courses for Fall 2022 | French and Francophone Studies

	Title	Instructor	Location	Time	Description	Section Description	Cross Listings
FREN 5120-401	French and Italian Film Noir	Philippe Charles Met	WILL 516	T 3:30 PM-5:29 PM	Topics vary. Please see the department's website for the current course description: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/french/pc		CIMS5120401, COML5120401
FREN 6010-401	Language Teaching and Learning			W 1:45 PM-3:44 PM	Please check the department's website for the course description. https://www.sas.upenn.edu/french/pc		ROML6010401
FREN 6050-401	Modern Literary Theory and Criticism	Ian Fleishman Andrea Goulet	36MK 112	M 1:45 PM-4:44 PM	This course will provide an overview of major European thinkers in critical theory of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will pay particular attention to critical currents that originated in Eastern European avant-garde and early socialist contexts and their legacies and successors. Topics covered will include: Russian Formalism and its successors in Structuralism and Deconstruction (Shklovsky, Levi-Strauss, Jakobson, Derrida); Bakhtin and his circle, dialogism and its later western reception; debates over aesthetics and politics of the 1930s (Lukacs, Brecht, Adorno, Benjamin, Radek, Clement Greenberg); the October group; Marxism, new Left criticism, and later lefts (Althusser, Williams, Eagleton, Jameson, Zizek).	This course will provide an overview of major European thinkers in literary theory of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will pay particular attention to the following movements: Structuralism and Deconstruction (Levi-Strauss, Jakobson, Barthes, Derrida), Social Theory (Foucault, Ranciere), Psychoanalysis (Freud, Lacan, Abraham and Torok), Schizoanalysis (Deleuze and Guattari), Feminism and Queer Theory (Irigary, Kristeva, Sedgwick), Spatial Theory (Bachelard, DeCerteau, Lefebvre), and the Frankfurt School (Adorno and Horkheimer, Kracauer). Readings and discussion will be in English.	COML6050401, ENGL7905401, GRMN6050401, ITAL6050401, REES6435401