Current Courses

A six-week short course, the seminar investigates strategies of and challenges to communicating climate science in the context of digital media developments of the last two decades, with a particular focus on American journalism and social media cultures. Students examine and experiment with a range of media—including documentary, op-ed, data visualization, immersive storytelling, and virtual and augmented reality.

Food is central to histories of migration and globalization, work and leisure, inequality and reparative justice, industrialization and environmental health. This advanced seminar in American Studies investigates how current political movements that are responsive to these histories intersect with food as a site for creative expression and artistic experimentation. Through this lens, the seminar explores diverse visions of food systems and food cultures in the U.S.