2023-2024 Academic Catalog

Mar 04, 2026

2023-2024 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENG 117 - Reads and Eats: Introduction to Food and Literature

Food is a necessity for life. Food is also a product of labor, a site of pleasure, and a social and cultural practice that carries meaning. In this class, we will explore how all these aspects of food and eating culture emerge in literary texts, and the way our readings of familiar texts might change when we attend more carefully to the role of food. We will be especially attuned to the relationship between food and such identity categories as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class.

For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Genre (C-2) requirement.

Prerequisites: IDND 018 OR VE PLACEMENT

Course Designation/Attribute: VE

Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually