LIT 5517 Fall 2023 Sperling
This course will examine literary and cultural texts alongside queer theory that respectively offer a focus on ecological concepts. Queer and transgender theoretical approaches studied will also center post- and decolonial thought, Black studies, Indigenous Studies, disability studies and toxicity studies, and will be read alongside authors of (mostly, though not exclusively, American) fiction that may include writers such as N.K. Jemisin, Louise Erdrich, Jeff VanderMeer, Rita Indiana, Elvia Wilk, Larissa Lai, Djuna Barnes, Margaret Atwood, Gloria Anzaldúa, Ayana Lloyd Banwo, and Nalo Hopkinson.
This course aims to involve visits from guest speakers from the humanities and the sciences who are leading thinkers in the field, as well as accessible (optional) outings for students to engage with the region’s richness in biodiversity.
Requirements: This course fulfills the requirement for coursework in the following Areas of Concentration: Post-1900 Literary and Cultural Studies (American, British, Irish); Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Colonial, Postcolonial, and Transnational Literary and Cultural Studies; and a Literary Genre (Fiction). This course also fulfills the Alterity requirement.