English Literature Lectures

A brief discussion of Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout (1971)

How Beautiful We Were, Part 2

How Beautiful We Were, Part 1

Don DeLillo's White Noise, "The Airborne Toxic Event"

Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, Vol. 1

The Tiger Flu, Part 2

First of two classes on Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu.

Rita Wong's Forage

Nlaka'pamux art & Fred Wah's Pictograms of the Interior of B.C.

Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth

Spivak's "Planetarity" and Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"

In which we discuss Shelley's "Mont Blanc" and Blake's "Introduction to Songs of Experience" and "Earth's Answer"

In which we introduce the core ideas of the class through divergences and discussions

In which we discuss the second wave feminism of Angela Carter's "Bloody Chamber"

Continuing our discussion on Kraken through a Marxist lens.

In which we introduce and ping pong through China Miéville's Kraken.

In which we discuss Kiernan's "Fake Plastic Trees" and Blackwood's "The Willows" from an ecocritical lens.

In which we discuss Algernon Blackwood's "The Wendigo", Phoenix Boudreau's "Hunger", and Mathilda Zeller's "Kushtuka"

In which we discuss - in a broadly psychoanalytic framework - Frantz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa "The Hell Screen".

Second class on Lovecraft. Reading at the Mountains of Madness through a structuralist lens.

Lovecraft's 'At the Mountains of Madness', reader response theory, self-referentiality

In which we discuss the early influences of Weird fiction through Romanticism, modernity, fin de siècle literature like Poe & Gilman.