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Phenomenology of Literature is a graduate-level course devoted to exploring the vital interchanges between philosophy and literature in the 20th century, focusing on the roots of phenomenology in German philosophy, its adaptations in French theory, and its connections with and expansion to literary writing. Themes may include: the nature of literary experience, including the experience of reading and writing, the acts of attention in literature, phenomenological and literary descriptions of reality, the literary construction of the self, the nature of perspective, intersubjectivity, limit-experiences, the phenomenology of literary imagination, and ecophenomenology in literature. We will read philosophical and theoretical texts by Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Blanchot, Beauvoir, Bachelard, and Ricoeur in connection with literary works, which may include fiction and poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, and Wallace Stevens, among others. This course is taught in English with texts available in translation, but those participants with language capacities in the relevant language are welcome to use original language texts.