Feminist Writings (Video)

This course seeks to study some of the key texts in feminist writings that engage with issues such as patriarchy, violence, embodiment, agency, and identity. Through a careful study of selected fiction and non-fiction, the course aims to offer a complex understanding of gender and representation, drawing on literary as well as cultural studies.

Gender and Literature (Video)

Gender and Literature is an examination of selected literary texts and cultural conditions from the standpoint of gender theory. It will draw on established scholarship on gender studies and take the student through the various configurations and reconfigurations that determine gendered classifications such as masculinity and femininity.

Introduction to cultural studies (Video)

This course intends to examine culture, cultural identities and politics of production across various human historical conditions. Culture is examined in this course as an asymmetrical entanglement of material and abstract attributes and hence the course draws on political theory, psychology and critical theory, among other disciplines, in order to investigate the constructed categories of identity, authority and knowledge.