Topics in Biography and Memoir

This interdisciplinary course will focus on a special topic in biography and/or memoir, and one not taught in other departments or programs. It will be targeted to the particular needs of students pursuing an M.A. in the Biography and Memoir program, covering subjects that will deepen and extend their historical, literary, theoretical or psychological understanding of the forms. Examples of such courses may include feminist or queer biography/memoir; medieval or Victorian life writing; disability and memoir; writing creative nonfiction; medical and/or scientific biography; oral history; religion and life writing; memoir and social media; alternative biography/memoir; documentaries, podcasts, and biography/memoir; or biography and art history

035543