Courses
Horror is “hot” right now. Prestige television programming such as The Walking Dead and True Detective, the popularity of writers such as Jeff VanderMeer and Thomas Ligotti, and academic interest in weird and new weird fiction attest to this fact.
Explores literature in the Gothic mode and aesthetic and critical theories related to modern "horror" genres or their precursors. Introduces literary-critical concepts (such as notions of abjection, repression and anxiety) that developed alongside
Provides training and practice in writing and critical thinking. Focuses on the writing process, the fundamentals of composition, and the structure of argument. Provides numerous and varied assignments with opportunity for revision. Requisites:
“From the modernism you chose you get the postmodernism you deserve.” David Antin “If it is art, it is not popular. And if it is popular, it is not art.” Arnold Schoenberg. Texts: In Search of Lost Time—Marcel Proust,
Lot of writing, good amount of reading, workshopping every week, always with an eye toward publication.
This course is designed to give students time and impetus to generate poetry and discussion of it in an atmosphere at once supportive and critically serious. Enrollment requires admission to the Creative Writing Graduate Program or the instructor's
Ready to travel the Spaceways? Our propulsion system will be Afrofuturism, the contemporary cultural movement driven by “African American voices” with “other stories to tell about culture, technology and things to come.” We’ll begin with
This course studies special topics that focus on a theme, genre, or theoretical issue not limited to a specific period or national tradition. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
This graduate seminar will investigate the production, circulation, and translation of 20th- and 21st- century Afro-diasporic cultures that track the Middle Passage and traverse Africa, Europe and the Americas. Taking a cultural materialist approach
This course has two goals—to introduce you to Mexican and Latino cultural forms and theory, mostly literary, from the 18th to the 21stcentury. The second is to explore theories of information and New Realist studies, specifically,