Want to learn more about gender and sexuality? Follow the “Gender and Sexuality in Literature” path.
If you want to follow this path, look for these courses next semester:
ENLS 101.01 Ways of Reading: Black Women’s Sight and Sound TR 1-2:20pm Emerald Rutledge
ENLS 101.02 Ways of Reading: Black Women’s Sight and Sound TR 2:30-3:50pm Emerald Rutledge
Black women writers have a long and robust literary tradition featuring sharp, critical analyses of our societal conditions, complex representations of Black womanhood and gender expression broadly, and compelling experiments in mixed-medium creative production. From Angelina Weld Grimke, Ann Petry, Dorothy West, and Toni Morrison, to Nella Larsen, Adrienne Kennedy, Ntozake Shange, and Alexis De Veaux, Black women writers insist on giving life and voice to their own narratives!
Black Women’s Sight and Sound will consider the African American literary tradition from the perspective of Black women and gender expansive writers and cultural workers. Pairing literary texts with music and film, we will explore the range and depth of their thematic contributions and socio-political criticism across the 20th and early 21st centuries. AHLG ARHC FRST W2
ENLS 251.01 Sex & the Early Modern City MW 3-4:20pm Emily Loney
Artisans, con men, merchants, and women with money and sexual agency: early modern English city comedy explores the dynamics of a society that was rapidly urbanizing and untangles the hopes and anxieties of city life. In the space of the early modern city, you can’t fully trust that people are who they say they are, and perhaps you’ll lose everything to a con man, but perhaps you’ll also make your fortune, ascend to a higher social class, and marry the love of your life. In this course, we will read a variety of texts written in 16th– and 17th-century England that allow us to consider how the early modern city was imagined by its inhabitants, and how early modern literature of the city offered new avenues for writers to navigate topics related to gender, sex, and love. ARHC
ENLS 266 01 Women Writing/Writing Women WF 1:30 PM – 2:50 PM Erica Delsandro
Simone de Beauvoir based her 1949 philosophical treatise, The Second Sex, around one question: “What is a woman?” Now, seventy-five years later, we know that there is no singular answer to her question. Women have been defining–and continue to redefine–their gender category. In Women Writing / Writing Women we will investigate a selection of texts by diverse authors all who engage with the question “what is a woman?” through intersectional frameworks, a capacious understanding of gender, an engagement with history, and an attention to (literary) authority. ARHC, W2
Other courses recently offered or expected to be offered in this path include:
- Intro to LGBTQ+ Literature and Media (ENLS 128)
- Fiction and Reproductive Justice (ENLS 213)
- Gender and Sexuality in American (ENLS 228)
- Reading Race, Gender and Sexuality (ENLS 239)
- Masculinity in Modern US Drama (ENLS 247)
- Shakespeare’s Sisters (ENLS 250)
- Love, Sex and Friendship in Early Modern Literature (ENLS 251)
- Sex, Sexuality and Rape Culture in 18th Century Literature (ENLS 260)
- Nineteenth Century Women Writers (ENLS 271)
- Women Writers of Color (ENLS 288)
- James Baldwin (ENLS 302)
- Queer Filipino/x American Lit (ENLS 311)
- Race and Gender in the 18th Century (ENLS 320)
- (Dis)contented Domesticity: Nineteenth Century British Women Writers (ENLS 270)
- History of Sexuality in Literature (ENLS 394)