BC3161: Tragic Bodies II | N. Worman

English
Undergraduate and Graduate Seminar
W 2:10-4:00PM

This course is conceived as an advanced seminar that addresses in more depth the themes of the lecture course Tragic Bodies. It explores how dramatic enactment represents boundaries and edges and thus skin, coverings, masking, and dress-up in relation to gender and sexuality as well as race and class. The skin's tragedy most often is its vulnerabilities – its othering and debasement, its tendency to be denigrated or willfully cast off. This course will focus on these bodily edges, surfaces, and coverings, as well as touching, proximity, and affect in ancient and modern drama as well as in film. The seminar treats the three canonical Greek writers of tragedy (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides) as unifying threads and features modern re-envisionings of their dramas that challenge gender, racial, and human conventions. The course will also feature ground-breaking work on aesthetics, affect and the senses, materialities, and the post-human in order to craft with the students activist engagements with embodiment.

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