Reading & Composition
Study Abroad
This course examines the ways in which literature and film have depicted travel as a form of study, from the 19th century Grand Tour to the institutionalized concept of “Study Abroad” on US campuses today. We will focus on depictions of travel, how new senses of self emerge within new linguistic and cultural contexts, and will also consider a few examples of the influence that foreign writers have had on 20th century American literature in translation.
Leaving Atocha Station, Ben Lerner
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Plein Soleil, René Clément
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Anthony Minghella
A Required Course Reader will also be available with shorter works (poems, short stories, essays, and translations) by: James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jhumpa Lahiri, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, E.M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery, and Arthur Rimbaud.