ENGL 581

Spring 2022 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 18-May 4

Seminar Literary Theory

Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: A college course devoted entirely to criticism or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 581 class schedule data for spring 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32282	Lecture-Discussion	SH	3:00PM -4:50PM	W	Location Pending	Hilger, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Section Title: Seminar in Literary Relations Section Info: SP22 - MEETS WITH CWL 571 - Medical Humanities, and its extension, the Health Humanities, are a growing field of research and teaching with implications far beyond the humanities. This seminar will begin with an overview of the history of and the major debates in the discipline. We will then familiarize ourselves with specific subsets and related fields such as narrative medicine, graphic medicine, public health humanities, translational health humanities, and veterinary humanities. We will also investigate Medical/Health Humanities’ intersections with the study of race, gender, and disability. In addition to narratives by patients and physicians, we will read Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor, MK Czerwiec’s Graphic Medicine Manifesto, Viet Than Nguyen’s The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, Tobin Siebers’ Disability Theory, Anne Fausto Sterling’s Sexing the Body, and Barbara Natterson-Horowitz’ Zoobiquity, among others. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.