COML 4999 - Seminar in Theory

(LA-AS)

This course examines trends and issues in contemporary literary and cultural theory, with attention to structuralism and post-structuralism, feminism, psychoanalysis and trauma studies, queer theory, biopolitics, and human-animal studies, and to questions concerning the nature of language and meaning, interpretation, identity, memory and history. Primary readings include work by Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Judith Butler, Shoshana Felman, Hannah Arendt, MichelFoucault, Etienne Balibar, Jean Baudrillard, and others.