Instructor: Stephanie Burt
Day & Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:00–3:00pm
Summer 7-week session | CRN 35152
What makes superheroes popular? How can they help us think about power, belonging, queerness, race, citizenship, art, or disability? In this course we explore those questions in Marvel and DC favorites (especially the X-Men) as well as in older literature, independent comics, novels, and readings from several critical disciplines.
All students are required to attend and participate during the regularly scheduled class time, either by being present in the classroom or via web conference. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. This course counts for the Aesthetics and Culture Gen Ed requirement and is equivalent to Gen Ed 1165. It does not count for the College's divisional distribution requirement.