Bryan Alkemeyer, PhD

Courses

Here are a few examples of my courses. "Animals in Literature" directly contends with literature's relationship to human exceptionalism. Distinctions between humans and non-humans emerge as a surprisingly fundamental theme in "Making/Unmaking Britain." Finally, "Mimic Forms" illustrates a broader phenomenon: literature's power to disrupt notions of the natural, normal, or everyday.

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Animals in Literature

Dosso Dossi (1489-1542), Melissa. Photo © Galleria Borghese, Rome. https://galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it

Making/Unmaking Britain

Herman Moll, A New & Correct Map of the Whole World (1719). Photo © Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov

Mimic Forms

William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode: 4, The Toilette (ca. 1743). Photo © The National Gallery, London. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk