A study of a selection of African-American women writers, including Hurston, Walker, Morrison and Naylor, with a consideration of gender and race in...
An examination of selected novels, films, autobiographical writings and theoretical texts about AIDS, with an emphasis on the cultural discourses...
A study of selected texts by Americans and/or Canadians of Asian origin with a focus on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, immigration,...
This course focuses on the production and reception of black popular culture (particularly the entertainment industry and professional sports) in ways...
This course examines a range of cinemas from Africa and the African diaspora alongside critical and film theories emanating from these contexts....
An examination of possible critical vocabularies for the analysis of recent British fiction in light of how bestseller lists, prizes, publicity and...
A study of recent English and American fiction, with emphasis on metafiction as well as the relationship between contemporary literary theory and...
This course will examine a broad range of documentary texts - literary, cinematic, photographic, theatrical - to see how the documentary mode is...
This seminar will focus on films about filmmaking and will concentrate on the presentation of actors, the ensemble, writers, producers, and the...
A study of the history of cultural studies from its origins in the Frankfurt School, through the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies,...
Examines the changing definition of
This course examines works by and about people who have moved between cultural locations to consider questions of cultural and cross-cultural...
Through the study of relevant literature and film, with a focus on contemporary Israeli and Arab texts, students gain a context for the exploration of...
This course examines how women's lives are being transformed in a changing global society and the implications of women's changing places in society...
This course examines the influence of Franz Kafka
Students will analyze developments in the field of Black British literature, film, culture, and theory since the 1940s.
An exploration of films as texts by paying close attention to the notion of "looking" and "gazing". Seminar (two hours); one term Prerequisite(s):...
This course explores modernist cultures of colonialism and travel, charting early twentieth-century British conceptions of identity, belonging, space,...
This seminar explores various approaches to Michael Ondaatje
Through a course of readings from a variety of historical and contemporary sources this class will investigate the relations between spirituality,...