History of Illness in Visual Culture

3 credits

What does it mean to represent the diseased body? What are the relations between health, illness, other-ness, and deviance in representation? Through a series of multidisciplinary investigations of the body in crisis this course will explore how gender and illness have been represented from the sixteenth century to the present. ***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200-level WGST course.***