About Clothes: Styles, Histories, Activisms, Poetics
ENGL 332
Spring 2025 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 333, CHUM 333 |
| Course Cluster and Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate, Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate |
In this course you will learn about some of the looks, discourses, forms of work, sensory meanings, and embodied histories relevant to/circulating around the wearing and study of clothing, in our time-place and at selected points over the past several hundred years. The syllabus includes works of literature, scholarship, visual art, performance, journalism, and activism. Among the questions we will ask: What does it mean to read clothes? How may we understand the transatlantic and global circuits that have informed various fashion systems, including ideas about who may wear what kinds of clothes? How and why have the labor, products, pleasures, and pains of this (multi-billion-dollar) business been understood as trivial? Throughout the semester, you will conduct your own experiments at the intersections of language, identities, and the materiality of clothing. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA CHUM |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
Major Readings:
Will include works by: Rebecca Arnold, Robin Givhan, Tanisha C. Ford, Martine Guttierez, Jamaica Kincaid, Catherine McKinley, Lynda Nead, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Andre Leon Talley, Lou Taylor, Virginia Woolf, and many others.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Essays and multi-disciplinary assignments
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Required attendance at 1-2 campus lectures/readings linked to course
This course contributes to fulfillment of ENGL major requirements:
CW requirement, CW pathway, CW 300-level course, CW upper-level course, CW elective. |
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