Concentration: Cultural, Transcultural and Global Studies

Work in this area recognizes that the study of culture in English is transnational, particularly given the intellectual pressures of colonialism, postcolonialism, and Anglophone literatures. In accounting for the shifting historical realities of global culture, this concentration also promotes the study of the effects of globalization, cross-cultural exchange, class relations, and the formation of cultural identity on discourse broadly conceived. Courses in this concentration include topics such as class, gender, race, and sexuality; the public sphere, popular culture, and pedagogy as cultural practice; trans-Atlantic, comparative, and diaspora studies.

Faculty researching and teaching in this concentration:

Examples of courses taught in this concentration:   

• Gender, Race, and Class in English Studies – Theorizing Blackness
• Transatlantic Romanticism, Transatlantic Revolution, 1750-1850
• Global Cities, Global Slums
• Literature and Empire