Scribner Seminar Program
Course Description
Diasporic Memories
Instructor(s): Aurelie Matheron, World Languages and Literatures
An interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary literary and cultural works about the how diasporic movements shape our relationship to culture, history, language, and literacy. In this course, you will study fictional and non-fictional works that engage with the Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanophone, and Arabophone diasporas in the 20th and 21st centuries. We will pair up our study of novels, movies, and installation works, with theoretical works grounded in memory studies, to understand how diasporic movements have been shaping counter- and alter-memories to dominant historical narratives of globalization.
Course Offered: 2026