VISIONARY AND SPECULATIVE FICTION: SOCIAL JUSTICE APPROACHES

ENGL/GEN&WS 737

Feminist theory, with an emphasis on literary and cultural theory and criticism in English.

GEN&WS 444

Explores feminist theories from a broad array of disciplines and perspectives. Beginning with early feminist writings, to the significance of the Second Wave, examines consciousness raising, political pamphlets, personal manifestos, and the feminist ideology of the "personal is political." Explores work from Black feminist thought, queer theory, theory from disability studies, fat studies, ecofeminism, and transnational and global feminisms. Identifies and addresses crucial areas of contestation that punctuate the dynamic relationships among texts from past and present-the arrivals, departures, and returns-in feminist theory. Listens to voices that align and voices that dissent. Engages with the work of writers and thinkers from the past and bringing these ideas to our current cultural configurations and conceptualizations of feminism(s) and feminist movement(s).

ENGL 174

An introduction to the multiple ways writers have used literary texts to engage with pressing questions about class, race, gender, equality, immigration, and other issues of social justice. Specific topics will vary.

ILS 369

Examines the concept of magical realism and its cultural implications. Provides a critical framework for evaluating literature, art and movies and engaging in basic research, particularly when it comes to narrative analysis. Pays particular attention to the Latin-American boom, a time of big writers and big literature that presses the limits between fiction and reality, modernity and postmodernity.

ENGL 141

An introduction to the literature of science fiction and fantasy; specific topics will vary.