Professor: Abdur-Rahman
Meetings: Summer Session II June 16-July 17
Mondays -Online Independent & Collaborative Activities & Virtual Student Hours
Tuesdays & Thursdays – Zoom Meeting 5-7:45pm
Fridays -Online Independent & Collaborative Activities
Note: There are no in-person meetings on campus.
This course centers the Afro-Gothic as “a cogent frame through which to consider how black creators reckon with—and at times lean into—the ever-presence of death, unalleviated grief, and fear of the dark” (Cooksey and Thomas, 2022). The course problematizes the uses of Blackness/Africanness in gothic literature and explores how black creators invert and revise concepts of darkness, evil and monsters. We will discuss works by W.E.B Du Bois, Harriet Jacobs, Toni Morrison, Clarence Majors, Mohale Mashigo and Tananarive Due. We will also study the presence of Afro-Gothic aesthetics in contemporary film and music.
ENGL 670-301 Studies in LIT: Literature of Witness
Professor: Neuman
Meetings: Summer Session III July 21-August 21
Online Synchronous 6-8pm the following days:
Tuesday July 22
Thursday July 24
Tuesday July 29
Thursday July 31
Tuesday August 5
Thursday August 7
Tuesday August 12
Tuesday August 19
The other days are asynchronous.