PhD Courses
| 1st Year Ph.D. Preparation Seminar | Francisca de Haan |
|
3rd Year Writing Seminar This course is designed for students who have advanced to candidacy to facilitate the writing of their substantive dissertation chapters. Its core requirement, to circulate a 10+ page section of a substantive dissertation chapter in progress, is designed to give students a deadline and community to support their independent dissertation writing. The structure of the seminar will be a serious writing workshop. This means that members must read the writing of other students and provide thoughtful, productive, and meaningful feedback to facilitate their peers’ revisions. Depending on the number of students enrolled, participants may be able to present more than once (either a revision of |
Allaine Cerwonka |
|
Cultural Productions of the Self This course uses historical and theoretical sources to analyze how the modern notion of the self developed in the West. It does so in order to highlight the constructed nature of identity, but more importantly, to show that identity has a very particular history. It connects shifts in ideas of the self to the secularization of Europe, the rise of the middle class, the rise of the modern novel, and new forms of political power. Additionally, the course asks about the consequences of “identity” – interrogating how it has become a key means for people to imagine their place in society and their experience of being a person/alive. Therefore, beyond looking at the relationship of the self to |
Allaine Cerwonka |
|
Travelling Concepts in Gender Studies Generating ‘traveling concepts’ is an inherent feature of all theories. And in feminist theory, with its intentional, self-reflexive eclecticism, the question of traveling concepts is of particular importance. Producing an interdisciplinary frame of thinking, where traditional modes of knowledge production are put in question, feminist theory is continually re-thinking its key concepts, thus creating changes in conceptual framework that have significant theoretical and methodological implications. |
Jasmina Lukic |