Fall 2024 First-Year Writing (Barnard) BC1106 section 001

Seeing, Surveilling, and Performing

SEEING/SURVEILLING/PERFOR

Call Number 00197
Day & Time
Location
MW 11:40am-12:55pm
227 Milbank Hall (Barnard)
Points 3
Grading Mode Pass/Fail
Approvals Required None
Instructor Vrinda Condillac
Type LECTURE
Course Description

In this course, we will study the way culture influences how we make sense of what we see. We will examine how power is exercised by making people feel as though they are always being seen, how this surveillance polices the way gender, race, class, and sexuality are expressed, and how people perform their identities to reinforce or push back against this policing. Literary texts will include Passing by Nella Larsen, "The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado, Fantomina by Eliza Haywood, and the films Paris is Burning and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Secondary texts will include John Berger, Talia Bettcher, Judith Butler, W.E.B Dubois, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Jack Halberstam, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and Laura Mulvey.

Web Site Vergil
Department First-Year Writing @Barnard
Enrollment 15 students (15 max) as of 12:06PM Friday, December 6, 2024
Subject First-Year Writing (Barnard)
Number BC1106
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Open To Barnard College
Section key 20243FYWB1106X001