The Craft of Writing

This course will consider the historical construction of the human body in Western culture. We will be exploring various ways the body has been imagined – philosophical, medical, visual, etc. Readings for the class will include works by Michel Foucault, Elaine Scarry, and Jonathan Sawday. These texts will orient us to rethink the certainty of what we deem the human body and how the body as a concept has been shaped alongside shifting ideologies.