English Literature Lectures
Episodes
Contemporary Literature [in Canada]
19 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Conclusions/review
Contemporary Literature [in Canada], Class 11
18 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dionne Brand's Inventory
Contemporary Literature [in Canada], Class 10
17 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From Joy Kogawa's Obasan
Contemporary Literature [in Canada], Class 9
16 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves
Contemporary Literature [in Canada]
12 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
Contemporary Literature [in Canada], Class 7
11 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Contemporary Literature [in Canada], Class 6
10 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Timothy Findley's The Wars (cont'd)
Contemporary Literature [in Canada], Class 5
09 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Timothy Findley's The Wars
Contemporary Literature [in Canada]
05 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Liz Howard & Jordan Abel
Contemporary Literature [in Canada], Class 3
04 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Lorena Gale's Angélique
Contemporary Literature [in Canada], Class 2
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On the TISH poetry group
Contemporary Literature [in Canada]; Class #1
02 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Class intro; Jeannette Armstrong's "History Lesson"; M. Nourbese Philip's "Discourse on the Logic of Language"
Literature & Planetarity, Week 13
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A brief discussion of Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout (1971)
Literature & Planetarity, Week 12
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How Beautiful We Were, Part 2
Literature & Planetarity, Week 11
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How Beautiful We Were, Part 1
Literature & Planetarity, Week 10
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Don DeLillo's White Noise, "The Airborne Toxic Event"
Literature & Planetarity, Week 9
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, Vol. 1
Literature & Planetarity, Week 8
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Tiger Flu, Part 2
Literature & Planetarity, Week 7
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
First of two classes on Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu.
Literature & Planetarity, Week 6
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rita Wong's Forage
Literature & Planetarity, Week 5
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nlaka'pamux art & Fred Wah's Pictograms of the Interior of B.C.
Literature & Planetarity, Week 4
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth
Literature & Planetarity, Week 3: Spivak & Conrad
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Spivak's "Planetarity" and Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"
Literature & Planetarity, Week 2 - Romanticism
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In which we discuss Shelley's "Mont Blanc" and Blake's "Introduction to Songs of Experience" and "Earth's Answer&...
Literature & the Planetary Imagination, Week 1 - Intro/s
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In which we introduce the core ideas of the class through divergences and discussions
Week 11 - Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber"
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In which we discuss the second wave feminism of Angela Carter's "Bloody Chamber"
Week 10 - Marxism & 'Kraken' (Part 2)
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing our discussion on Kraken through a Marxist lens.
Week 9 - China Miéville's Kraken (Part 1)
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In which we introduce and ping pong through China Miéville's Kraken.
Week 7 - It Came From Planet Earth!
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In which we discuss Kiernan's "Fake Plastic Trees" and Blackwood's "The Willows" from an ecocritical lens.
Week 6 - On Wendigos & (Post)Colonialism
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In which we discuss Algernon Blackwood's "The Wendigo", Phoenix Boudreau's "Hunger", and Mathilda Zeller's "Kusht...
Week 5 - Kafka & Akutagawa: Psychoanalytic Weird
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In which we discuss - in a broadly psychoanalytic framework - Frantz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa "The He...
Week 4 - H.P. Lovecraft: Structural Chaos
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Second class on Lovecraft. Reading at the Mountains of Madness through a structuralist lens.
Week 3 - Lovecraft's Phenomenal Worlds
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lovecraft's 'At the Mountains of Madness', reader response theory, self-referentiality
Week 2 - First real class
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In which we discuss the early influences of Weird fiction through Romanticism, modernity, fin de siècle literature like Poe & Gilman.