AFEN3816: What to expect

Dear all, people had questions about the Spring course, so I wanted to say that its a bit of a work in progress. The last time I taught it we were working both with the International Center for Photography and The Schomburg Center.  This will be a quieter experience, but here’s what to expect: We hopefully will combine further investigations of Ntozake’s work with some collaborative work and your own creation of some sort of digital project.  Here’s what that looks like, pending further conversations with the Digital Humanities Center.

–the themes will be collaboration, improvisation, and archiving. Most of the works  (Shange’s and other peoples) we examine will be self-conscious about those qualities  (I don’t know if you can read it, but I have put in a screenshot of works we might be reading, Spell #7 is not on that list, but will probably be there).

–I expect that within the first month of classes you will have conceived of a digitally based project that you will work on throughout the semester.

— I hope we will work together on one project, which right now is looking like a published Zotero biblography on Shange & her impact.

–I hoping that we will have a workshop on choreographing a poem with +SLMDance company.

Proposed Book list for 2019