My Spring Section of ENC 1102 focuses on migration and adaptation in British Nineteenth Century Literature and Twentieth Century Postcolonial Literature. The broad argument of the class is that postcolonial literature that adapts Romantic and Victorian literature can be studied from a transnational viewpoint — specifically that of the transnational migrant who may have no “home.” Assignments include a GoogleMap Essay, a Film, and a Poster Presentation. The poster presentation will be a research project where groups of students will research the original novel and adaptations of one of the major characters from Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Readings include poetry by Lord Byron and William Blake; short stories by Paul Bowles and Daniel Defoe; novels by J. M. Coetzee and Salman Rushdie; films by Bernardo Bertolucci, Stephen Frears, and Steve Jacobs; and a graphic novel by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill.