Fall 2025 Undergraduate English Courses

01       MW6   CAC   10554    IBIRONKE     MU-211  

01   MW65  CAC    10563    ROBOLIN   HH-B6 This upper-level course will examine 21st-century African literature across a wide generic, stylistic, linguistic, and geographic range. The works published in the last fifteen years include novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and memoirs in conventional and experimental forms. While we will predominantly study texts written in English, several will be translated. This very contemporary African literature covers a panoply of subjects and approaches, but we will...

01   TTH5   CAC   10564   ISAAC   MU-211  Violence and Asian American LiteratureViolence has the ability to destroy but also to recreate identities and subjects, both to tear away from and to stake claims to nations and places. How and why is violence a recurring theme in Asian American literature? From the Philippine-American War (1898) and the Pacific wars against Japan (1941), Korea (1950s) to the Vietnam War (1960s) and the War on Terror (2001) in the past century, conflicts in Asia have affected...

01   MW5   CAC   10569   CHOI    HC-S126 Race and Empire in the Transpacific This course explores the histories of empire that bind the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific Islands, focusing on how writers and artists have engaged with (neo)imperial violences. Through literary and cultural analysis, we will examine the workings of settler colonialism, labor exploitation, militarization, and racial capitalism as they have shaped categories of race, citizenship, and belonging in transpacific contexts. While...

01   CAC   TTH6   10562   SOTO   MU-211 In this course, we will read literature across the Americas and contemporary theory that addresses the complexity of migration and diaspora. These two terms connote experiences of movement and displacement motivated by an array of historical as well as social forces: political turmoil; social instability; familial ties; the promise of a better future elsewhere, to name a few. We will explore the literary representation of migration and diaspora with a focus on the...