A selection of courses I have designed, developed, and compiled, aiming at literary graduates (BA, MA) and adult learners who wish to get back to part time or full time study, includes the following which are designed for the CLL at the University of Liverpool.
- The World in Liverpool
The World in Liverpool is a semester-long course on the subject of world literatures in Merseyside. It engages with socio-cultural and literary aspects of the lives of immigrants in Merseyside, focusing on the early eighteenth century to the present. The course covers literary narratives of/on the lives of immigrants, who arrived in Liverpool as slaves or merchants, covering social trends, literary, scientific, and artistic productions that they and their following generations – who were born and brought up in Merseyside – contributed to the cultural magnificence of northern England.
- Sequential Art Across the World
This course is compiled for adult learners and literary graduates, in search of an improved understanding of story-telling and text-word dynamics in contemporary and historical contexts. Based on the significance of individuals’ visual experiences of fictive and factual stories, and the way narratives are nowadays represented – compared with their historical analogues – this course offers an in-depth reading of textual interplays between hybrid patterns and written words, colours and textures. Although graphic novels are commonplace narratives combining word and image in contemporary literary markets, this course addresses these and other forms of historical multimedial story-telling, especially diverse categories coming under “Sequential Art”.
- Love-Narratives of Liverpool
From Paul McCartney’s lively All My Loving (1963) to the arts in Albert Dock & Tate exhibitions, love is a historically narrative-artistic topic in Liverpool. This dynamic course addresses how love narratives are portrayed in artistic and literary texts and images within this city, discussing how the topic of love resonates with Liverpool art galleries, and within literary works produced by its creative residents such as Felicia Hemans (1793-1835) and Adrian Henri (1932-2000). We also explore how love narratives are aesthetically demonstrated by learning about the process of visualizing print in digital humanities archives.
- The Exotic and the Erotic in Literature Beyond 1700 (I & II)
Through sequential and guided study in this course, readers are introduced to encounters of erotic-exotic literary characters at either side of Restoration, through the long eighteenth century, and on to contemporary fiction, with an opportunity to explore theoretical history of exotic eroticism in English literature. This is a course that is primarily aimed at literary graduates who wish to advance their understanding of literary characters before applying for M Level or PhD. The course offers varieties of theoretical approaches to sexual politics and sexual psychology, psychoanalytic, cultural, and psycho-social approaches to texts and contexts, including key approaches by Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Hélène Cixous, Toril Moi, and Elaine Showalter.
*** Course details including week-by-week readings and related activities are available upon request.