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AP/EN 4430 3.0 Global Gothic: Horror Literature from Around the World

An examination of global gothic literature, this course explores the literature of horror and terror in a variety of texts from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Americas, and Europe. Texts are read and situated in their regional, national, and/or diasporic contexts and in relation to questions of colonial history, post/anticolonialism, race, and globalization. This […]

AP/EN 4182 3.0 Contemporary Literature: Writers and Drugs

Explores the connections between drugs and writing, including the intersections between religious, scientific and cultural thought and practice that go into constructing descriptions of drug experiences in our time. All human cultures have involved relationships with psychoactive plant substances (henceforth referred to as 'drugs'). In this course, we will explore the connection between drugs and […]

AP/EN 3425 3.0 Middle Eastern Literature

This course offers a study of Middle Eastern Literature in English with attention to critical theory and relevant cultural contexts. Readings include the framed tales of One Thousand and One Nights written along the silk road, to the mystic poems of Rumi, and contemporary multimodal texts such as Persepolis.

AP/EN 4402 3.0 Late 20th-Century Black Poetics

This course introduces students to Black poets living and writing in Canada and the United States in the late 20th century. It focuses on developing close reading skills to better understand what poetry is and how we experience the poetic, as well as critical debates within American studies around race, gender, class, and sexuality. This […]

AP/EN 4365 3.0 California in Literature

This survey of California writing considers the state's polarizing hold on the imagination of various communities and constituents, considering an array of genres, styles, and thematic concerns.'The very name of California is splendor' enthused poet Vachel Lindsey in 1915, though by 1990 geographer Mike Davis had dubbed the state 'the junkyard of dreams.' From the […]

AP/EN 4390 3.0 Contemporary American Gothic

This course considers the ubiquity of the ghostly, the resonances of a haunted past, in recent American literature. It examines psychoanalytic, deconstructive, and social theories of gothic and considers persistence of traditional gothic motifs.

AP/EN 3255 3.0 Indigenous Drama in Canada

This course offers a literary and theatrical study of Indigenous drama in Canada with some attention to critical theory and relevant historical and cultural contexts. It examines the historical and theatrical conditions that led to the emergence and growth of Indigenous drama in Canada, analyzing key texts in terms of their formal, thematic, and theatrical […]

AP/EN 4050 3.0 The Arts of Memory

Thematically organized around studies in memory, this course traverses literature, philosophy, psychology and the visual arts, from Plato to the digital age, in an effort to understand the interrelatedness of all the arts with respect to one of the most complicated domains of human thought and practice.Course credit exclusions: AP/COMN 4780 6.00, AP/EN 4050 6.00. […]

AP/EN 3310 6.0 American Poetry

A critical examination of the major achievements of American poets writing in the 20th century against the background of earlier poets who may be said to have established the foundations of an American poetic tradition.Course credit exclusion: AP/EN 3310 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 3320 6.00.