Literature, Pop Culture, and New Media

3 credits · Undergraduate

Considers the influence of popular culture and digital technologies on young adult literature and the ways in which societal critique, role of the media, and negotiating identity categories play out in those texts. Examines a wide range of Multigenre, multimodal, and digital fiction focused on various themes such as Real and Imagined Worlds: Gaming and Technology in Texts, Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Monsters: Imagining the Other, and Who am I? Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Identity in Literature. [3]