Instructor: Schiff
TR 11:00 AM – 12:20 PM
A seminar focused on depictions of contemporary America in novels, short stories, and films. We will likely read fiction by George Saunders, Colson Whitehead, Jennifer Egan, Toni Morrison, John Updike, Richard Powers, and others. As a capstone seminar, discussion will be central, leading to a substantive final research paper. Films will be determined in part by a class survey; past classes have watched US, First Reformed, Breaking Bad (first season), There Will Be Blood, et al.