HIST-LIT 10: Introduction to Cultural Studies

Instructor: Angela Allan and Raphael Allison
Meeting time: TBD

This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary theories and methods of cultural studies. Conducting rigorous analysis of landmark texts from the canon of twentieth-century critical thought, we’ll engage with theories of power, ideology, and identity. At the same time, we’ll consider how culture shapes and is shaped by its social, political, and historical contexts. This class will analyze a variety of cultural objects—including film, media, art, advertisements, and much more—alongside major works by Freud, Barthes, Foucault, Benjamin, Hall, Horkheimer and Adorno, Mulvey, and Said, among others.