An exploration of ways gender informs the theory,
history, and creation of literature and art. The
role gender norms and constructs play in
establishing, reproducing, or contesting aesthetic
values, traditions, and hierarchies; feminist
perspectives on subjects such as the gaze, the
self-portrait, autobiography, and costume; gender
and its relationship to theories of beauty, taste,
and the body. Materials may be drawn from
literature, art, film, cultural studies, art
history, theatre, dance, and queer studies.
Emphasis on an interdisciplinary topic to be
chosen by the professor. Recent topics have
included 20th-century experimentation in novels,
films, and photography; the Victorian crisis in
gender roles from the sensation heroine and
Pre-Raphaelitism to the dandy; gender and self as
artistic and theoretical constructs from the
Enlightenment to the present.
history, and creation of literature and art. The
role gender norms and constructs play in
establishing, reproducing, or contesting aesthetic
values, traditions, and hierarchies; feminist
perspectives on subjects such as the gaze, the
self-portrait, autobiography, and costume; gender
and its relationship to theories of beauty, taste,
and the body. Materials may be drawn from
literature, art, film, cultural studies, art
history, theatre, dance, and queer studies.
Emphasis on an interdisciplinary topic to be
chosen by the professor. Recent topics have
included 20th-century experimentation in novels,
films, and photography; the Victorian crisis in
gender roles from the sensation heroine and
Pre-Raphaelitism to the dandy; gender and self as
artistic and theoretical constructs from the
Enlightenment to the present.
- Teacher: Andrea Hibbard