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This course will serve as an immersion in the work of several major American poets of the 1950s and 1960s, noted for their humor, irreverence, disjunctive experimentation, charm, and wildness, and collectively known as the New York School. We will begin by focusing on the original generation of New York School poets: John Ashbery, Frank OHara, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler,
In 1935, at Bennington College, Martha Graham created the iconic work Panorama. This piece “was Graham’s political call to action and her attempt to awaken
Spoiler alert: Grief.
Grief turns us into the perfect spy, and in this course we will be interrogating contemporary novels to explore the ways in which characters and authors use lies, elaborate constructions, false realities, document and narrative manipulation as means of side-stepping, escaping, or fending off grief. We will be reading W.G. Sebald's Rings of
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a political theorist whose work has become increasingly influential in recent years. A student of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, her extensive writings cover such topics as the nature of power, the meaning of the political, and the problem of revolution. This course is a detailed exploration of some of her major works, including The Human
