English 290mh. Migration and the Humanities

Instructor: Homi Bhabha
Spring 2027
TBD | Location: TBD
Spring 2026
Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD
Enrollment: Limited to 15 students

By focusing on literary narratives, cultural representations, and critical theories, this course explores ways in which issues related to migration create rich and complex interdisciplinary conversations. How do humanistic disciplines address these issues—human rights, cultural translation, global justice, security, citizenship, social discrimination, biopolitics—and what contributions do they make to the “home” disciplines of migration studies such as law, political science, and sociology? How do migration narratives compel us to revise our concepts of culture, polity, neighborliness, and community? We will explore diverse aspects of migration from existential, ethical, and philosophical perspectives while engaging with specific regional and political histories.

Space permitting, this course is open to qualified undergraduates. Undergraduates, please contact Prof. Bhabha before classes begin if you would like to take the course.

Note: Cannot be taken for credit if ROM-STD 290 already complete.