Expository writing based on analysis of selected masterpieces of ancient and modern literature. R1A satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R1B satisfies the second half.

This course will focus on narrative and film regarding both economic and ecological precarity and their relationship to various historical sites of dispossession, displacement, and vulnerability. With an eye on the contemporary disasters of genocide and pandemic under late-stage capitalism, we will develop an understanding of how forms of embodiment are situated in periods of chronic catastrophes through narrative form.

Expository writing based on analysis of selected masterpieces of ancient and modern literature. R1A satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R1B satisfies the second half.

Expository writing based on analysis of selected masterpieces of ancient and modern literature. R1A satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R1B satisfies the second half.

“He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.” – Job: 14:2

“Ah, but before we begin to read
We must water the flowers” –Melih Cevdet Anday, translated by Efe Murad and Sidney Wade

What is the novel? What function does it have? This course aims to read through various “novels” in order to see the potential the novel has to develop critique–be it political, social, economic, identitarian, etc. With the turn of “anti-reading,” or the perception of reading as “not cool,” in mainstream U.S. and Canadian culture, this class aims to center reading, specifically the novel, as a political act. We will see how the novel has been used by situated and transnational writers to critique the material reality they produce under.

Expository writing based on analysis of selected masterpieces of ancient and modern literature. R1A satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R1B satisfies the second half.

Expository writing based on analysis of selected masterpieces of ancient and modern literature. R1A satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R1B satisfies the second half.

What does queer art look like, sound like, feel like in our bodies? What forms does queer art take? What representational and political strategies does it take up? How are queer art forms connected to collectives and communities? What possibilities do they offer for understanding our past, present, and future?

En este curso se debatirá la nación desde la perspectiva literaria y teórica. ¿Qué es la nación? ¿Cómo se conceptualiza la nación en el ámbito literario y teórico? ¿Qué tiene que aportar el leninismo en el debate sobre la nación? Por medio de las producciones culturales de América Central, México y Cuba, veremos cómo la nación ha llegado a ser violenta, especialmente cuando es controlada por el capitalismo salvaje, y también revolucionaria o capaz de revolución, como es el caso de Cuba y las naciones indígenas de Abya Ayala.