| Course Title: Topics in Literary and Cultural Theory: 'Queer and Disability Mindbodies, Affects, and Times' |
| Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2025 |
| Description: This course will read queer and disability theory both as separate histories and as interlaced projects that resist normative life chronologies, genders, sexualities, productivities, and bodily shapes. Particular attention will be given to questions of embodiment, race, political activism, and relationality. This last category -- how we relate to ourselves and to others -- will be explored through queer and disability theory's understanding of neurodivergent mindbodies and their nonconforming sorts of feelings and times. How might we think about, for example, "feeling backwards" or "flexible time" as both scholarly ideas and experiences that might help us change our lives and the structures we live within? We will also discuss how theory might be written, and might ask us to read, in queer and neurodivergent ways. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , SI - Speaking-Intensive , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Kate Singer | ksinger@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025 | Seminar | Tuesday and Thursday | 01:45PM - 03:00PM | SHTK - Shattuck Hall | 203 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| ENGL0003 | ENGL-TM: Theory and Methods | This course has been approved to count towards the English major's Theory and Methods |
| ENGL0002 | ENGL-RP: Race, Power, and Difference | This course has been approved to count towards the English major's Race, Power, and Difference Disciplinary Perspectives requirement. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 17 | Available: 1 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |