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The Hybrid Workshop is one of the most important aspects of graduate studies, where students bring together their varied interests to create a multigenre, interdisciplinary text. Connections to the visual and performative are welcome. The Hybrid Workshop is meant to facilitate connections between students seminar courses and the themes of these workshops. Instead of focusing on works of a particular genre for an entire semester, students gain a historical understanding of the evolution of hybrid texts, paying particular attention to works from the beginning of the 20th century. They also learn the importance of presenting their work as a chapbook and/or writing that engages the visual arts. The Hybrid Workshop is as much about creative practice as it is about the articulation of the process and learnings behind that practice. Through a series of self-relfective essays students will also learn ways in which they can connect their practice to their critical thinking and readings.

Topics for these intensive, practical modules change every semester. May be taken twice for credit.

Any text that speaks truth to power and gives voice to the voiceless has affinities with postcolonial studies, if not a claim to being postcolonial. This course will address key concepts in postcolonial studies to interrogate representations of race, gender, colonial capitalism and the environment. Straddling languages, genres, cultures and continents, our texts create a space for hybrid identities. No prerequisites.

Topics vary by semester