Courses on offer / Gender Studies Centre - Dr. Bülgözdi Imola | Institute of English and American Studies

AN3300BA Women Writers of the American South (BA, American Literature 4) seminar
The aim of this seminar is to present an overview of the literary output of the Southern states in the 20th century, focusing on women writers who have made their presence felt on the literary scene since the Southern Renaissance. Based on the analysis of short stories by Zora Neale Hurston, Caroline Gordon, Catherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, the peculiarities of Southern fiction will be discussed in terms of the position of women writers and the differences between Southern and mainstream American writing.

AN3017MA-Masculinity and Femininity in American Literature
American Studies MA seminar
The aim of this course is to give an introduction to the social constructionist approach to gender and illustrate the problematic articulation of gender, race, age and social background through the discussion of short stories, novels and plays. Stereotyping in the visual representation of gender will also be explored in the film adaptation of some of these works and in popular culture as well. The concepts of social and personal identity, hegemonic masculinity, contingent identity, gender naturalization will be introduced and witnessed in practice. On a practical note, content analysis and the formulation of research questions will be incorporated, based on findings of empirical research.