ENG 156D - Introduction to LGBTQ+ Literature

Course Cross-listed with GS 156D
3 credit(s) High Impact Practice: Diversity and Global Learning
This course introduces students to major themes in LBGTQ+ literature. Our course will be organized around some of the experiences common to Otherness based on sexual orientation and gender identity, such as coming out, queer phobia and queer pride, and building a queer family. For each topic, we will read a range of texts-poetry, short fiction, and personal essay-to explore how writers have represented LGBTQ+ experience on the page. Although we will read some fundamental older texts, our inquiry will try to keep one foot always in the present moment, in which LGBTQ+ identity is a dynamic site of discovery, hope, and active conflict. How do writers define themselves, find community, and interrogate the larger culture? What methods or techniques do they use to redefine and better represent themselves and forge communities?

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