My Teaching
Useful Things:
Links to articles relevant to specific units can be found under the appropriate unit tabs, above.
Term 1
Unit 1: Nation, Culture, Place
Week 2 –The Lonely Londoners (Selvon 1956)
Week 3 – Frederic Jameson (Lodge 542)
Week 4 – Raymond Williams (Lodge 337)
Week 5 – Frantz Fanon (Lodge 127)
Week 6 – Reading Week, no seminars
Unit 2: Ecocriticism
Week 8 – The Poetry of the Wilderness
Week 9 – Energy and Humanities and Petroculture
Week 10 – Representing the Anthropocene
Term 2
Unit 3: Identities
Week 1 - The Buddah of Suburbia (Kureishi 1990)
Week 2 - Edward Said and Stuart Hall
Week 3 - Judith Butler and Slavoj Žižek
Week 4 - Gayatri Spivak
Week 5 - "Writing Critically"
Week 6 – Reading Week, no seminars
Unit 4: 'One question is who is responsible? Another is can you read?'
Week 7 – A Mercy (Morrison, 2008)
Week 8 – Edward Said
Week 9 – Judith Butler
Week 10 – Jacques Derrida