Colonization and Medicalization in Literature

Course Description: a four-week workshop with theories and literary analysis. This interdisciplinary workshop explores the intricate intersection of colonization and medicalization through the lens of literature. It delves into the ways in which colonial science has shaped narratives, identities and perceptions within literary works. It critically analyses the impact of colonization and medicalization on our perceptions of landscape and minorities in a selection of literary works by William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John William Polidori, Bram Stoker and Charles Dicken.  

Date & Time: 11 am (UK Time), 3-10-17-24 May 2024

Fee: £100 

 Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/colonization-and-medicalization-in-literature-tickets-848179015267 

Who is this course for? 

Anyone (BA, MA, PhD and early career researchers) who is interested in learning about the relationship between colonization and medicalization. 

Anyone who is interested in a basic introduction to Medical Humanities.

Anyone who is looking for an interesting topic for research or writing their essay/thesis on.

With a certificate of completion from the Literature and Science forum. 

Course Structure: 

Week 1: Colonization and Medicalization

Week 2: Medicalization and Romanticism

Week 3: Insurgency and Disease 

Week 4: Medicalization in Victorian Literature 

About Course Convener: Dr Arya Aryan, PhD from Durham University, has a background in Contemporary Literature and Medical Humanities. He is the author of The Post-war Novel and the Death of the Author, “The Literary Critic and Creative Writer as Antagonists: Golding's The Paper Men,” “Fiction as Therapy: Agency and Authorship in Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable” and “The Traumatised Shaman: The Woman Writer in the Age of Globalised Trauma” and a reviewer for Literature Compass (Wiley), A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews (Taylor & Francis) and Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal(Warwick University).