LITPA 3000 courses are advanced seminars in which students will critically read and assess different genres, period and traditions of literature or the performing arts through multiple lenses. Frequent reading and writing assignments will be made.During her lifetime, Octavia Butler wrote a dozen novels, won two Hugo and two Nebula Awards, and was the first ever science fiction writer to be awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant. Her novels feature vampires, time travel, alien/human dna swapping, and psionic combat; they also explore issues that continue to haunt us: race, class, sexuality, trauma, power and privilege, climate change, our history, our future, and what that pesky "our" implies. In this class, we'll read her stories and novels, critical and scholarly work about Butler and genre fiction in general, exploring both the contexts of her work and her influence up to this day.

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