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Medieval Bodies: Integrity, Rupture and Metamorphosis (Ordinary)

This course focuses on the body in the Middle Ages as a site where different discourses were played out, a symbolic space that could be figured as either whole and […]

Media and Visual Culture in Modern China

This course examines print media and visual culture in modern China (1880-1949), as well as the ways in which they interacted with political, social and cultural transformations. Late Qing and […]

Literature and Modernity II: Late Modernism and Beyond

This is the semester 2 core course for MSc Literature and Modernity and is only available for students on that programme. This course examines topics in contemporary literary and critical […]

Literature and Modernity I: Modernist Aesthetics

Modernist Aesthetics is the semester 1 core course for the MSc Literature and Modernity and is restricted to students on that programme. The course explores key texts and topics in […]

Latin American Film: History, Identity and Social Justice (Ordinary)

This course will offer an introduction to a range of Latin American films from different periods and styles, focusing on how filmmakers have recorded and contested societal and political upheaval. […]

Global Modernisms: Inter/National Responses to Modernity

This course focuses on the relationship between modernity and modernism: the social and cultural phenomena that constitute twentieth-century life across a range of global contexts, and the aesthetic response to […]

Global LGBT Fiction

This course will introduce students to the increasingly global genre of contemporary LGBT literature. A central focus of the course will be how LGBT subjectivities, needs, and desires differ across […]

Gender and Translation

The course focuses on the convergence of gender-related issues and translation studies.

Gender and Media in the Arab World

This course provides a gender-centric analysis of various media (including print, broadcast, and online media) in the Arab world. Focusing on women in particular, the course will visit several central […]

From Girls in Uniform to Men in Drag: Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity on the German Screen (Ordinary)

This option will explore how gender, sexuality and ethnicity, central and often contested categories throughout German history, have been represented in German film from the Weimar period to the present […]

French 1B

The course examines a number of key issues relating to the Literature, Film and Politics of France since 1940. Based upon an integrated approach, the course examines the interaction among […]

Film and Gender

Film and Gender examines the ways in which gender is constructed and performed across a range of moving image forms and genres. The course will introduce students to a wide […]

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