Class

Semester: Spring Offered: 2020 This advanced seminar examines the works of two influential Caribbean theorists—Sylvia Wynter and Édouard Glissant—in dialogue with the sources that most shape their works. The course pays particular attention to their...

Semester: Fall Offered: 2019 This course explores the relationship between coloniality, race and ecology through the lens of “catastrophe.” We will examine a variety of theoretical and literary sources that deploy or refute tropes of the “end of the world...

Semester: Spring Offered: 2019 Latina/o literary theory gives a central place to the effects of history and geo-political conditions on the production of knowledge. Therefore, Latina/o theorists begin their critical work by foregrounding the distinct...

Semester: Fall Offered: 2018 This advanced seminar explores the persistent effects of colonialism and its racial hierarchies in our modes of thinking, including concepts that inform the study of religion. The readings for class tell different accounts of...

Semester: Fall Offered: 2017 The purpose of this seminar is to reflect on the study of religion as an intellectual task. We will engage texts in the study of religion to think with them about what is “religion,” how do we think about our own relationship...

Semester: Spring Offered: 2017 The body changed theology. How and for what purpose? What does the role of the body reveal about the aims of contemporary theology and its relationship to ethics? This lecture course introduces Christian theology focusing on...

Semester: Spring Offered: 2016 This course will explore approaches to God-talk that emphasize—both in content and in style—its character as intellectual discourse as well as creative practice. It will engage various contemporary "theopoetic" and "poethics...

Semester: Fall Offered: 2015 This course analyzes the resurgence of vitalisms in contemporary philosophy and theology, in its relationship with the developments in science and technology that motivate it. Link: HDS 2604/ REL 1574

Semester: Fall Offered: 2014 This seminar engages on selected works by Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It focuses on the influence of Christian ideas on his work and the relationship between philosophy and theology. It also engages the works of thinkers influenced...

Semester: Spring Offered: 2020 This advanced seminar examines the works of two influential Caribbean theorists—Sylvia Wynter and Édouard Glissant—in dialogue with the sources that most shape their works. The course pays particular attention to their...