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Labio, Catherine

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  • Dr. Labio's current research takes place at the intersections of literature and economics and literature and the visual arts. She is working on two book manuscripts. The first is on the cultural and economic history of the Mississippi Bubble of 1720. The second highlights the three-dimensionality of comics and the relationship between comics and architecture.

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  • Modern and contemporary European literature and philosophy (including aesthetics), The Enlightenment, literature and economics, finance and culture, literature and the visual arts, book arts, European comics, comics and architecture, literary and critical theory, history of the novel

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  • ENGL 2017 - World Literature
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2021 / Fall 2024
    Songs. Epics. Autobiographies. Novels. Tales. Plays. Films. These genres appear across cultures, languages, and historical periods. This course focuses on how genres work in a variety of cultures and time periods, reading work written in English and in translation. Students will gain a deep understanding of the possibilities of that genre as well as an introduction to the way that literature travels between cultures. Topics and focus will vary by instructor.
  • ENGL 2112 - Introduction to Literary Theory
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Spring 2022
    This course introduces students to a wide range of critical theories essential to the study of literature. Critical theories have broad applications because they provide ways to interpret all cultural products, including visual arts, music, and writing. We will investigate some of the major movements relevant to literary studies, which may include, for example, cultural studies, structuralism, feminisms, ecocriticism, critical race theories, postmodern theory, media theories, etc.
  • ENGL 3060 - Modern and Contemporary Literature for Nonmajors
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Spring 2020
    Close study of significant 20th-century poetry, drama, and prose works. Readings range from 1920s to the present.
  • ENGL 3164 - History and Literature of Georgian Britain
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2023
    The Georgian era (1714-1811) was a period of staggering political, social, economic, intellectual, and artistic transformations. This course studies how literary and artistic works have shaped and responded to the tumultuous history of the eighteenth century, a period both modern and strange. Students learn how writers embraced politeness and Enlightenment values while relying on crude satires to make sense of disease outbreaks, financial bubbles and crashes, changes to marriage, industrialization, slavery, and the French Revolution.
  • ENGL 4039 - Capstone in Literary Studies
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2024
    Topic varies by section, but all sections include small seminar discussions and focus on an individualized research project related to the topic. This course will draw on skills from previous courses in critical reading, thinking, and writing and will culminate in high-level discussions and in the final project. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
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