Cross-listed with AMST629G. Credit will be only granted for WGSS698F or AMST629G. Restriction: Must be a student in WGSS/WMST graduate program.

What role does fantasy play in our engagement with politics? What role does politics play in our engagement with fantasy? This seminar develops an expansive approach to these questions, taking up fantasy in its full and contradictory range of meanings. Attending closely to race, gender, sexuality, class, and disability, we will explore the work of fantasy from the scale of the individual, where it operates as an internal and interpersonal formation that shapes identities and sexualities, to that of state and nation, where it serves as a collective imaginary underpinning structures of domination and resistance. Though the genre of fantasy in literature and media is not our main focus, readings will include fiction alongside interdisciplinary scholarship in queer, feminist, and critical race theory and cultural studies.