Join Professor of English and Comparative Literature Rachel Adams

From the beginning, people with disabilities have been included — the melancholic Gilgamesh, the unsightly Thersites in The Iliad, the cyclops in The Odyssey, blind Isaac and limping Jacob in Genesis, and numerous ill and disfigured bodies in the Christian gospels — although they have rarely been attended to as such. Through this seminar, Professor of English and Comparative Literature Rachel Adams will ask what it would mean for readers to take those characters' disabilities seriously, paying attention to their literal and figurative meanings. Keeping this tradition in mind, the course will focus on more recent works, by William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury) and Toni Morrison (Beloved).

Refreshments will be served. Please note, this Mini-Core takes place over three sessions.

Session 1 | Thurs., Jan. 22

Session 2 | Thurs., Jan. 29

Session 3 | Thurs., Feb. 5