Dr. Pravina Cooper

Dr. Pravina Cooper

A Bit About Me
University of California Los Angeles, Doctorate in Comparative Literature
Transnational Literatures (emphasis on English and French Modernisms) and Media Studies

Selected Courses
CWL 124: Introduction to World Theater
CWL 320: Comic Spirit
CWL 412: Art and Literature
CWL 100: World Literature
CWL 334: Introduction to East Asian Literature and Culture
CWL 161: Reading the World

Philosophy
In learning about foundational texts of world literature, I hope students will be excited and inspired by the imaginative productions from around the world.  By exploring works over time and across genres, for example, Shakespeare to Steven Colbert in the Comic Spirit course, diverse writers such as Haruki Murakami and Salman Rushdie in World Literature courses, the varieties of postmodernisms in Art and Literature or Greek to Irish theater in theater classes, I hope students will be able to see the continuity of the human artistic enterprise. Since cinema captures the mythology (and tensions) of modern existence so well, I incorporate it whenever possible.  By this  interdisciplinary  and context based approach,  students will be able to not only enjoy some of the most brilliant works of all times,  but be able to see the relevance of these to their world.