ENGL 365 Words in the World II: Cultures, Networks and Traditions

This course investigates literary and cultural traditions and countertraditions with a focus on their local, global, and postcolonial contexts. In a seminar setting foregrounding accountable reading, shared inquiry, and collaborative critical dialogue, students will study how a wide range of writers, artists, and other thinkers have imagined, articulated, critiqued, and in some cases revised such concepts as personhood, citizenship, justice, and community through varied uses of narrative, storytelling, and other modes of representation.