Spring 2025 First-Year Writing (Barnard) BC1707 section 001

Writing the Queer/Trans Self

Writing the Queer/Trans S

Call Number 00745
Day & Time
Location
MW 1:10pm-2:25pm
To be announced
Points 4
Grading Mode Pass/Fail
Approvals Required None
Instructor Samuel Davis
Type LECTURE
Course Description

How do queer and trans authors negotiate the written self amidst a culture which seeks to erase trans and non-binary realities, selves, and identities? In this class we will explore a handful of contemporary American literary texts written by queer and trans authors to explore how language is used, challenged, rejected, and reclaimed to constitute new literary selves and possibilities. For example, we will explore the reclamation of they/them pronouns, and the ways in which non-binary selves write themselves into binary colonial languages. The class will engage fundamental scholarship on race, gender, disability, and culture within the field of Trans studies.

Web Site Vergil
Department First-Year Writing @Barnard
Enrollment 11 students (15 max) as of 11:06AM Thursday, December 5, 2024
Subject First-Year Writing (Barnard)
Number BC1707
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Section key 20251FYWB1707X001