to justifying your faith. Do consider joining this vibrant program engaged in re-imagining comparative studies. Robin Brown Director of Graduate Studies http://cscl.umn.edu/grad/resources/index.html Faculty: John Archer - CSCL Chair; Architecture, Space, Cities, and Suburbia Hisham Bizri - Cinema and Filmmaking Timothy Brennan - 19th and 20th Century Comparative Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Cultural Theory, Globalization, Music Robert (Robin) Brown - Director of Graduate Studies, cultural studies of science and technology, rhetoric, literacy and critical pedagogy Cesare Casarino - Philosophy, Cinema, Literature, Queer Theory Keya Ganguly - Critical Theory, Film, Postcolonialism, Politics and Practice of Ethnography, Sociology of Culture Richard Leppert - Music, Visual Culture, Critical Theory, Aesthetics, History of Modernity Alice Lovejoy John Mowitt - History and Politics of Critical Theory, Cinema and Media Studies, Music Thomas Pepper - Psychoanalytic Theory, Gender, Textual Theory, Philosophy of Language Shaden Tageldin - Empire, Slavery, (Post)Coloniality, and Migration in 19th and 20th Century Literature/Theory in English, Arabic, and French, Critical Translation Studies Gary Thomas - Director of Undergraduate Studies and Honors; Cultural Theory, Music, Gender-Sexuality, Comic Theory, German Literature Lecturers: Meredith Gill, Kysa Hubbard, Imed Labidi, Paige Sweet Graduate Students: Comparative Literature: Timothy August, Michelle Baroody, Justin Butler, Thomas Cannavino, Anil Chandiramani, Shrada Ghale, Courtney Gildersleeve, Matthew Hadley, Christian Haines, George Hoagland, Kevin Humbert, Brendan McGillicuddy, Niels Niessen, Derk Renwick, Akshya Saxena, Gabriel Shapiro, Aleksander Sedzielarz, Marla Zubel Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society: Cecilia Aldarondo, Koel Banerjee, Sarah Bellamy, Bradley Bellatti, Hongwei Chen, Benjamin Fink, Emily Fedoruk, Andrea Gyenge, Jesse Lawson, Matthew Levine, Jessica Mathiason, Sean Nye, Djordje Popovic, Sara Saljoughi, Niloofar Sarlati, Rachel Schaff, Justin Schell, Brad Stiffler, Matt Stoddard, Ben Stork, Joe Tompkins, Raysh Weiss, Holley Wlodarczyk, Dag Yngvesson

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