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International, Transnational and Globalized Dynamics of the Muslim World

The aim of the course is to strengthen students' knowledge about Islam and Muslims in different parts of the world. Drawing from perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities, […]

Visualising Boccaccio's Decameron Across Arts and Media

This option explores a masterpiece of classical Italian prose, Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron (1349-1353), a collection of 100 tales told by 10 young people (seven women and three men) who flee […]

Decadence, Dazzle, Dissent: Aestheticism and Cultural Politics in the Long Twentieth Century

This course will explore the literary afterlives of the decadent movement of the fin de siècle. It will begin by considering late-nineteenth-century literary decadence, aestheticism, and cosmopolitanism, focusing in particular […]

Literature and Performance in Modern Japan

This course aims to enable students to develop their understanding, appreciation and critical awareness of literature and performance in modern Japan. For students who have previously taken Introduction to Japanese […]

Muslim Societies in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is home to almost a quarter of the global Muslim population. This course will explore the diverse manifestations of Islam among Southeast Asian people who speak a myriad […]

French theatre (1700s-1830s) and the making of revolutions: politics, love and fantasy...

French theatre in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries arose as a major forum for the dissemination of philosophical and political debates that led up to the French Revolution, and […]

Gender and Visual Representations

In this course students will learn to engage critically with past and contemporary modes of visual representations of gender. The course offers a comparative perspective by looking at the processes […]

Screening Sex: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity on the German Screen and Beyond

This option course focuses on the representation of sex, gender, sexuality (as well as other intersections of identity), and the representation or implication of sex acts onscreen.Students will learn to […]

Anouk Lang

Biography

Unwritten Korea: Understanding Korean Society and Culture through Contemporary Arts and Films

The course aims to familiarise students with Korean society and culture through an analysis of films, dramas, and music. The course is structured chronologically, beginning with films and dramas set […]

The Queer Eighteenth Century (PG)

Characteristically modern forms of sexual and gender identity came into being during the long eighteenth century. This course examines the representation of emergent queer identities in a range of genres, […]

The Novel in the Romantic Period: Gender, Gothic, and the Nation (UG)

This course surveys the novel in Britain at a crucial stage in its development, namely the decades after the French Revolution in 1789. In this period the novel’s formal resources […]

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