Twentieth-Century Studies
The Graduate Center offers an interdisciplinary concentration in Twentieth-Century Studies, with an emphasis on the humanities. Participating students take two core courses designed for the concentration and select additional courses in twentieth-century areas from the doctoral programs at the Graduate Center. A dissertation workshop for students in the concentration is also offered on a regular basis.
The concentration’s core courses introduce students to theoretical concepts common to work in twentieth-century study across a range of humanistic disciplines; they examine the way these terms provide a language for understanding the twentieth century as a historical period and a field of inquiry; and they explore in-depth interdisciplinary approaches to a variety of twentieth-century topics. The courses selected for the concentration emphasize the application of theory and contemporary critical thinking to twentieth-century subject matter. The goal of the concentration is to create a space and intellectual community for students and faculty from different disciplines who wish to investigate the multiple domains and narratives of modern studies. Students interested in pursuing studies in the interdisciplinary concentration in Twentieth-Century Studies must be enrolled in one of the participating doctoral programs.
For further information, interested students should contact
Professor Nancy K. Miller , Ph.D. Program in
English, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, 1-212-817-8315.
