Contemporary Literature: Street Haunting in the Global City

Calendar

Ses #	Themes	Key Dates
1	Introduction
2	Haunting Exterior vs. Interior (Outside vs. Inside) Escape vs. Entrance
3	The Flaneur Close Reading, Slow Reading
4	Man of the Crowd / Man of the World The Presence of the Past / Palimpsests
5	Panopticism Metonymy Asyndeton
6	Literary Snow and Rain Days
7	Saturday and Mrs. Dalloway: A Tale of Two Openings
8	Post 9/11 and Trauma Ethics Failures, Triumphs, and Limits of the Imagination
9	Security and Invasion Psychological and Architextural Interiority
10	Brain/Mind/City: Networks and Systems
11	Re-Reading Day	Re-Reading Assignment #1 Due
12	Geography and Representation
13	Haunting and Estrangement	Paper #1 Due
14	Defamiliarization Intersectionality: Race, Class, and Gender
15	Vantage Points Race and Space Race and Representation The Uses of Genre	MIT Senseable City Lab Class Visit
16	Love Stories and Romance Plots Home, Homeland, and Homecoming
17	Windows Stereoscopic
18	Frames, Windows, and Cosmopolitanism
19	Inclusion and Exclusion	Paper #2 Due
20	Glitches, Cuts, Tears, and Splices A World Re-Arranged Back to the Future Benjamin’s Aura Beyond Symbolism: Circulating Objects, Found Objects
21	Uncanny The Sublime Collage Irony
22	From Irony to Sincerity?: Structure and Trajectory Storms, Circulating Systems, and Flickering Lights
23	Nature in the City
24	Re-Reading Day	Re-Reading Assignment #2 Due
25	Presentation of Final Creative Projects	Creative Street Haunting Assignment Due