Feminism, Race and Social Justice

Questions about the causes and costs of injustice in society are often asked first – and often most potently -- in literature. So literature has often had a profound effect on social politics, literally changing the world it writes about. If you are interested in how literature engages with the politics of gender, race, class, religion, and other aspects of social justice, consider building your program around the following courses.

ENGL 2100Y: Perilous Realms: Medieval and Renaissance Literature
ENGL 2703H: Literature and Social Justice
ENGL 2705H Literature and the Environment
ENGL 3121H: Love, Honour, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Medieval Romance
ENGL 3123H: Angels and Demons, Shepherds and Shrews: Medieval Drama
ENGL 3125H: Desire, Sex, and Death on the Road to Canterbury:Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
ENGL 3304Y/3305H: Modern American Fiction
ENGL 3306Y/3307H: Latino/Latina American Literature
ENGL 3308Y/3309H: African American Literature
ENGL 3451H: Contemporary African Fiction
ENGL 3481H: Indigenous Fiction
ENGL 3483H: Indigenous Poetry
ENGL 3604Y/3605H: Theories of Race and Ethnicity
ENGL 3609H: Sick Lit
ENGL 3700Y/3701H: Writing the Body
ENGL 3707H: Literature and Globalization
ENGL 4450Y/4451H Postcolonial Texts
ENGL-4121H: Gender, Monstrosity and the Other (Advanced Studies in Middle English Literature)

Other programs that offer courses in social justice include Gender and Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies. Of particular interest to English students engaged with these topics will be:

A plan of study built around studies in social justice will be valuable to anyone thinking about a career in social work, law, politics, medicine, or NGO management, as well as anyone planning graduate work in Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies, or English.

For more information about the study of literature and social justice, contact englishadvice@trentu.ca.