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This course focuses on Middle Byzantine notation (12th-14th c) as it appears in two genres of Byzantine liturgical poetry: mainly in stichera and heirmoi. Stichera are monostrophic hymns, some are idiomela, having their own melodies and others are prosomoia following standard memlodies contrafacta. Heirmoi are model melodies for singing the strophes (troparia) of the Kanones that are polystrophic hymns. Stichera and heirmoi will be systematically taught in the rhythmic interpretation discovered by Ioannis Arvanitis. This interpretation will be applied for the transcription in staff notation or for direct singing from the manuscripts, again focusing on heirmoi and stichera. We will also study some melismatic chants. Many of the music examples will be from the chants for Lent, Easter and Pentecost. The course will feature as a guest speaker Dr. Ioannis Arvanitis, Associate Professor of the Music of the Orthodox Eastern Church at the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University (Corfu).

In the past few years, campus protests and petitions have brought about a remarkable reckoning with systemic, curricular structures of inequality, underscoring the epistemic violence of the privileging of white, western, cisheteropatriarchal intellectual traditions in the academy. This seminar mobilizes multiple approaches and orientations from anti-colonial, postcolonial, and decolonial traditions to study discourses of race, caste, indigeneity, gender, and sexuality across a variety of regional and cultural contexts. We will engage with a range of materials -- written texts, films, visual and performance art. In addition to theoretical and historical engagements with decolonization and decoloniality, we will begin to explore decolonial praxis through somatic workshops (including basket-weaving and dance) and through radical pedagogy and critical university studies frameworks.

Museums have a history. This course questions how museums have shaped and been shaped by society, from their origins in early modern cabinets of curiosity to their contemporary transformation into virtual galleries and online exhibitions. Incorporating visits to Stanford's diverse collections, this seminar considers the histories of museums as public institutions and explores key concepts guiding the acquisition and display of art.

What impact do images have on our reading of a text? How do words influence our understanding of images or our reading of pictures? What makes a visual interpretation of written words or a verbal rendering of an image successful? These questions will guide our investigation of the manifold connections between words and images in this course on intermediality and the relations and interrelations between writing and art from classical antiquity to the present. Readings and discussions will include such topics as the life and afterlife in word and image of Ovid's "Metamorphoses," Dante's "Divine Comedy," Ludovico Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso," and John Milton's "Paradise Lost;" the writings and creative production of poet-artists Michelangelo Buonarroti, William Blake, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; innovations in and correspondences between literature and art in the modern period, from symbolism in the nineteenth century through the flourishing of European avant-garde movements in the twentieth century.

Since the emergence of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), artists have been central to the fight against the state's violence and neglect of those with HIV/AIDS. In this story, however, race and gender are marginalized as frameworks that shape this arts activism. This course takes up black art production that responds to the HIV/AIDS crisis to provide a longer, fuller, and more vital cultural narrative. By centering blackness in this story, we can ask how does dis-ease,referencing both infection and an aesthetically and structurally anxious relation to death,shape black art practices and lives? How have race and gender been used to conceptualize disease? And how do filmmakers, abstract painters, photographers, and poets help us to better comprehend blackness, gender, and sexuality under the threat of disease? After providing an overview of the relation between blackness, sexuality, and dis-ease and the emergence of the AIDS crisis, we will consider canonical works from the height of the crisis produced by filmmaker Marlon Riggs and poet Essex Hemphill. From there, we will move to themes of black art and mourning, black women's under cited activism, the controversial use of documentary photography in the crisis, black masculinity, diasporic responses, and the urgency and erasure of the ongoing crisis. Each week we will focus on a cultural text (film, painting, photograph, poem), a reading to provide historical context, and critical theories that will illuminate the art works' formal qualities and importance for our now.

Transoceanic Black and Brown intimacy is under-researched and under-represented in the scholarship on race and ethnicity. This seminar will engage with the enduring legacies of connection between Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean forged through the colonial displacements of enslavement and indenture, as well as migration. Through the work of Lisa Lowe, Edouard Glissant, Stuart Hall, as well as a range of contemporary scholarship, we will parse the theoretical frameworks of intimacy, creolization, and Relation. The seminar also includes weekly screenings of films that draw our attention to the specificities of region, to structuring hierarchies of racial, ethnic, and caste affiliation, and invite us to relate large-scale continental intimacies with granular histories of cross-ethnic and inter-racial relation, filled with the messy collision of connections and antagonisms, frictions and solidarities. In The Intimacies of Four Continents, Lisa Lowe recommends we focus on "the convergence of asymmetries rather than the imperatives of identity," referring to the asymmetries of contact, encounter, convergence, and solidarity. Edouard Glissant sees collisions between cultures as productive of Relation, where in the multiplicity and diversity of beings in Relation, "each and every identity is extended through a relationship with the Other." This seminar attends to the fractious realities of these relations, and equally to political, artistic, romantic and other collaborations that attest to coalitional solidarity and sensuous intimacies. Undergraduates who wish to enroll in the seminar are advised get in touch with the instructor.  

Drugs have profoundly shaped human culture across space and time, from ancient cave paintings to the psychedelic Sixties and contemporary opioid epidemic. This seminar explores the relationship between visual culture and "drugs," broadly conceived, asking how consciousness-altering substances have been understood and represented in various contexts. We will examine how drugs blur boundaries between nature and culture and describe major symbolic, narrative, and aesthetic structures by considering representations of drug use across media. This interdisciplinary seminar integrates perspectives from art, literature, popular culture, theory, film, philosophy, and science. Topics include perception, subjectivity, addiction, deviancy, capitalism, politics, technology, globalization, and critical approaches to race, class, sexuality, and gender. Limited to graduate students; undergraduates must contact instructor for permission (seniors only).

Fashion, art, and representation in Europe and the US between 1860 and today. Beginning with Baudelaire, Impressionism, the rise of the department store and the emergence of haute couture, culminating in the spectacular fashion exhibitions mounted at the Metropolitan and other major art museums in recent years. Students participate actively in class discussion and pursue related research projects.

What falls below, or beyond, rational inquiry? How do we write about the awe we feel in front of certain works of art, in reading lines of poetry or philosophy, or watching a scene in a film without ruining the feeling that drove us to write in the first place? In this course, we will focus on a heterogeneous series of texts, artworks, and physical locations to discuss these questions. Potential topics include The Book of Exodus, the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin and of Elizabeth Bishop, the location of Harriet Tubman's childhood, the poetry and drawings of Else Lasker-Schüler, the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, the art of James Turrell, and the films of Luchino Visconti.