Literary and Cultural Studies

Catalog description

This course will introduce students to the history and range of methods used and genres produced within the disciplines of literary and cultural studies. Students will study the history and development of journalistic and academic genres of literary criticism; the expansion of interdisciplinary applications of theory to analysis of literary and cultural texts; new forms of "distant" reading, through data mining and related collaboration with the computer sciences; intersections of literary and cultural analysis with the cognitive neurosciences and other scientific fields; and the persistence of formal analysis in subfields of criticism and creative writing. Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.