ENGL 670-201 Studies in LIT: Literature of Science
Online with Dr. Mindi McMann
Summer Session II- Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 5-7:30pm
Online with Dr. Mindi McMann
Summer Session II- Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 5-7:30pm
This graduate seminar explores the intersections of science and literature, focusing specifically on how we tell stories about science, human (and other) bodies, our environment, and biotechnology. Some questions we will consider are: What can fiction tell us about how we understand science and technology? How does science affect our understandings of subjectivity and what constitutes a person? What role does the body play in our understandings of science, and how do these new understandings impact how we tell stories about those bodies and their role in our society? What may separate distinctly human experiences from the experiences of others deemed less than human often by both literary and scientific discourses? What are the ethics of science, as viewed through a literary lens?
ENGL 670-301 Studies in LIT: Migration & Movement in Literature of the African Diaspora
Online with Dr. Samira Abdur-Rahman
Summer Session III- Mondays (Asynchronous/Individual & Collaborative Online Activities); Tuesdays & Thursdays (Synchronous Zoom Meetings) 5-7:45pm; Fridays (Asynchronous/Individual & Collaborative Online Activities)
Summer Session III- Mondays (Asynchronous/Individual & Collaborative Online Activities); Tuesdays & Thursdays (Synchronous Zoom Meetings) 5-7:45pm; Fridays (Asynchronous/Individual & Collaborative Online Activities)
This course engages with themes of migration and movement in African Diasporic literature of North America, the Caribbean, Africa & Europe. The course will think through the political and geographic implications of black migration globally. We will also use movement as a broad term to analyze the importance of wandering, daydreaming, dance and collective action within the literary, musical and visual cultures we study.