Gender, Sexuality and the Imagination

This seminar is designed to encourage students to think creatively and well about what might be encountered under the categories of “gender,” “sexuality,” and “media.” We will take up “the Imagination” as a concept that has a history and therefore a discernible (even if contradictory) set of politics and as an injunction to create from within existing paradigms. Please note, this course is not a survey of existing scholarship, nor is it an engagement with or production of a canon. It is instead an opening to the possibility that gender, sexuality, and media might be thought otherwise.