How do stories and threads stitch us together? In this class, we’ll explore how we are woven into family and community by reading Alice Walker, Ruperta Bautista Vazquez, and the historian, Tiya Miles, who teaches us that cloth “symbolically represents our own bodies, our temporal lifelines, and our social ties to one another.” We will turn to the work of artists such as Faith Ringgold, Kimsooja, and Raisa Kabir and ask: How do things like quilts and clothes tell stories, hold knowledge, and make meaning? Projects will offer opportunities for writing and textile forms of making.Modern Topics courses are designed for Writing and Literature Majors and Minors and are focused on the critical investigation of a specific modern topic, movement, style, or tradition of literary and performative production, typically after the year 1900. Students will read and write critically on these topics, including multi-modal responses, and will position the texts within a socio-historical context.

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