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Jul 02, 2025
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book
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ENG 100/151 - In Passing: Performed Identities in Literature3 Credits
Offered periodically
What does it mean to pass as someone you’re not? Or to not pass as someone you are? Focusing on gender, race, and ethnicity, this course will explore how identity can be performed. Through readings in drama, fiction, and poetry, we will consider the experiences of the gender-bending character in disguise, the mixed-race person passing as white, and the assimilating immigrant adapting to a new culture. By looking at ways identity can be literally enacted (through costuming, affectation, and language), we will examine the underlying social constructs that reveal how identity is performed in everyday life. What is at stake in these performances and what is their relationship to authenticity?
Core Curriculum Attribute(s): Language, Arts, and Humanities
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