This course looks at the global city on screen in relation to questions of crime and criminality, surveillance and occupation, hopes and fears, gender and sexuality, resistance and revolution, and space and belonging. While the “global city” occupies a central position in the generation and global ci...
Lisa Gilman is Director of the Folklore Program and Professor of Folklore and English at George Mason University in the United States. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of American Folklore. Her research interests include intangible cultural heritage, performance, music, dance, trauma, w...
Digital Storytelling (DTS) is a interdisciplinary field that utilizes traditional narrative storytelling with photographs, video, animation, sound, music, text, and a narrative voice to produce multimedia narratives. Transmedia storytelling is the practice of designing, sharing, and participating in ...
In this seminar, we will study the range of ways that the witch has functioned in American literature and culture from the end of the Civil War to the present day. Often, though not always, the witch is an unmarried woman who lives on the margins of society, a figure through whom powerful ideas about...
