Instructor: Joanne Woiak, jwoiak@uw.edu
Summer B-term
Distance Learning: Tues & Wed class meetings 1:50-4:00pm on Zoom; course can be completed entirely asynchronously. Please contact instructor Joanne Woiak for further information. The course is designed to provide flexibility in how you access the content and how you show your engagement with the material in the online learning format!
Course description: Disabled, BIPOC, and multiply marginalized activist-artists in the speculative fiction (SF) genre produce worlds that “write ourselves into the future,” as visionary author Octavia Butler puts it. This course will explore SF short stories, films, and novels that use speculative settings and nonrealist conventions to comment on current political, social, and ethical concerns focusing on disability and race.
We will read:
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts
Syllabus: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1655790