Everett Rowson
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Kevorkian Center, Rm. 304
50 Washington Sq. South
Phone: 212-998-8880
E-Mail: er67@nyu.edu
Dept Website
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/mideast/index.html
UG Course Offerings
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/mideast/Courses/course_undergrad.html
The department offers a Middle Eastern Studies and South Asian Studies minor. Requirements can be found here.
Middle Eastern Studies
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/mideast/Programs/bachelor_arts.html
South Asian Studies
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/mideast/Programs/prog_southasian.html
Language placement test are offered a week before the start of the Fall semester. For morei information regarding language placement, please contact the department.
Overview:
The Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies provides training in the study of the history, societies and cultures, languages, literatures, and religions of the Middle East.
Registration:
Non-majors can general register for classes via Albert. However, if a class is open to MEIS students only and non-majors would like to take it, they should contact the professor of that particular class and ask for written permission.
For Spring 2010, the department would like to recommend this new course:
V77.0190 Topics in the 20th Century: Reading Orhan Pamuk: The East, The West and the Novel
Friday 9:45-12:30
Sibel Erol
Call Number: 76821
This course will examine the translated works of the Nobel Prize- winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk. Pamuk’s most favorite literary form is the novel. He has played with this genre, putting it in conversation with and opposition to a variety of other forms, ranging from painting, photography, and miniatures to theater, poetry, comic books, encyclopedias, and in his latest novel, museum making and exhibitions. We will read all his translated works, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name is Red, Snow, Istanbul, and The Museum of Innocence, to see how he transforms the form of the novel, all the while looking for “the secret center,” which he says all good novels have.
In our investigation, we will pay close attention to the problems of similarity and difference, self and other, that get represented as East and West. We will ask if his works are examples of “World Literature”, and study how he is able to write about Turkish society and, yet, appeal to an international audience.
Liberal Arts Core:
Humanities
