Studies Of Ethnicity Race Disability Gender And Sexuality

This course explores contemporary Native American film by directors from an extensive range of tribal nations, geographies, and genders across time and space. We’ll look at early films of the silent era by the first Native director like James Young Deer (Delaware), including White Fawn’s Devotion (1910), consider American Indian...

Queering Native Film/Queer Native Film This course explores contemporary Native American and Indigenous film by directors from a range of gender expressions, sexual orientations, and geographies. Leveraging creative and critical works that frame the visual trope of the Native as abject, queer, and liminal, we will seek out films that...

Studies special topics in multicultural literature; specially designed for English majors. Topics vary each semester. Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only. Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities Departmental Category: Multicultural and Gender Studies

This course is what the title promises: an introduction to LGBT literature. Our focus will be on the American tradition, beginning with the historical question of when identifiably LGBT literature emerges. Moving into contemporary culture, we will ask questions concerning the relationship of gay identity to gay writing: must one...

Explores literary form and language in a wide range of cultures, introducing students to the global English literary tradition, comprising multiple lineages. Introduces students to poetry, narrative, drama, orality, media, digitality, and/or other genres drawn from diverse traditions, each locally historicized and contextualized. Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts...

This seminar provides a selective overview of historic and contemporary trends in Native American and Indigenous Studies academic scholarship as well as contemporary Indigenous methodologies and theory. The readings cover a range of Eurowestern disciplines and Indigenous epistemic practices, allowing the course to be accessible to students from a range...

This course explores European and American discourses, ideologies, and representations of the Middle East from the 19th century to the present. How, we ask, was a region as ethnically, religiously, culturally, and linguistically diverse as it is vast rendered amenable to the European imperial enterprise and its more recent, American...

In this course we will read a variety of women writers from the 18th and 19th centuries. Romanticism (1750-1832) is often called the Age of Revolution because it overturned all kinds of traditional, conformist thinking as well as sparking revolutions in America and France. During this dynamic era, writers challenged...

Instructor: Prof. Maria Windell In Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad, the system established to help slaves escape literally runs steam engines through subterranean tunnels—a fantastic riff on nineteenth-century reality. The months the protagonist Cora spends hiding in a tiny attic space to small to stand up? They undersell the seven years...

Examines a series of literary texts to consider how writers across the world have used fiction to creatively stage and reimagine gender and sexuality. Attends to the formal and narrative techniques by which these texts call attention to the fictionality--and thereby the creative malleability--of gender itself. Some cinematic and performance...