The Boundaries of the Human

Named in description (status as stated): We will read poetry, novels and stories from the Medieval to the Modern era by writers of myth, fantasy and speculative fiction, including Marie de France, Jonathan Swift, H. G. Wells, Angela Carter, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

Named in description (status as stated): Texts will include Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Alex Garland’s film Ex-Machina (2014), Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild and Other Stories, “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti, Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties, and poems by Solmaz Sharif, Mahmoud Darwish, Elizabeth Bishop, and others.