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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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

From Blade Runner to Ex Machina,

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

While discovery, analysis, criticism, and creativity are essential pillars of the mission of an academic institution, the potential to transform that knowledge into public action is limited by the ability to powerfully and effectively communicate truth to the world.  With that in mind, this class will be an intense seven-week workshop geared towards creating information

A performance-based course for folks interested in this medium who have completed Part One or have comparable experience. It is not necessary to have elaborate skill in sound design and editing, though students with this interest are welcome to enroll. All students will perform as actors in each other’s projects. Each week the class will listen to examples of current Radio Play

A performance-based collaborative course designed for actors, writers/playwrights, sound designers, directors and folks interested in developing skills in this medium. In this performance-based course we will investigate plays as well as create plays that are designed to be performed via radio or podcast. Content will include original plays and monologues written by recent