Hilary Hart, Ph.D.

Instructor

Education

University of Oregon, Doctor of Philosophy in English, 2004
University of California at Santa Cruz, Bachelor of Arts in Literature 1992

Field of Interest

Nineteenth Century American Literature; Sentimental novel; Early Film

Publications

• Dissertation, Sentimental Spectacles: The Sentimental Novel, Natural Language, and Early Film Performance
• "Do You See What I See? The Impact of Delsarte on Silent Film Acting," in Essays on Fran篩s Delsarte

Courses

COLT 103 Introduction to Comparative Literature III

• For the third and final course in the Introduction to Comparative Literature sequence, students continue their study of world culture but with a focus on visual culture. The theme for this year’s COLT 103 is The End. All things are said to come to an end, from relationships to cultures to entire species. Some ends are gradual while others are catastrophic. We will examine how cultures represent endings and the human experiences of the end. In doing so, we will ask questions like, what do the futuristic imaginings of apocalypse in Flash Gordon have to do with the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? How do representations of the bombings differ in America and Japan? What kind of cultural half-life has the bomb had in world culture, especially in light of nuclear proliferation? To answer these questions and many others, students will read some written texts while studying a variety of visual texts, including films, music videos, anime, postcards, comic strips, posters, book cover art, illustrations from elocution manuals, and still photography.