Syllabi

Overview

These peer-reviewed syllabi are organized around specific themes that seek to challenge and expand traditional ideas of Victorian Studies. Introducing each syllabus is a short essay that expounds upon the critical framing of the syllabus to make explicit how an undisciplined approach to teaching Victorian Studies informs course design, the selection of materials, assignment construction, and pedagogical practices.

Emplacing Race, Gender, and Empire

Undisciplining White Feminism (1)

Emplacing Race, Gender, and Empire

Undisciplining White Feminism (2)

The Nineteenth-Century Religious Other

Identity and Belief in Victorian Britain

Religion, Secularism, Empire

Constructing Religion and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Religion, Secularism, Empire

Empire of Religion

Religion, Secularism, Empire

Religion and the Transimperial

Beyond “Victorian” Literature

Multiethnic Literature: Global Neo-Victorians

Beyond “Victorian” Literature

British Literature II: A Representative Survey

The Nineteenth-Century Religious Other

The Muslim “Other” in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

The Nineteenth-Century Religious Other

Nineteenth-Century Jewish British Literature

The Nineteenth-Century Religious Other

Hinduism and Imperial Interventions in Victorian Literature

Deconstructing the Literary Canon

UVC in India: Case Study of JUDE

Deconstructing the Literary Canon

Capital L-Literature: Intro to Grad Studies

Deconstructing the Literary Canon

Canon Fodder: What Should We Read?

Centering Black Studies

Race, Trans-Atlantic Slavery, and the Empire

Centering Black Studies

Black (Im)mobilities

Centering Black Studies

The Victorian and the Human

Gender and Empire

Victorian Women of the World

Gender and Empire

Nineteenth-Century Women Write the Empire

Recontextualizing the Victorians

Reintroducing the Victorians

Recontextualizing the Victorians

Unsettling Victorian Literature