Instructor: Kelly Mee Rich
Wednesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: Barker 269
Enrollment: Limited to 15 students
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This course addresses the role of the archive in literary and cultural studies. It examines the debates, theories, and methods that emerge in relation to archival research, particularly around issues of memory, recovery, access, materiality, and the relationship between research and researcher. The syllabus includes units on power and history, bodies and affect, reading along or against the grain, photography and mediation, colonial archives, the Black Atlantic, and human rights. Assignments are designed to encourage students to a) consider the influence of archival encounters in their specific field and/or discipline; b) develop relationships with local archives and greater orientation in such literary institutions; and c) reflect on how the archive might bear on their approach to literary study. This seminar is open to all graduate students in the arts and humanities.