Encounters with the Undead: Golems, Ghosts, and other Monsters

3 credits · Undergraduate credit

This course explores the undead of modern Jewish cultures across the globe through folklore, drama, film, fiction, and comics. We encounter the magic of animated golems and the horror of the souls of sinners that possess the living. We explore what these monstrous traditions reveal about issues of belonging, gender, race, disability, and hybridity.