Diversity in Literature

Instructor: Deidre Lynch and Neel Mukherjee Monday & Wednesday, 1:30-2:45pm | Location: TBD All literature was contemporary at some point, but the literature that is contemporary now provides special opportunities for enjoying, questioning, and...

Instructor: Jesse McCarthy Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45 am | Location: Emerson 104 What does freedom have to do with our ability to read and write? How have writers addressed the conflicting and contradictory concept of race by writing about it? This...

Instructor: Pamela Klassen Tuesday, 12:00-2:00pm | Location: Barker 269 Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This seminar focuses on the public memory of settler colonialism and Indigenous dispossession in North America and Turtle Island, with a focus on...

Instructor: James Engell Wednesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: Barker 269 Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course site The literatures of race and slavery, gender, empire, democracy, and revolution that shaped our modern world. Excerpts from Dryden...

Instructor: Maria Dikcis Thursday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: Lamont Library 401 Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course site This course will introduce students to critical race approaches to digital culture, primarily through Asian American, Black...

Instructor: Valeria Luiselli Wednesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: Lamont 401 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course focuses on the histories of extractivism and violence against land and bodies in the Americas, centering on ways in which writing...

Instructor: Nick White Thursday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: Lamont 401 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Is there a queer aesthetic? Or is there a particularly queer way to tell a story? Do our lived experiences as queer folk affect the kinds of stories...

Instructor: Tara Menon Monday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBA Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course examines a range of realist novels set in India. We will read novels set during British colonial rule by British writers (Kipling, Forster, Orwell)...

Instructor: Derek Miller Tuesday, 9:45-11:45am Location: Barker 269 Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. This course examines recent scripted theater by American playwrights. We will consider the shape of the American theater, contemporary theatrical...

Instructor: Joan Naviyuk Kane Day & Time: Thursday 12-2:45pm Course Website This poetry workshop centers the work of BIPOC writers through intensive study of poetry writing and the writing process, focusing on craft techniques of imagery, rhythm, and...