Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Course Areas |
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3 | Fall 2017 | Serpell, C. Namwali
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TTh 3:30-5 | 130 Wheeler | American Cultures American Literature African American Literature Special Topics |
Butler, Octavia: Dawn; Delaney, Samuel: Babel-17; Duffy, Damian: Kindred: A Graphic Novel; Johnson, Mat: Pym; LaValle, Victor: Destroyer; Laymon, Kiese: Long Division; Lovecraft, H.P.: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym; Schuyler, George: Black No More
Screenings of a Star Trek episode (1966), Sun Ra, Space is the Place (1974), John Sayles, The Brother from Another Planet (1984). Stories by Octavia Butler, Ray Bradbury, W.E.B. DuBois, Samuel Delaney, Derrick Bell.
This course addresses two genres—black fiction and science fiction—at their point of intersection, which is sometimes called Afrofuturism. The umbrella term “black fiction” will include texts that issue out of and speculate about the African-American experience. The category “science fiction” will comprise texts that speculate about alternative, cosmic, dystopian, and future worlds. Overlapping—and mutually transforming—concepts will include: genetics, race, diaspora, miscegenation, double consciousness, technology, ecology, biology, language, history, futurity, space (inner and outer), and, of course, the alien. We will consider stories, novels, graphic novels, comics, films, music, and television clips.
Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
166/2 | Special Topics: Alfred Hitchcock |
Bader, Julia
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Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
166/1 | Special Topics: Comedy & Violence |
Flynn, Catherine
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166/2 | Special Topics: Romantic Science |
Goldstein, Amanda Jo
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166/3 | Special Topics: Classical & Renaissance Drama |
Knapp, Jeffrey
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166/4 | Special Topics: Marxism & Literature |
Lye, Colleen
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166/5 | Special Topics: Emily Dickinson |
Shoptaw, John
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166/6 | Special Topics: Speculative Fiction |
Jones, Donna V.
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Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
166/1 | Special Topics: Speculative Fictions, Possible Futures |
O'Brien, Geoffrey G.
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166/2 | Special Topics: Games of Thrones, Medieval to Modern |
Strub, Spencer
Liu, Aileen |
Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
166/4 | Special Topics: Writing Poetry and Nonfiction, Writing as Social Practice |
Giscombe, Cecil S.
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Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
166/1 | Special Topics: Marxism and Literature |
Lye, Colleen
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166/2 | Special Topics: Studies in Literature and Environment (Shelter and Weather) |
Francois, Anne-Lise
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166/3 | Special Topics: Slavery and Conspiracy |
Wagner, Bryan
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166/4 | Special Topics: Literature in the Century of Film |
Goble, Mark
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166/5 | Special Topics: Modern Irish Literature |
Falci, Eric
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Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
166/1 | Special Topics: Aesthetics and the Environment in the Eighteenth Century |
Picciotto, Joanna M
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166/2 | Special Topics: Vladimir Nabokov | Naiman, Eric |
Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
166/2 | Special Topics: Elizabethan Renaissance: Art, Culture, and Visuality | Honig, Elizabeth |