Fall 2024 First-Year Writing (Barnard) BC1500 section 001

(Workshop) Reading the Body

(WORKSHOP) READING THE BO

Call Number 00211
Day & Time
Location
TRF 10:10am-11:25am
613 MILSTEIN CEN
Points 4
Grading Mode Pass/Fail
Approvals Required None
Instructor Cecelia B Lie-Spahn
Type SEMINAR
Course Description

In this course, we’ll think of the body as a text we can read—one that both represents and creates intersections between the body, science, and identity. We’ll read literary texts that reveal how scientific authority gets mapped onto the body and embedded in ideas of race, gender, class, sexuality, family, and nation; we’ll also analyze how writers in turn investigate and play with these scientific scripts. How do literary depictions of the body both represent and resist scientific authority? What do they teach us about the "factness" and fluidity of identity and belonging? Readings are subject to change, but will likely include literature by Ovid, Octavia Butler, Amy Bonnaffons, Isabel Allende, and Nella Larsen, as well as select texts from feminist science studies, critical race studies, and queer theory.

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Department First-Year Writing @Barnard
Enrollment 11 students (12 max) as of 11:06AM Friday, December 6, 2024
Subject First-Year Writing (Barnard)
Number BC1500
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Open To Barnard College
Section key 20243FYWB1500X001