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Skip to contentDepartment of EnglishMenu Close Search Undergraduate ProgramMFA in Creative WritingPhD in English & American LiteratureResearchStudent ResourcesOur PeopleLet your curiosity lead the way:Apply TodayHomeCoursesUpcoming EventsRecent NewsThe SpectacleContact Us Arts & Sciences Graduate Studies in A&S Literature Seminar for Freshmen ENGLISH LITERATURE 152 Over the last decade, dystopian fiction has become a pop culture fixture. The dismal futures of The Hunger Games, Netflix's Black Mirror, and Hulu's adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale are familiar to most students. In the midst of all this dystopia, this seminar asks: is there room for dystopia's positive counterpoint, Utopia? "What We Might Have Been" treats utopianism as a central idea in U.S. literary history. We will read fiction, nonfiction, and theory depicting societies that have fundamentally restructured work, family, and political life along various ideological lines, from feminism and Black nationalism to green anarchism and tecnho-libertarianism. These utopian texts allow us to dream of sometimes beautiful, sometimes strange solutions to the ongoing crises of our contemporary moment and provide an imaginative laboratory to test the consequences of different ways of organizing social, political, and economic life. In addition to the philosophical shades that utopianism takes, we will compare the various literary techniques and genres that authors have employed to express their visions. Throughout the seminar, we will interrogate the idea of America and ask the salient questions, Is another way possible? And can it happen here? Course Attributes: EN H; FYS; BU Hum; AS HUM; FA HUM; AR HUM Section 01Literature Seminar for Freshmen INSTRUCTOR: BlancM-W---- 04:00 PM | TBA View Course Listing - FL2024 Quick LinksNewsEventsOur PeopleFaculty BookshelfDepartment AwardsResourcesContactAdditional information Arts & Sciences Graduate Studies in A&SCopyright 2024 by:Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. LouisFollow Us Facebook Twitter Contact Us: Department of English [email protected] Visit the main Washington University in St. Louis website1 Brookings Drive / St. Louis, MO 63130 / wustl.edu