Recent Courses
ENGL 4601H Critical Approaches to Literature: Crip Theory
Hybrid course at Trent University, Winter 2022 ENGL 4601H Critical Approaches to Literature: Crip Theory Literary scholars have reclaimed the term “crip” to explore overlaps between queer and disability cultures in neoliberal contexts. This course explores disability approaches to literature in a contemporary context, though students can think historically using the methods learned. We will […]
GESO 2002H Health Humanities
Online course at Trent University, Fall 2021 GESO 2002H Health Humanities As COVID-19 crept across continents, frontline health professionals used Facebook to share tips on opening airways in the absence of ventilators, put together TikTok dance videos, performed choral arrangements via zoom, and tweeted their agony over seemingly impossible situational ethics. Members of the public […]
ENGL-GESO 3609H SickLit
Online course at Trent University, Fall 2021 ENGL-GESO 3609H SickLit This course is about the intersection of illness with literature. We explore how literature reimagines personal experiences of sickness beyond the medical, and we draw on what we learn to reflect upon the role of medical power in daily life. We read literature that imagines disease, […]