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Fall 2001 & Spring 2002
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Mellon Fellows
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Apocalypse and Millennium: Classical
to Modern Models
HIST 101.302
Monday 2:00-5:00
Instructor:
Nina Caputo
PHF Mellon Fellow,
History
Fellow Are predictions of apocalypse unique
to this time and place, or do they have their origins elsewhere? This
class sets out to consider the religious, historical and literary roots
of the Western fascination with the millennium and apocalypticism. We
will begin our survey with a discussion of
biblical sources. Then we will trace these themes through late antiquity
and the middle ages, ending with a discussion of apocalypse and millennium.
Students will conduct research on an apocalyptic movement, figure, or
narrative of their choice; and write a paper demonstrating how apocalyptic
symbols, narrative structures or imagery from the biblical and late-antique
sources were adapted in that literature. Class sessions will be comprised
of close examination of texts and discussion of
modern scholarship.
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Nina Caputo
Currarino,
HIST104-304
Foster,
MUSC016-301
Iskin,
ARTH100-301
Rudolph,
HIST101-301
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Work and Leisure
HIST
104.304
Monday 2:00-5:00
Instructor:
Rosanne Currarino
PHF Mellon Fellow,
History
Work and what is now its opposite,
leisure, are central elements of American culture today. This course will
examine how the cultural and social meanings of work and leisure have
changed over time in the United States. Focusing on the period 1865 -
1985, we will investigate the ways in which men and women have understood
the meanings of their work experiences and leisure pursuits, and we will
also look at the ways that images and ideas about work and leisure have
shaped American culture, representations of gender and class, and the
relative significance of work time and leisure time. The course will begin
by studying what Americans understood as the "separation" of work and
leisure in the antebellum period and then turn to an investigation of
that separation's implications for class and gender in the nineteenth
and then the twentieth centuries.
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Literature and Music in the Long 19th Century
MUSC
016.301
Monday & Wednesday 3:00 - 4:30
Instructor:
Daniel Foster
PHF Mellon Fellow,
Music
This seminar explores musical adaptations of literature
during the period often referred to as "the long 19th century,"
roughly the 1770's to World War i. Students will analyze literary and
musical works not only on their own terms but also in connection with
each other. These points of
intersection between literature and music raise such questions as: Can
an orchestra narrate? Does music have a past tense? Is an opera libretto
like a movie script? Do certain literary texts invite musical adaptation?
Is poetic rhetoric equivalent to musical rhetoric? By addressing such
questions about literary and musical techniques for creating symbolic
time—the imaginary world of "as if"—we can better
understand how the fine arts shape one another. This seminar is designed
to appeal to students of either literature or music across a broad range
of periods and nations, but no
specialized knowledge is required.
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Art & Mass Media: Theories and Practices from the Late 18th to the
Early 20th Century
ARTH 100.301
Monday 3-6
Instructor:
Ruth E. Iskin
PHF Mellon Fellow,
Art History
The 19th century saw the emergence
of new mass-media images that radically changed image-making, launched
photography, modern advertising and early film, and reshaped ways of looking
at images and experiencing time in ways that continue to resonate today.
This seminar introduces students to interdisciplinary approaches to art,
images, media, new technologies, and exhibiting art in museums. It includes
critical analysis of paintings focusing for example on how Manet, Degas
and Seurat represented mass culture entertainment of the Cafe Concert
in the late nineteenth-century, and how in the early twentieth-century,
Cubist and Dada artists and how in the early twentieth-century, Cubist
and Dada artists incorporated newspapers and advertising into their art.
The seminar discusses diverse images of mass media including advertising;
photography and color lithography, and forms of mass-media entertainment
of panoramas and early film. We will discuss these issues: How do we understand
the interrelationships of art and mass media? How do colonialism, race,
class, and gender figure in art and mass media images of modernity? How
do art, media images, and the social practices of looking associated with
them, shape modern viewers and their experiences of time? The seminar
will introduce participants to theories and scholarship in art history
and in diverse disciplines which contribute to studying art, media, and
visual culture.
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Creating Britain: Memory and Revolution
HIST
101.301
2:00 - 5:00
Instructor:
Julia Rudolph
PHF Mellon Fellow,
History
This seminar will examine important cultural
and national transformations in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries—a
time in which both a British nation and a commercial culture were being
forged. We will pay particular attention to the ways in which Britain's
memory and interpretation of her past
helped to shape her future. What were some of the effects of civil war
and revolution on succeeding generations of Britons? How did Britain's
experience of revolution in the 17th century affect her reaction to events
in America and France, and in Scotland and Ireland, in the 18th century?
What,
more generally, can we discover about the relationship between memory
and culture? In looking at these British attitudes towards the past we
will also be exploring different conceptions of time—political, religious,
legal, scientific, royal and poetic means of charting past, present and
future—that shaped interpretations not only of events, but also of
national identity. Coursematerials will include primary documents, interpretive
essays and texts, and films. Requirements will
include weekly readings, class discussion, analytical papers and presentations.
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