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Course Listings for the <\/strong>2025-2026 <\/strong>Academic Year\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Please note: students are responsible for ensuring that their selected courses meet the program requirements stated in the Calendar. If, however, you feel that you need additional information or guidance please contact us.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Fall 2025 Courses<\/h3>\n

CLMD 6101T (CRN 31096)
\nPerspectives on Interdisciplinarity in Cultural Theory<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This course will address the theory and practice of interdisciplinary studies of culture. Attention will be paid to those themes and issues in cultural theory of the\u00a0twentieth and twenty-first\u00a0centuries that inform contemporary interdisciplinary work in literature, film, music, art and new media. \u200eThis course is continued in the second semester.<\/p>\n

CLMD 6900T (CRN 31101)
\nInterdisciplinary Research Methods<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The primary goal of this year-long,\u00a0workshop-based course for second-year doctoral students is to help students\u00a0prepare for the second comprehensive examination and dissertation\u00a0research. The\u00a0class will offer students a supportive space in which to workshop their second\u00a0comprehensive examination lists and their preliminary dissertation proposals.\u00a0Students will work\u00a0together to develop and exchange ideas about their teaching\u00a0fields and dissertations with their peers and to benefit from constructive\u00a0criticism. Be prepared to engage with other students\u2019\u00a0scholarship fully and\u00a0constructively as we discuss, develop and refine plans for future research.<\/p>\n

The second major goal of the course is to foster\u00a0practical skills and knowledge necessary for academic success at the doctoral\u00a0level and beyond. The course will help students master various\u00a0aspects of the\u00a0academic profession including: writing OGS and SSHRC plans of study, becoming\u00a0acquainted with library resources, academic publishing, conference paper\u00a0presentations,\u00a0research ethics and other professional concerns. Further topics\u00a0will be introduced in response to student need. This course is continued in the second semester.<\/p>\n

CLMD 6102F (CRN 31097) \/ ARTH 5112F \/ MGDS 5002E
\nIssues in Transnationalism: Sovereignties of the Imagination: Worlding and Visual Activism<\/strong><\/p>\n

This course takes Barbadian writer George Lamming\u2019s Sovereignty of the Imagination (2004) as a starting point for imagining more just and equitable worlds through making that would challenge hegemonic conceptions of Being worlded from the European Enlightenment (Wynter). It considers how new vocabularies of freedom, of the freedom to be, have been produced through acts of refusal and resistance, by artists and other makers from the multiple geographies of the global majority. We are interested in practices such as beadwork, inkpainting, calligraphy, pottery, textiles, protest, music and dance that propose new imaginations of what is possible by making and remaking the modern world through objects, artworks and discourses in the context of various degrees of unfreedom. It is through these condensations of cultural feelings or art practices that new sensibilities emerge, which articulate modes of fashioning possible possibles (Escobar), for being otherwise in structures of impossibility. Reimagining modernities other than those which centre progress and a liberal world order, Sovereignties explores the possibilities and limitations of projects that articulate new and wayward worlds (Hartman). The course is being taught in collaboration with Wayne Modest, Director of Content, Wereldmuseum, and Professor, Vrije University Amsterdam. It is part of a larger project, which includes exhibitions, seminars, performances, reasonings, and publications.<\/p>\n

CLMD 6104F (31098) \/ENGL 5610F
\nIssues in Cultural Politics: New Life for Old Things<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In this course, we will consider contemporary writers and image-makers who use the past to grapple with the crises of our present, including pandemic, rising fascism, environmental catastrophe, and war. We will examine a range of media including photography, film, and sculpture but our focus will be on narrative nonfiction. Here are some of the questions we will pursue together: How do writers use the biographies of earlier writers, theorists, and artists to structure and complicate their reflections on present? What forms of continuity do they construct between the present and the distant past (telling the story of very old trees, for example) that might provide contemporary readers a kind of sustenance? How do the cultural producers we study innovate\u2014in their use of narrative structure, unusual imaging technology, or hybrid form\u2014to defamiliarize the relationship between the past and the present? And how are traumatic events that continue to haunt retold and imaged?<\/p>\n

CLMD 6105F (31099) \/ FILM 5002F\u00a0
\nIssues in the Technology of Culture: Media\u00a0and\u00a0Emotion\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>
\nPlease also register in CLMD 6105 FF (31100)\/ FILM 5002F\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

This graduate seminar will consider the ways that emotion figures in theoretical and historical accounts of film and related audio-visual media. Questions about emotion and \u201caffect\u201d are at the root of contemporary debates about identity, subjectivity, politics, and representation. Yet, the body\u2014its sensual capacities and vulnerabilities\u2014is often figured as that which media technologies and those who study them must overcome or entirely deny. Our primary concern will be tracing this intellectual history and the ways contemporary media culture and recent theoretical shifts reframe the relationship between media and emotion. We will use screenings and readings as materials to think (and feel) with.<\/p>\n

CLMD 6904F (31104) \/ ENGL 5002F
\nSpecial Topics in Cultural Mediations: The Dark Enlightenment and Neoreactionary (NRx) Thought – Critiques of Liberal Modernity<\/strong><\/p>\n

This seminar examines the\u00a0Dark Enlightenment\u00a0and\u00a0Neoreactionary (NRx) Thought\u00a0as reactionary critiques of democracy, egalitarianism, and Enlightenment rationality. Emerging from the digital peripheries of techno-capitalism, these movements\u2014articulated by figures such as\u00a0Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug), Nick Land, Thomas Carlyle, and Carl Schmitt\u2014reject liberal modernity and propose alternative governance models ranging from monarchy to corporate rule. As these ideological formations seek to reshape contemporary power structures, how do literary and cultural texts resist, unsettle, or aesthetically disaffirm the world they envision?<\/p>\n

Situating the Dark Enlightenment within critical theory, biopolitics, and affect studies, we will read reactionary texts alongside literary and cultural works that interrogate the seductive lure of authoritarianism, the racialized logics of techno-capitalism, and the necropolitical structuring of the future. Drawing on Foucault, Berlant, Butler, and Mbembe, among others, we will trace how reactionary modernity constructs itself through esotericism, nostalgia, and technocratic legitimacy. Throughout the course, we will engage with literary fiction, film, and speculative media that expose the fractures in this reactionary imaginary\u2014whether through satire, dystopian critique, or aesthetic experimentation.<\/p>\n

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Winter 2026 Courses\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

CLMD 6101T (CRN 11062)
\nPerspectives on Interdisciplinarity in Cultural Theory<\/strong>
\nThis course is a continuation of CLMD 6101 in the first semester. It will address the theory and practice of interdisciplinary studies of culture. Attention will be paid to those themes and issues in cultural theory of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that inform contemporary interdisciplinary work in literature, film, music, art and new media.<\/p>\n

CLMD 6900T (11067)
\nResearch and Professional Development: <\/em><\/strong>Interdisciplinary Research Methods<\/strong><\/em>
\nThis course is a continuation of CLMD 6900 in the first semester. See above for course description.<\/p>\n

CLMD 6102W (11063) \/ENGL 5004W \/EURR 5201B \/MGDS 5002D
\nIssues in Transnationalism: Black Europe<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This seminar explores \u201cBlack Europe\u201d as a historical phenomenon, a theoretical framework, and a set of artistic practices. We will engage with a series of creative and critical works that foreground Europe\u2019s historical and contemporary entanglements with Africa and its diasporas. Reframing European history and culture from Black perspectives, these works challenge an understanding of Europe as a bounded, racially homogenous space.<\/p>\n

The range of topics will include: European travel narratives by Black authors (from W.E.B. DuBois and James Baldwin to Caryl Phillips and Johny Pitts); Black musical performers and genres in Europe from the 19th<\/sup> century to the present (classical, vaudeville, jazz, rap, hip hop); novels of the \u201cWindrush generation\u201d of early postwar Caribbean immigrants to Britain; Black German activist poetics and autobiography from the 1980s onward; and recent artistic and curatorial interventions that recuperate Black women muses of white European writers and painters (Baudelaire, D\u00e9gas).<\/p>\n

The interdisciplinary design of this course is critical to its excavation of Black European cultural histories that have been occluded by more conventional disciplinary lenses. Reading across different media will help to expose the \u201cbundles of silences\u201d (Trouillot) surrounding the contributions of Black artists\u2014especially Black women artists\u2014to European literature, art history, and music.<\/p>\n

CLMD 6103W (11064) \/CDNS 5301B \/ENGL 5900W
\nIssues of Cultural Mediation & Representation<\/strong><\/p>\n

This graduate seminar will contend with urgent socio-cultural challenges in Canada through contemporary approaches to the study of national culture on Turtle Island, asking what does it mean to research and practice cultural studies in socially responsible ways (responsible to whom and how)? what can culture and its study offer at times of relational crises? and how \/ can cultural studies foster a site of relation making between communities, or rather, make relations right?<\/p>\n

In our discussions we will attend to the state\u2019s pivotal role in shaping Canada\u2019s cultural industries and national identity, historicize the study of culture in\/about Canada, and examine contemporary and emerging theories and approaches in cultural studies (from multiculturalism, to critical refugee studies, Indigenous literary nationalism, Black feminisms, ecocriticism, ethics of care, memory, performance, and queer studies). We will focus on questions of relationality in Canadian cultural production and is open to both Masters and PhD students.<\/p>\n

CLMD 6104W (11065) \/ARTH 5218W \/HIST 5702
\nIssues in Cultural Politics: Towards an Indigenous Museology: Encounter, Exchange and Relational Practice<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This course will present Indigenous history through careful examination of moments of encounter as they have been mediated through visual and material culture and display. In drawing from the work of Mary Louise Pratt and her understanding of \u201cthe contact zone,\u201d this course aims to foreground the interactive material dimensions of encounter and will seek to explore these cross-cultural exchanges by complicating simplified models of conquest\/domination and stimulus\/response, and instead will present a primary focus on the agency of Indigenous peoples in the ongoing interactions of the contact zone. Topics revisited throughout the term will include issues of trope and stereotype, histories of collecting, the politics of display, imposed systems of colonial control, cross-cultural understandings of value, and the movement towards Indigenous and decolonial museologies. Working from a pedagogical framework centered on visiting, relationality and \u201ckitchen table talk,\u201d this course will consider the ways in which Indigenous and decolonial practices have- and continue to- generate and mobilize epistemologies of resistance and liberation within and beyond the museum walls.<\/p>\n

CLMD 6105W (11066) \/ MUSI 5020W\u00a0
\nIssues in the Technology of Culture: Sound Studies<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Music and Cultural Theory II is intended to explore, in depth, a limited range of debates within contemporary theory and culture and to assess their relevance to music. Sound Studies is a relatively new but well-established, interdisciplinary field that includes a diverse range of objects of study addressed through an equally diverse range of disciplinary concerns and methodologies; in recent years, some of its foundational works and epistemologies have been critiqued from the perspectives of race, sexuality, and decolonization. While \u201cmusic\u201d falls within the range of phenomena investigated within sounds studies, music is neither its primary focus nor the termination point of much of the theorizing within the field. Nevertheless, adopting some of the theoretical perspectives within sound studies (and their critiques) is useful in challenging how we think about music and, conversely, music may allow us to discuss and analyze some of the limits of sound studies as it has come to be defined.<\/p>\n

CLMD 6902W (11069)\u00a0
\nSpecial\u00a0Topic in\u00a0Cultural Mediations: Making and Re-making the World: Cross Disciplinary Activations of Geographical Thinking<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

This seminar will ask students to engage in \u201cgeographical thinking\u201d as it pertains to historical and speculative acts of world-making across a range of case studies, including films. The course will be designed in accordance with the logics of traction and flight; as we will study repeatable structures and forms, such as the property form and its links to the making of settler colonial worlds while also studying scholarly, artistic and critical propositions for new structures, formations and ways of inhabiting the world that are rooted in anticolonial and anti-carceral thinking and aspirations.<\/p>\n

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