SPAN 6840

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SPAN 6840
Excess: Gender and Embodiment in Theory and Fiction

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This course provides graduate students with an overview of feminist and queer theories of gender and the body, as well as representations of the gender and the body in narrative fiction. We will critical examine the discursive turn; in feminist theory as well as more recent challenges to this school of thought including new feminist materialism and critical disability studies. We will also look at the ways in which gender is inflection by sexuality, race, caste, and class.


Last 4 Terms Offered 2021FA

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3742 SPAN 6840   SEM 101

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    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Chang, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person