Fall 2026 Undergraduate English Courses

01   CAC   TTH5   12158   CHOI   MU-114  This course examines literature about migration, immigration, and diaspora from the early twentieth century to the present, alongside theoretical and historical works that contextualize these phenomena. It explores how literature produced through cross-border movement—whether voluntary or forced, directly experienced or inherited through memory—gives rise to new formations of community, language, and belonging. Drawing on key concepts from postcolonial and...

01   CAC   TTH4   12160   CHOI   MU-210 How have writers of Asian descent made sense of the vast political transformations—colonialism, nationalism, neoliberal globalization—that have shaped Asia across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? This course brings together authors of diverse racial, gendered, and national backgrounds to examine how literature grapples with these transformations across different cultural and political contexts. While this topic could be approached in many ways, this course...

01   TF3  CAC   12168    MANGHARAM     HC-S120 How does the study of postcolonial literatures help us understand the impact of colonialism on our planetary climate? After all, the extractive and finance capitalism that continues to devastate our planet was forcibly spread all over the world through colonialism, carrying with it hierarchical ideas about the way humans relate to the world, their environments, and to each other. If our planetary climate crisis has its roots in colonialism, how can...