A century ago the late and rapid industrialization of Germany and Austria resulted in the radical transformation of society, including new and unstable configurations of gender roles and sexuality. Artists and intellectuals throughout the English-speaking world avidly read the work of German sexologists (who first coined the term homosexual), the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud, and the now nearly forgotten sexual theories of Otto Weininger. In this course we will read these theories alongside the literature of the era, beginning with the fin-de-siecle, moving through Expressionism, and culminating in the seemingly liberal Weimar era and its abrupt end in 1933. Readings may include theory by Kraft-Ebing, Ulrichs, Freud, Weininger, and Hirschfeld; literature by Theodor Fontane, Frank Wedekind, Arthur Schnitzler, Carl Sternheim, Oscar Kokoschka, Thomas Mann, Klaus Mann, and Anna Weirauch; and the films The Blue Angel by Joseph von Sternberg (Marlene Dietrich's breakthrough film) and Girls in Uniform by Leontine Sagan. All readings and discussion in English. Format: seminar. Requirements: one presentation, one shorter (6-8 pp.) paper, and one longer (~15 pp.) paper. No prerequisites. Enrollment limit: 30 (expected: 20).