ENGL 5169

ENGL 5169-001 Native American and Indigenous Film , Penny Kelsey This seminar examines contemporary, emergent Native North American film and visualities in relationship to cultures and identities, knowledge and epistemic production, time and indigenous futurisms. Cultural narratives and tribal knowledges (i.e., “oral traditions”) have played and continue to perform key...

Ralph Ellison may be the preeminent black American author of the twentieth century, though he published only one novel, 1952’s Invisible Man. Over a career that spanned more than half a century, Ellison published two essay collections, wrote dozens of articles, and delivered numerous speeches, but he never published the...

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 to literature, visual arts including film, and music, we will think about these works less as...

This course has two goals—to introduce you to Mexican and Latino cultural forms and theory, mostly literary, from the 18 th to the 21 st century. The second is to explore theories of information and New Realist studies, specifically, Ferraris’ theories of documentality, in order to explore the how Mexicans...