In this first-year seminar, we will explore science fiction as a history of the future. What we call “science fiction”—fiction…
William Blake, the visionary poet, artist and printmaker of the British Romantic period, has had enormous influence on modern art…
In this seminar we will embark on a world tour of modernist cities across the Global North and the Global…
There is the assumption that science fiction propagandizes for the gleaming gadgetry that it depicts. It’s true that science fiction…
Fulfills a major core requirement. Launch focusing on later British literature covering the Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods–great foundation for…
Plenty of us feel like we’re living in the end times – but why do some of us feel like…
When medical anthropologist Arthur Kleinman writes that “illness has meaning,” he reminds us that the human experience of being sick…
Pride and Prejudice, often cited as the best-loved novel in English, is the focus of this semester’s course in Austen…
Scan any bookstore shelf and you’d think the human psyche is hanging on by a thread. From fighting anxiety to…
In this course students will explore the relationship between American novels and free speech. Paying particular attention to the ideas…