Hello folks, and welcome to what I hope will be a wonderful semester together of learning! I'm so excited to get to meet you (or, for those I already know, re-see you!) on Tuesday and to begin our work together.
A few things:
1. For the first day, we'll be going over course basics and then looking at a couple of poems. You can read these in advance of class if you like, but there's no requirement to do so--I will be bringing copies for you to class. The two pieces are "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold and "The Dover Bitch" by Anthony Hecht. You can find these, if you like, under our course tab for "Files"
2. In the next day or so, I'll be uploading an optional reading for you all from Judith Butler's Undoing Gender, which I think does some really interesting work to contextualize the issue of "livable worlds". Though this reading is optional, I HIGHLY recommend that you browse it. In addition to being really compelling and beautifully, accessibly written, I think it raises some stakes that are compelling for us to begin to unpack in the upcoming weeks.
Hope you all have a lovely final few days of break; again, I'm looking forward to talking soon!
All best,
Dr. Renzi
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