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Jun 18, 2025
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LIT 535 - Writing Consciousness: A Queer Study Of Emily Dickinson
Expanding the Brain Wider than the Sky
Credits: 2
Delivery mode: Online
This course is an exploration of Emily Dickinson’s work through a queer lens, both as a literature class and a generative space where students are invited to examine and dialogue with Dickinson’s themes, observations, and style in their own work. Emily Dickinson is one of the most beloved modern poets of the American canon; this course incorporates stories about her life, essays about her gender and identity, material from Figuring by Maria Popova about the poet’s personal circumstances and creative process, plus of course Dickinson’s own letters and poems, which will be examined in-depth. Students are asked to adopt Dickinson’s keen powers of observation, fearless examination of environment and self, as well as her daring ways of breaking form. Connections between Dickinson’s work and students’ experiences during the practice of Transcendental Meditation will also be examined, particularly when it comes to her mystical leaps and integration of mundane and universal or cosmic themes.
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