This is a zine-style syllabus of an undergraduate literary theory and cultural studies survey at Cal Poly Pomona. The course has two units. The first is a broad orientation to literary theory by touching on formalism, structuralism, psychoanalysis, and historicism briefly before using representative examples to read Shelley’s Frankenstein in a…[Read more]

The attached is the schedule that I devised for an entry-level, cross-disciplinary grad course in digital humanities, offered across several schools and departments. It is licensed by Creative Commons as Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International, meaning that you are free to adapt and repurpose it for non-commercial uses as long as…[Read more]

The book: it’s a soothingly familiar technology, one we all know how to operate. Open the front covers to reveal the text; turn the page to continue reading. Yet even the most seemingly ordinary aspects of the book, like titles and page numbers, had to be invented. In this course, we will work to defamiliarize the book, investigating how the f…[Read more]

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