Usha Rungoo

Islands, because of their size, boundedness by the sea and supposed isolation, have served and continue to serve as laboratories for experiments including military, nuclear, touristic, scientific and ecological ones, as well as for forms of forced labor...

We will consider issues related to race, gender, class and ecology as well as aesthetics at the intersection of the written and visual by reading contemporary graphic novels, children’s books and films as both works of art and documentation. This course...

In this course, we will explore the imbrication of colonialism and environmentalism by focusing on “green” spaces such as plantations; botanical gardens where plants were studied to be mass produced for empire’s profit; and green spaces such as safaris...

Reading novels, plays, tales and stories from the Creole world (Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Louisiana), we will explore the inhuman in all its manifestations: the preternatural such as spirits, ghosts and zombies, and the aberrant such as human-animal...