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This is a class not only on the craft of writing poetry but also on the craft of thinking visually and understanding film form. On a craft level, we will explore film and examine ways in which artistic problems can be solved on a cinematic, visual level, and, ultimately, how they may be translated into the forms and the craft of poetry. At the same time, we will examine ways in which the disciplines of poetry and film can inform each other. We will explore the structure of film and see how that has changed our visual IQs over time as spectators. Beyond that, we will look at film from the Black diaspora and models of African and African American poetry that will serve as craft models of form. This is a Creative Writing course, crosslisted with an African & African American Studies course.

This course will explore how queer literature has been used by authors and critics to think through questions of time and temporality: is there continuity between historical queer lives and contemporary ones? How do we relate to queer predecessors, and how do we imagine queer futures, and why are these questions so important to queer literature? Readings will include poems, plays and novels, alongside a selection of critical and theoretical essays and articles.

In this class, students learn to read prose and poetry written in the earliest recorded form of English, which we call Old English (~450-1100) in its original language. Genres on the syllabus include riddles, history, magical spells, chronicles, and travel stories. To prepare for class, students will make translations. We'll check these as a group as we discuss the text's literary qualities and cultural/historical contexts - and how these are intertwined with the details of the Old English language.

In this class, students will read the entirety of the Old English poem Beowulf in its original language. In class we will work through our translations and discuss, among other things, the poem's poetic style and accomplishment, its fusion of Christian and Germanic pagan elements, its place in the broader tradition of early medieval Germanic literature, and the manuscript it appears in.

Required for American Studies majors. In this seminar we trace diverse and changing interpretations of American identity by exploring autobiographical, literary, and/or visual texts from the 18th through the 20th century in conversation with sociological, political, and historical accounts. *Fulfills Writing In the Major Requirement for American Studies Majors*

This course introduces work by twentieth century and contemporary LGBTQIA poets alongside foundational texts in queer theory and gender and sexuality studies. Reading poems within the theoretical frameworks of scholars like Munoz and Lauren Berlant, we will collectively explore how poetry is a genre uniquely suited to exploring issues of desire, utopianism, futurity, and liberation. Each week, students will have the opportunity to respond to assigned texts either creatively, through a poem, or critically, through a brief analytic piece of writing. In the latter half of the quarter, we will workshop our poems together. No previous coursework in poetry is necessary, though an openness toward experimenting in the form is essential.

What insights can a novel or a poem offer about climate change? What can the long histories of colonialism teach us about current carbon-neutral industries? In this undergraduate seminar, you will learn why we cannot focus on their material dimension alone when we study environmental crises. Environments are also made in and through symbolic representation and social practices. The course introduces the Environmental Humanities, a growing interdisciplinary field that challenges conventions of key terms such as nature, culture, matter, representation, consumption, environment, agency, future, and resilience. We explore these fundamental concepts to support students as participants in the momentous discussion about profound environmental transformations of planetary life.

Playgoers in Renaissance England loved their revenge. Bloody and violent, the revenge tragedies of the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage relished in gore. Revenge is the purview of the powerless, driven to take desperate action against those who believe themselves above the law. We read the classical revenge tragedies of Aeschylus, Euripides, and Seneca before moving to those of Kyd, Shakespeare, Middleton, and Marston. Topics include: vengeance vs. justice, early English law, female revenge, genre-specific stage effects, and revenge tragedy parody.