Lit the Archive

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

How does the archive inspire and ground literary texts? How can literature fill out gaps in the archive? In this course, we will interrogate the complementary nature of literature and the historical archive. We will pay particular attention to the imperatives, as well as the challenges, of engaging the archive in literature, especially pertaining to silences around the experiences of Black, LGBTQIA, women-identified, and other marginalized and oppressed populations. Students will engage in both archival research and literary analysis.