ENG 5049-Fall 2025-Jaffe

Eerie Media: Automata, Amphibia, and Aliens explores collisions and convergences between exciting media-theoretical and eco-critical frameworks for understanding the form factors of modern and contemporary literature, culture, film, and thought. The problem of media that doesn’t mediate–or, does eldritch things for being and becoming, for producing and consuming texts and other artifacts and archives, for oikos and for bios–lies at the submedial heart of our seminar. There will be one presentation and one seminar paper.