Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans

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What can the grotesque, monstrous, and even alien creatures found lurking in an extraordinary range of literature across many centuries reveal about the different ways humans have imagined what it means to be human in the first place? Is the human a unified, single category of being at all? Authors may include Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, and Poe. This course is offered fully online. Students do not need to be on Brown's campus to participate in this course. Students should expect to spend 45 hours per week (or 6-8 hours per day) on coursework.