Irene Sywenky
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts - Modern Languages and Cultural Studies Dept
Contact
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts - Modern Languages and Cultural Studies Dept
- isywenky@ualberta.ca
Courses
C LIT 207 - Modern Literary Thought
Major modern and contemporary theoretical schools, such as structuralism, poststructuralism, reader response, psychoanalytic critique, gender and queer theory, postcolonialism, ecocriticism and transhumanism.
C LIT 228 - Literature, Popular Culture, and the Visual Arts
Poetics of such popular genres as crime fiction, spy fiction, the horror story, etc., and their relation to mainstream literature and culture.
C LIT 243 - Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
A survey of European fairy tales and an introduction to critical and theoretical approaches to the folk tale in general and the fairy tale in particular.
MLCS 651 - Critical Theory I
Literary and cultural theory from classical times to the twentieth century from around the world. Students will read primary texts. Prerequisite: consent of Department.