Graduate Course Offerings

Professor Taryne Jade Taylor

Tuesday & Thursday, 4:45pm–7:55pm

This course will focus on a variety of contemporary futurisms in literature, film, and music such as Afrofuturisms, African Futurisms, Indigenous Futurisms, Latinx Futurisms, Asian Futurisms, and Gulf/Middle Eastern Futurisms. Each of these futurisms is an identifiable subgenre, movement, mode, and aesthetic within the field of science fiction and fantasy studies. Futurist creators use science fictional thinking to build just, inclusive futures; to critique and bear witness to the injustices of the past and present; and perhaps, most importantly, to offer us all hope. These futurist texts showcase the way that people of color, in the face of the apocalypse, engage in science fictional thinking to build a better tomorrow, to heal and rebuild, to look towards a more collaborative, collective way of being in the world. We’ll focus our studies on recent literature, film, and music that is reshaping the genres of science fiction and fantasy. 

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