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Climate Fiction: Summer Reading 2020

May 1, 2020by Min Hyoung Song

TV (because let’s be real, this is how a lot of us are spending our time these days) The Expanse (streaming on Amazon Prime) – An extraordinary series, based on […]

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Climate Fiction (Syllabus)

January 14, 2020by Min Hyoung Song

DESCRIPTION How can reading literature help sustain attention to climate change? If you’re taking this course, you probably already know something—maybe a lot of things—about climate change. You probably understand […]

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Contemporary Literature about the Environment (Syllabus)

August 30, 2018by Min Hyoung Song

DESCRIPTION The literary scholar Kate Marshall recently argued that critics interested in climate change often fall prey to “a demand for content,” which she describes as “an idea that the […]

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Writing About Race

June 27, 2017by Min Hyoung Song

The following are some comments about writing about race that I have started to share with my students. 1. Scholars of race in the US avoid using hyphens between terms […]

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A Conversation with a Trump Voter

January 18, 2017by Min Hyoung Song

On the way to the airport, my driver, who is maybe in his late twenties, asks, – You Korean? I can tell just by looking at you. I have a […]

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My Visit to the ER in Italy

January 18, 2017by Min Hyoung Song

It’s January. A year ago today we were trying to acclimate to life in Italy (I was teaching at a school in Venice for the spring semester). A lot happened […]

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#PostElectionSyllabus

November 12, 2016by Min Hyoung Song

Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism J. Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure Lisa Cacho, Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected Achille Mbembe, “Necropolitcs” Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth […]

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Contemporary American Fiction: Graduate Seminar (Fall 2016, Syllabus)

August 16, 2016by Min Hyoung Song

DESCRIPTION This seminar examines works of American fiction published within the past two decades with a special focus on the novel. The reading list highlights the growing diversity of authors […]

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How to Predict a Future with Climate Change

May 20, 2016by Min Hyoung Song

  In Venice (of all places!), I’ve been teaching a course entitled “The Artful Things of Climate Change.” Its focus was on the relationship between culture and this phenomenon that […]

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Artful Things of Climate Change (Syllabus)

April 18, 2016by Min Hyoung Song

Description As we reach a rough consensus that global warming is happening and that human activity is the primary driver of this warming, the really difficult questions emerge with greater […]

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