Graduate Courses

Course # (Section)	Title	Day/Times	Instructor	Location	Term	Additional Details
AS.010.606 (01)	The Translingual Historiography of Art	Th 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Liu, Mia Yinxing	Gilman 177	Spring 2026	Description: This seminar takes on the task of tracing the translingual histories of key terms in Art History studies. How did phrases as fundamental as "art," that we take for granted in our writings in English, find its equivalents in different languages? And how did this translational process, often happened in the nineteenth century, engender and shape a translingual renegotiation with each culture's existent traditions and discourses on art? While interrogating the historiography of art through these translingual practices, we will also compile the resources for future communal use. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 8/12 Tags: n/a
AS.010.627 (01)	Catharsis: Creating (with) Greek Tragedy	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Stager, Jennifer	Gilman 177	Spring 2026	Description: This seminar considers the mutual imbrication of Greek tragedy and the visual arts, from descriptions of art in the plays to inspiration drawn by artists from ancient performances. We will read extant plays in translation (those with knowledge of ancient Greek may translate key passages in addition) and trace the materialities of their performances, textual transmissions, and receptions, with particular attention to the ways in which the visual arts inspire and draw inspiration from this body of work. We will visit relevant museum collections in the region and, where possible, see live performances. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 8/12 Tags: HART-ANC
AS.010.667 (01)	The Renaissance in its Global Dimensions 1450-1650	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Campbell, Stephen John	Gilman 177	Spring 2026	Description: A seminar focusing on recent scholarship that seeks to conceptualize a “global Renaissance,” beginning with Italy and the Mediterranean and then addressing exchanges between Europe and Southern/Eastern Asia. Case studies of the mobility of artists and artifacts, artistic adaptation and translation, materials as commodities and bearers of meaning. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/8 Tags: n/a
AS.010.671 (01)	The illuminated charter: visual splendor, performance, and authenticity of medieval legal documents	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Zchomelidse, Nino	Gilman 177	Spring 2026	Description: This course investigates the complexities of medieval legal documents, their specific visuality and materiality, as well as practices of copying and forgery. We will address the aesthetics of legal documents, their graphic signs, seals, and paleography and the authenticating strategies used to corroborate their legitimacy. Another emphasis is set on the performative aspects of the medieval charters in court and church rituals. Comparison with contemporary illuminated sacred books will reveal the tight connections of monastic scriptoria and royal/imperial chanceries. The geographic focus is set wide, ranging from medieval Spain, to Carolingian and Ottonian chanceries in France and Germany, to the papal court in Rome and the imperial and monastic scriptoria in Byzantium. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.709 (01)	Decadent Images: Excess, Promiscuity, Utopia	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Merback, Mitchell; Schopp, Caroline Lillian	Gilman 177	Spring 2026	Description: This co-taught graduate seminar explores two interconnected concepts of decadence across a wide range of artistic works and art historical contexts, pivoting around the fin-de-siècle to span the pre-modern to the contemporary. Decadence names, on the one hand, a cultural or historical condition summed up in the cliché of “decline and fall”: civilization stagnates, consumption turns obsessive, vulgarity subsumes aesthetic taste, and politics turn regressive in an irreversible slide toward ruin. Decadence in this sense is a term of radical negativity. On the other hand, as a mode of symbolic behavior, decadence is surprisingly ambivalent. It describes both the over-consumption associated with ruling elites and forms of popular festivity, such as masquerade and carnival, that license promiscuous proclivities otherwise meant to remain private. These two concepts of decadence, like their predominant iconography, are traversed by misogyny. They are also accompanied historically by the pursuit of utopia—and the expression of feminist and queer forms of life. We consider how a diverse range of artists—from Baldung and Bruegel to Goya and Moreau, from Sarah Bernhardt and Claude Cahun to Florentina Holzinger—have represented, enacted, and responded to the tensions inherent in cultural decadence and the peculiar forms of historical consciousness it awakens. What is at stake when artists mobilize a particular decadent image—consumptive, digestive, scatological, parodic, pathological, perverse, erotic—and what forms of interpretation do these gestures demand? To the degree that decadence engulfs us today, this seminar seeks to explore the capacities of the arts, past and present, to recalibrate culture, aesthetics, and the ethics of taste. Readings include: Proudhon, Sade, Baudelaire, Cesare Lombroso, Max Nordau, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Bataille, Bakhtin, Kristeva, Sianne Ngai, Elaine Showalter, Jack Halberstam, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Sarah Ahmed among others. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/10 Tags: HART-MODERN, HART-MED, HART-THRY
AS.010.802 (01)	Special Research/Problems		Campbell, Stephen John		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.802 (02)	Special Research/Problems		Feldman, Marian		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.802 (03)	Special Research/Problems		Merback, Mitchell		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.802 (04)	Special Research/Problems		Schopp, Caroline Lillian		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.802 (05)	Special Research/Problems		Stager, Jennifer		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.802 (06)	Special Research/Problems		Pereda, Felipe		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.802 (07)	Special Research/Problems		Liu, Mia Yinxing		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.802 (08)	Special Research/Problems		Zchomelidse, Nino		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.802 (09)	Special Research/Problems		Hyman, Aaron M.		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.802 (10)	Special Research/Problems		Brown, Rebecca Mary		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.802 (11)	Special Research/Problems		Rustem, Unver		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.804 (01)	Individual Work		Campbell, Stephen John		Spring 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.804 (02)	Individual Work		Feldman, Marian		Spring 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.804 (03)	Individual Work		Merback, Mitchell		Spring 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.804 (04)	Individual Work		Schopp, Caroline Lillian		Spring 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.804 (05)	Individual Work		Stager, Jennifer		Spring 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.804 (06)	Individual Work		Pereda, Felipe		Spring 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.804 (07)	Individual Work		Liu, Mia Yinxing		Spring 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.804 (08)	Individual Work		Zchomelidse, Nino		Spring 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.804 (09)	Individual Work		Hyman, Aaron M.		Spring 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.804 (10)	Individual Work		Brown, Rebecca Mary		Spring 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.804 (11)	Individual Work		Rustem, Unver		Spring 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.815 (01)	History of Art Teaching Assistant		Feldman, Marian		Spring 2026	Description: For History of Art PhD students that are actively participating as a TA as required by the program. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/8 Tags: n/a
AS.010.815 (02)	History of Art Teaching Assistant - 3rd Year Students		Feldman, Marian		Spring 2026	Description: For History of Art PhD students that are actively participating as a TA as required by the program. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 8/8 Tags: n/a
AS.010.815 (03)	History of Art Teaching Assistant - 4th Year Students		Feldman, Marian		Spring 2026	Description: For History of Art PhD students that are actively participating as a TA as required by the program. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 8/8 Tags: n/a
AS.133.717 (01)	Akhenaten, Nefertiti and the Armana Period	WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Bryan, Betsy Morrell	Gilman 238	Spring 2026	Description: This course examines the visual expressions of the revolutionary pharaoh Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti. The artistic changes that this reign introduced will be discussed through art historical, religious, political, and sociological lenses. Who was the king's sole god Aten and how did he and his visual appearance impact Egypt and the ancient world 1350 to 1330 BCE? Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 10/12 Tags: n/a
AS.010.807 (01)	Summer Research		Campbell, Stephen John		Summer 2026	Description: Summer research for doctoral students Credits: 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 75/75 Tags: n/a
AS.010.807 (02)	Summer Research		Feldman, Marian		Summer 2026	Description: Summer research for doctoral students Credits: 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 74/75 Tags: n/a
AS.010.807 (03)	Summer Research		Merback, Mitchell		Summer 2026	Description: Summer research for doctoral students Credits: 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 73/75 Tags: n/a
AS.010.807 (04)	Summer Research		Hyman, Aaron M.		Summer 2026	Description: Summer research for doctoral students Credits: 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 75/75 Tags: n/a
AS.010.807 (05)	Summer Research		Zchomelidse, Nino		Summer 2026	Description: Summer research for doctoral students Credits: 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 75/75 Tags: n/a
AS.010.807 (06)	Summer Research		Brown, Rebecca Mary		Summer 2026	Description: Summer research for doctoral students Credits: 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 75/75 Tags: n/a
AS.010.807 (07)	Summer Research		Stager, Jennifer		Summer 2026	Description: Summer research for doctoral students Credits: 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 74/75 Tags: n/a
AS.010.807 (08)	Summer Research		Rustem, Unver		Summer 2026	Description: Summer research for doctoral students Credits: 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 75/75 Tags: n/a
AS.010.807 (09)	Summer Research		Schopp, Caroline Lillian		Summer 2026	Description: Summer research for doctoral students Credits: 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 74/75 Tags: n/a
AS.010.807 (10)	Summer Research		Liu, Mia Yinxing		Summer 2026	Description: Summer research for doctoral students Credits: 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 74/75 Tags: n/a
AS.010.646 (01)	Philoctetes and the Art of Medicine	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Stager, Jennifer	Gilman 75	Fall 2026	Description: Through the prism of the Greek tragedy Philoctetes by Sophocles, this course explore the history of ancient Greek medicine as it intersects with the history of art. We will cover themes of war, wounds, isolation, incarceration, pain, pharmaka, and friendship through a close-reading of the text in translation, close looking at associated images, and attention to the play's many receptions. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 6/8 Tags: n/a
AS.010.647 (01)	Art and the Body in the Ancient Americas	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Earley, Caitlin	Gilman 177	Fall 2026	Description: What is a body, and how do bodies make meaning in art? This course investigates the concept of the body and its expression in Indigenous art from the Ancient Americas. As a site of human experience, a node of relational exchanges, and an expressive and constructive force, the body offers us a window into ways of being and understanding in the Americas. What can the way the body is created, represented, and manipulated tell us about attitudes toward power, religion, and the structure of the world? We will consider case studies from three cultural groups: the Moche, the Maya, and the Aztec. Our investigation is focused on the human body, and explores bodies that are living, dead, gendered, fragmented, multiple, and divine. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/8 Tags: HART-ANC
AS.010.662 (01)	Script, Character, Scribble: Writing and Pseudo-Writing in Modern and Contemporary Art	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Brown, Rebecca Mary	Gilman 177	Fall 2026	Description: Almost readable, but not quite: artists in the twentieth and twenty-first century played with script of all kinds, from ancient glyphs and Persian script to Roman typefaces and Korean Hangul. Artists also scribbled in ways that evoke writing without script or meaning. This course takes on the question of meaning-making in art through the form of script—flirting with that tantalizing feeling that we can almost read the work of art through the marks on its surface. We will engage with artists from around the world whose work grapples with knowledge, meaning, and script, and discuss the limits and possibilities of legibility, knowing, and language. In addition to painting and drawing, we will also discuss conceptual art, installation, video, architecture, tapestry, ceramics, graphic novel forms, book arts, and sculpture. We will have opportunities to situate these works within longer histories of script and pseudo-script and image-text relations. Our discussion-driven seminars will be guided by readings in art history and theory. The course carries no expectation that you are multi-lingual or have experience with multiple scripts. Central to our semester will be group trips to see art in person in DC and Baltimore. Assignments include an option for short, focused writing with feedback and opportunities to experiment with genre and to rewrite, or a longer seminar paper, chosen in consultation with the professor. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/7 Tags: n/a
AS.010.683 (01)	Three Artists (Three Sick Women): Art, Illness, Death	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Schopp, Caroline Lillian	Gilman 177	Fall 2026	Description: What happens when the artist becomes sick? How does illness become the subject of artistic practice? And what does art concerned with sickness tell us about the entanglement of gender and medicine in contemporary life? This course draws inspiration from Anne Wagner’s book, Three Artists, Three Women (1996), in which she explores an expectation that undergirds modernist art history: that the work of artists who are also women must reveal their femininity. We take up the challenge to this normative expectation with the work of three artists (who happened also to be three sick women) active in the post Second World War period. A German-Jewish immigrant to the US, Eva Hesse is known today for the fragile latex sculptures she made before dying from a brain tumor. Alina Szapocznikow, a Polish concentration camp survivor, employed her sculptural practice of body casting to index the symptoms and effects of her metastatic breast cancer. Hannah Wilke, an American feminist performance artist, painstakingly documented her treatments for terminal lymphoma. These artists’ careful explorations of their bodies and their illnesses trouble assumptions about femininity and feminism in the late twentieth century. They also afford an introduction to post-minimalism in the US, nouveau réalisme is Europe, and international conceptual and performance art. We constellate their interconnected work with that of others whose practices are infused in diverse ways by illness and its permeable definition: Indira Allegra, Cassils, Bob Flanagan, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu, David Wojnarowicz, Florentina Holzinger. Readings in art history will be complemented with historical and contemporary approaches in feminist theory and critical disability studies, as well as a selection of literary and hybrid-form writings on art, illness, and death, including: Ingeborg Bachmann, Johanna Hedva, Audre Lorde, Paul Preciado, Gillian Rose. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/10 Tags: HART-MODERN
AS.010.801 (01)	Special Rsrch & Problems		Campbell, Stephen John		Fall 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.801 (02)	Special Rsrch & Problems		Feldman, Marian		Fall 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.801 (03)	Special Rsrch & Problems		Merback, Mitchell		Fall 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.801 (04)	Special Rsrch & Problems		Liu, Mia Yinxing		Fall 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.801 (06)	Special Rsrch & Problems		Schopp, Caroline Lillian		Fall 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.801 (08)	Special Rsrch & Problems		Zchomelidse, Nino		Fall 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.801 (10)	Special Rsrch & Problems		Brown, Rebecca Mary		Fall 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.801 (13)	Special Research & Problems		Stager, Jennifer		Fall 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.801 (14)	Special Research & Problems		Stager, Jennifer		Fall 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.801 (15)	Special Rsrch & Problems		Rustem, Unver		Fall 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.801 (16)	Special Rsrch & Problems		Earley, Caitlin		Fall 2026	Description: This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.803 (01)	Individual Work		Campbell, Stephen John		Fall 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.803 (02)	Individual Work		Feldman, Marian		Fall 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.803 (03)	Individual Work		Merback, Mitchell		Fall 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.803 (04)	Individual Work		Liu, Mia Yinxing		Fall 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.803 (06)	Individual Work		Stager, Jennifer		Fall 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.803 (07)	Individual Work		Schopp, Caroline Lillian		Fall 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.803 (08)	Individual Work		Zchomelidse, Nino		Fall 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.803 (10)	Individual Work		Brown, Rebecca Mary		Fall 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.803 (13)	Individual Work		Rustem, Unver		Fall 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.803 (16)	Individual Work		Earley, Caitlin		Fall 2026	Description: Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers. Credits: 3.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.815 (01)	History of Art Teaching Assistant		Feldman, Marian		Fall 2026	Description: For History of Art PhD students. This indicates they are actively participating as a TA as required by the program. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/8 Tags: n/a
AS.300.621 (01)	Thinking with Accidents	Th 1:45PM - 4:15PM	Siraganian, Lisa	Gilman 208	Fall 2026	Description: When is an action or a work of art just an accident--and when should it be called intentional? This course explores the problems and complications of willed actions, accidents, and unintended consequences. We will follow (primarily but not exclusively) a range of different modernist writers, surrealist and dada artists, noir filmmakers, and twentieth-century philosophers as they contemplate what an intentional action is or is not. What can these works tell us about how we make meaning at the limits of our control? Includes literature of Wallace Stevens, Nathanael West, James Cain, Patricia Highsmith, and Ann Petry; films of Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and Justine Triet; art of Marcel Duchamp and André Breton; and philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Philippa Foot. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/12 Tags: n/a