WLL Introduces Gateway Course
XL 100: Leaving Home, Explorations in World Literature
“Growing up. Moving to the big city. Wisdom quest. Immigration. Tourism. How have the world’s great literatures portrayed and shaped these experiences? How have literary works themselves found new worlds through translation and adaptation?”
The pilot course had a successful first semester, co-taught by Professor Margaret Litvin and Professor Yuri Corrigan. Various members of WLL’s literature faculty joined the discussion as Guest Lectuerer’s throughout the semester. We thank all the guest lecturers: Abigail Gillman, Sunil Sharma, Wiebke Denecke, Cathy Yeh, Peter Schwartz, Keith Vincent, Yoon Sun Yang, Roberta Micallef, and Will Waters.
Many episodes of this course were recorded – look forward to video on the WLL web site soon!
***To get a sense of what WLL has to offer, take XL100: Explorations in World Literature: Leaving Home.
The course is co-taught in Fall 2017 by Professor Peter Schwartz (German literature) and Sunil Sharma (Persian and Indian Literatures), with guest lectures by WLL faculty working in many other languages and literatures.