SHUM 4994

Archiving Sensation

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

This course will address the 2014-15 Society for Humanities theme of "sensation" through questions of method, focusing in particular on the interdisciplinary challenges of documenting and archiving sensation. Areas of focus will include: theory and practice of the archive from both queer studies and postcolonial studies; intersections of queer theory and affect theory that explore non-normative experiences of sensation, attachment, and intimacy; questions of genre and media, with particular emphasis on the limits and possibilities of "writing" sensation as opposed to representing it in other media, especially experimental and new media practices such as performance and art installation that are more explicitly embodied and/or material.

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

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