Syllabus:

(An updated version of the syllabus, including the final selection of required texts will be available from the Moodle course site.)

Please note that the course begins on 22 February.

Week 1
INTRODUCTION

Week 2
George Rippey Stewart: Storm (1941)

Week 3 & 4
Walter M. Miller: A Canticle for Horowitz (1959)

Week 5 & 6
Ursula Le Guin: The Word for World Is Forest (1972) & Avatar

Week 7
Sara Baume: A Line Made By Walking (2017) – the seminar will be led by Dr. Jessica Bundschuh from University of Stuttgart

Week 8 & 9
Edward Abbey: The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) & screening of Kelly Reichardt’s Nigh Moves (2013)

Week 10
Jeanette Winterson: The Stone Gods (2007)

Week 11 & 12
Amitav Ghosh: Gun Island (2019)