Raheem Senegal
Person
Research Interests: Black Atlantic, Creole literatures of the Caribbean, Créolité, Phenomenology, Post-positivist epistemologies, use of oral histories in the construction of identity.
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FRENCH 123 - Colonizing the Early Modern Body
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How do early modern texts, images, and maps contribute to — or resist — colonization and extractivism? How are notions of ’nature’ and the ‘wild’ or ’savage’ mobilised in justifying the exploitation of land and indigenous peoples, and what symbolic and...
FRENCH 160 - The Laboratory Island
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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...
FRENCH 074 - Moving Images: Global Narratives in Cinema and Graphic Novels
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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...
FRENCH 80BB - Beyond the Binary: Sex, Gender, and Nature in Premodern French Writing
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How do early modern French texts produce, reinforce, or destabilise binaries? This course explores how, in the period around the ‘fixing’ of the French language by the Académie française into the regulated forms we are familiar with today, grammatical and...
FRENCH 227 - (Dark) Ecologies in French Literature, Thought, and Film
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What is the place of the human within nature? How are cultural concepts of what is ‘natural’ or ‘artificial’ reflected in and shaped by texts from different periods? Where do our ideas about ecology and climate today have their roots? How can a text, or a...
FRENCH 072 - Forms of Desire: Pre-Modern French Voices
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What voices can we hear in pre-modern literature? How did literary forms (the novel, tragic drama, lyric poetry) emerge or evolve over the course of several centuries? In this class, we will examine a wide range of texts from the 12th to the 18th...
FRENCH 088 - Comic Relief: The Power of Humor in Social Fiction
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Comic Relief focuses on fictional works in French which use humor to dorer la pilule , or make more palatable, the social ills and political dangers they reveal. With naïfs and rebellious women as protagonists, these coming-of-age stories raise questions...
Kelly Kamrath
Person
Research interests: early 20th century, popular romance, affect theory, feminism, gender and sexuality, politics of the personal, folklore, mythology, creative writing
Ege Olgac
Person
Research Interests: 19th–21st century French and Francophone literature, environmental humanities, phytopoetics, vegetal identity and individuality, vegetal kinship, zoopoetics, colonial and decolonial ecologies, eco-critical theory