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Queer Renaissance — AH4114.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
A developmental, periodizing, and heteronormatively-inflected approach to idiosyncratic male artist-geniuses such as Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and even Titian has dominated Renaissance art history. Yet given its cross-cultural, colonial origins, and paradoxical investment in both ‘pagan’ antiquity and Christian humanism, ‘pre-modern’ Renaissance visuality is anything but
Visual Arts

Queer Renaissance — AH4114.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
A developmental, periodizing, and heteronormatively inflected approach to idiosyncratic male artist-geniuses such as Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Titian has dominated Renaissance art history. Yet given its cross-cultural, colonial origins, and paradoxical investment in both 'pagan' antiquity and Christian humanism, ‘pre-modern’ Renaissance visuality is anything but
Visual Arts

Queer Renaissance — AH4114.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
A developmental, periodizing, regionalist, and heteronormatively inflected approach to idiosyncratic male artist-geniuses such as Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Titian has dominated Renaissance art history. Yet given its cross-cultural colonial origins and paradoxical investment in both 'pagan' antiquity and Christian humanism, ‘pre-modern’ Renaissance visuality is
Visual Arts

Queer Space: Desire and Sex in Public — FRE2106.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
In this course, we will examine the blurry lines separating public and private space and how they shape and influence queer sexual practices and identities. We will focus on queer sexual cultures that arose in Europe (Paris) and America from the 18th through 20th centuries as innovative models of urban sociability magnified desire and fostered experiments and new
Languages

Queering Creation in the Arts of Latin America — SPA4606.01) (course description updated as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
For this course, we will analyze, in depth, authors such as Pedro Lemebel, Mario Bellatin, Manuel Puig, Ana Mendieta, José Donoso, and Alejandra Pizarnik, who are representative voices of the counter cultural 20th and 21st Century Latin American literary and artistic scenery. We will discuss how different authors from diverse periods and regions develop queer textual and
Cultural Studies and Languages

Queering Creation in the Arts of Latin America — SPA4606.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
For this course, we will analyze, in depth, authors such as Pedro Lemebel, Manuel Puig, Mario Bellatin, Ana Mendieta, José Donoso, and Carmen Ollé, who are representative voices of the counter cultural 20th and 21st Century Latin American literary and artistic scenery. We will discuss how different authors from diverse periods and regions develop queer textual and performative
Cultural Studies and Languages

Queering Creation in the Arts of Latin America — SPA4606.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
For this course, we will analyze, in depth, authors such as César Moro, Pedro Lemebel, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Felipe Cussen, who are representative voices of the counter cultural 20th and 21st Century Latin American literary and artistic scenery. We will discuss how different authors from diverse periods and regions develop queer textual and performative strategies to
Cultural Studies and Languages

Questing the Bizarre: Writing, Rewriting, and Un-Writing in Hispanic Literature — SPA4403.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Julio Cortázar, the Argentine writer, is interested in characters, objects, animals, sounds, experiences, circumstances, and places that help him to configure unusual literary worlds. In this course, we will explore the different ways in which his short stories, in dialogue with the works of a wide array of Latin American and Spanish writers/poets such as Augusto Monterroso,
Cultural Studies and Languages

Quick Studies — DAN4144.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
For each class, students will bring in short movement studies for performance that day. These can be made for solo or group exploration, and as soon as they are done, we will let them go and move on to the next work in the series. Throughout this practice, we will notice timing, spacing, and detail. By attending to the movement qualities, inherent technical challenges, and
Dance

Quick Studies — DAN4144.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
For each class, students will bring in short movement studies for performance that day. These can be made for solo or group exploration, and as soon as they are done, we will let them go and move on to the next work in the series. Throughout this practice, we will notice timing, spacing, and detail. By attending to the movement qualities, inherent technical challenges, and
Dance

Quick Studies — DAN4144.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
For each class, students will bring in short movement studies for performance that day. These can be made for solo or group exploration, and as soon as they are done, we will let them go and move on to the next work in the series. Throughout this practice, we will notice timing, spacing, and detail. By attending to the movement qualities, inherent technical challenges, and
Dance

Quliritaa: S/he tell a legend — VA4318.03

Spring 2023
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Alaska Native oral forms of education, history and legend benefit from a profoundly personal relationship-based approach to one of the most important ways we connect. Verbal communication is breathing, evolving, raw with vulnerability and very much rooted in a present form of communion. Reciprocity and relationships are foundational values of Yup’ik culture, and it makes sense
Visual Arts

Race and Gender in Franco-Maghrebi Literature and Film — FRE4806.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Blase Provitola
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In the context of recent debates on multiculturalism and French national identity, this advanced course provides an introduction to some of the major issues impacting the French-speaking countries of North Africa and their diasporas in France. Through novels and auto-fiction, films, and other visual materials such as bandes dessinées, this course will encourage students to
Languages

Race and Mediation — MS4102.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Media technologies, such as photography, were instrumental in establishing modern conceptions of race. But the reverse is also true—racial ideas deeply shaped our belief that media technologies have the ability to faithfully represent reality. In this advanced course, we will engage an exciting area of scholarship and artistic practice, located at the intersection of media
Society Culture and Thought

Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde — LIT4587.01) (cancelled 5/2/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Franny Choi
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
How does one resist the imperative to tell a neat, digestible story about racial identity? What new stories become possible when poets conduct, in Haryette Mullen’s words, “an open-ended investigation into the possibilities of language?” In this advanced literature seminar, we will read works by BIPOC writers who employ innovative methods to question, disrupt, and reimagine

Race in Publishing — LIT4599.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
That writers of color earn less than their white peers in advances and fees is anecdotally well known. But we lack exhaustive data. Gearing up for such data collection the next few years in a faculty-driven project at Bennington, this course provides an overview of the broader ethical and social landscape around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in publishing. Major
Literature

Race in Publishing — LIT2574.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Mariam Rahmani
Days & Time: FR 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

That writers of color earn less than their white peers in advances and fees is anecdotally well known. But we lack exhaustive data. Gearing up for such data collection the next few years in a faculty-driven project at Bennington, this course provides an overview of the broader ethical and social landscape around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in

Black Studies Literature

Race in Publishing — CS4389.01) (cancelled 8/6/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Mariam Rahmani
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This is a truly interdisciplinary opportunity for students to be part of a real-world project, develop data collection and analysis skills, and learn how to apply them to social problems in the humanities. That racialized and gendered pay gaps plague the arts and publishing, to say nothing of the broader U.S. American labor market, is well known. What is not well documented,

Race, Class, and Apartheid — POL4207.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This class examines the South African system of Apartheid, seeking to understand its origins, practice, and consequences. We will read from a wide range of sources including scholarly and political texts to understand how race and class structured South African society and how the transition to a post-Apartheid society has confronted the past. We will frame this discussion by
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Race, Class, Environment — SCT4102.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: John Hultgren
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
What is the relationship between racism, economic inequality, and environmental degradation? Are these modes of injustice the consequence of a single overarching structure (e.g. capitalism or colonialism) against which resistance should be aimed? Are they formed by overlapping, but relatively autonomous, structures that nonetheless form a Gordian knot of oppression? Or are they
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Race, Robots, and Asian American Literature — LIT2603.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Franny Choi
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
From Blade Runner to Ex Machina, visions of robotic futures are populated with Asian bodies, settings, and cultural forms. How is it that robots became so closely linked to the racialization of Asian/American people? What might we learn about the latter by examining how the former shows up in our cultural imagination? And how have Asian diasporic writers handled these
Literature Society Culture and Thought

Race, Robots, and Asian/American Literature — LIT2603.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
From Blade Runner to Ex Machina, visions of robotic futures are populated with Asian bodies, settings, and cultural forms. How is it that robots became so closely linked to the racialization of Asian/American people? What might we learn about the latter by examining how the former shows up in our cultural imagination? And how have Asian diasporic writers handled these
Literature

Racine — LIT4157.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Dan Hofstadter
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
During the seventeenth century France rose to unparalleled heights of literary creativity. We explore the historical context of this development, devoting some attention to classical models, particularly Euripedes' play Andromache. Jean Racine, who was at times in conflict with the royal court, offered his tragedies Andromaque, Phedre, Berenice, Iphigenie, and others, which we
Literature