- ALL COURSES ARE RESTRICTED AND REQUIRE AN ACCESS CODE TO REGISTER.
- If you are NOT an SCA graduate student, but wish to enroll in a course, you must FIRST contact the professor requesting permission to enroll and then the graduate program coordinator: Rosa Báez, rab718@nyu.edu.
- SCA graduate courses (unless otherwise noted) are located at 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor.
AFRS-GA 2000.001 - Africana Proseminar
Prof. Kessie Alexandre
Mondays 4:55PM-7:35 PM
20 Cooper Sq - Rm 471 CONF
Offering a topical exploration of key research themes and topics, the course is an introduction to contemporary historical, ethnographic, cultural and political discourses in Africana studies. The course frames Africana studies within an Atlantic prism as well as exploring other ‘hemispheric’ approaches to examining Africa and its diasporas by examining the various intersecting modernities within which Africana is constructed and contested.
AMST-GA 2302.001 - NYLON New York: Culture, Politics, Technology
Prof. Sophie Gonick & Prof. Natasha Schull
Tuesdays 12:30PM-2:00PM
20 Cooper Sq, 2nd Floor - Rm 222
(Contact the instructors for enrollment)
NYLON (New York: LONdon) is a year-long workshop series developing research related to culture, politics, and technology. NYLON connects doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows in New York, London, and Berlin with faculty support and participation. Our New York workshop will meet every other week to develop and discuss ongoing projects related to our theme. In the spring, the New York, London, and Berlin groups will join to hold a conference—likely in Berlin in Spring 2024—where participants will present their work.
Our theme is expansive: we welcome students working on a wide range of topics including AI and inequality, social media and misinformation, the circulation and uses of political rhetoric and rallies, infrastructural worlds, social movements and media, histories of technology and innovation, cultures of surveillance, and urban space, both virtual and real. NYLON participants will engage with others in a range of fields, including American studies, anthropology, business, history, media studies, politics, psychology, science and technology studies, sociology, and technology design. Our group will also cross cohorts, bringing together doctoral candidates writing theses, doctoral students developing projects related to the theme, and post-doctoral fellows advancing their written work.
We value the creation of a space for critical feedback. It is our goal to provide all participants the opportunity to discuss and evaluate dissertation chapters, journal article drafts, research designs, presentations, and more, across institutional, methodological, and disciplinary boundaries. By promoting broad-based intellectual exchanges, NYLON is a forum where new insights and theory can be developed, and where early-career researchers can refine their questions and approaches.
AMST-GA 2901.001 - Formations of Native American/Indigenous Studies
Prof. Lou Cornum
Thursdays 4:55pm-7:35pm
20 Cooper Sq - Room 471 CONF
What is the object of study and horizon of possibility for Native American Studies? How have these changed over time? These are the preliminary questions for an intellectual and socio-political history of the field. This course brings together materials related to the emergence of NAS, considering how scholarly inquiry responds to various political moments in the 20th century across the United States and subsequent transformations in theorizations of sovereignty, land, and decolonization. We will read broadly across various approaches, including works by Ella Deloria, Vine Deloria, Elizabeth Cook-Lynne, Robert Warrior, Audra Simpson, Jodi Byrd, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Tiffany Lethabo King and others. The various sources and formations of Native American Studies will be analyzed in the context of its relation to Ethnic studies, Black Studies, Latino Studies as well as the larger global category of Indigenous Studies.
AMST-GA 3301.001 - American Studies Seminar
Prof. Robert Reid-Pharr
Wednesdays 4:55PM-7:35PM
20 Cooper Sq - Rm 471 CONF
In this introductory graduate seminar, we will review classic texts in American studies, models of intersectional scholarship, and new work addressed to new publics in the field of American Studies, broadly defined. We’ll examine the shifting intellectual parameters and political interventions of American Studies scholarship. Some of the questions we will address include: What theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches have shaped the field? How has the field intersected with other institutionally insurgent interdisciplinary fields, including (but not limited to) feminist and queer studies, labor studies, comparative ethnic and diaspora studies, environmental studies, native and dis/ability studies?
AMST-GA 3701.001 Transpacific Thought and the Problem of Asia
Prof. Thuy Tu
Tuesdays 9:30AM-12:15PM
20 Cooper Sq - Rm 471 CONF
Course description pending.
CROSSLISTED COURSE
COLIT-GA 2511 & AFRS-GA 3213 - Comparative Approaches the Literatures of Africa, the Middle East and the Global South
Prof. Hala Youssef
Mondays 2:00PM-4:45PM
Silver, Rm 406
Introduces recent developments in Comparative Literature, harnessing energies of Area Studies (Middle Eastern Studies, African Studies, and so forth) in order to extend its scope geographically.
COLIT-GA 3650 & AFRS-GA 3640 - Topics in African Literature: African Literary Experimentalism
Prof. Mark Sanders
Tuesdays 11:00AM-1:45PM
19 University Place, Rm 229
Whereas the exchanges between writers of the African diaspora and the Surrealists are well known, those between writers from the African continent and other iterations of experimentalism in Europe and the Americas are less well known and understood. Turning our attention to docu-fiction, textual pastiche, computer poetry, and various forms of metafiction, in this seminar we shall consider links, influences, and resonances, in English, French, Spanish, and Afrikaans writing. Possible authors to include Aimé Césaire, Jorge Luis Borges, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marie Ndiaye, Toni Morrison, J.M. Coetzee, Bloke Modisane, Yambo Ouologuem, Zoë Wicomb, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Teju Cole, and Marlene van Niekerk.
ITAL-GA 2165 & AMST-GA 2304 - Queering the Italian American Bildungsroman: From Repression to Destruction of the Closet
Prof. Ryan Calabretta-Sajder
Tuesdays 3:30PM-6:15PM
Casa Italiana, Rm 203
“Queering the Italian American Bildungsroman” analyzes the image of Italian Americans from various gendered perspectives, particularly illustrating queer voices and experiences. The course begins with a theoretical introduction to Gender Studies (Gender, Queer, and Masculinity Studies) as well as exploring Italian American cultural theory. Once a theoretical base has been established, the course investigates diverse themes related to queer Italian Americans. The course charts, but also questions, the evolution of the representation of Italian Americans from being repressed and closeted to being proudly open and activist. Genres include poetry, short stories, novels, theatre, AIDS literature, film and media studies.
Public Humanities Initiative in Graduate Education
The Advanced Certificate in Public Humanities explores public engagement as a cornerstone in the careers of scholars, researchers, and teachers. In addition to opportunities for cross-disciplinary thought and collaboration, students meet and learn from practitioners, setting the groundwork for a diverse array of post-graduate careers.
The Advanced Certificate in Management and Leadership of Public Service Organizations prepares students to apply their humanistic training in public-facing careers. Courses offered by the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service complement a foundation in Public Humanities by the management and leadership skills in demand at wide-ranging public enterprises including museums, cultural organizations and non-profits.
For a comprehensive overview and a coursework checklist for both certificates, view the Public Humanities Advanced Certificate One Sheet.