#  English CVLL. Art of Listening. The Politics and Aesthetics of Sound 

 



 Instructor: [Valeria Luiselli](/people/valeria-luiselli)  
Wednesday, 12:45-2:45 pm | Location: Lamont 401  
*Enrollment: Limited to 12 students*  
[Course Site](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/122040)  
  
This is a course for anyone who is interested in the politics and aesthetics of sound. We will work on developing listening literacy as writers, thinking of it as a source of narrative craft. We will likewise explore listening as a collective practice that allows for intentional solidarity and creative resistance, both environmental and political. Some of our explorations will include: acoustemology, soundscaping, sound and gender, noise vs sound, archives and voices from the past, aural phenomenology, or the geophony-biophony-anthropophony triad. We will be engaging with a wide range of work from different fields, including: Anne Carson, Alice Oswald, Svetlana Alexievich, Layli Long Soldier, Fred Moten, Gloria Anzaldúa, Steven Feld, Roland Barthes, Arlette Farge, and the Ultra-red International Sound Collective.  
  
[Apply via Submittable](https://harvardcw.submittable.com/submit) (deadline: 11:59pm EDT on Saturday, August 26)



 



 

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- [ Creative Writing Workshops ](/course-type/1-creative-writing-workshops)
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- [ Fall 2023 ](/term/fall-2023)