RFW FICTION: UTOPIA, DYSTOPIA, HETEROTOPIA. This course offers Writing students an interdisciplinary approach to the outstanding authors and works of utopian, dystopian, and heterotopian literature—such as Thomas More, el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Aldous Huxley, Octavia Butler, and N.K. Jemisin—in conjunction with the works of twentieth century social, cultural, and political thinkers whose ideas the fictional texts both inform and engage, such as W.E.B DuBois, Michel Foucault, Fredric Jameson, Donna Haraway, and Kodwo Eshun, among others. Students will develop a nuanced understanding of certain forms of fiction as responding to political, social, and cultural debates, as well as the ways in which those same debates incorporate and respond to literary and aesthetic production. *Note: Students who have taken Prof. Fuerst’s RFW Dystopian Fiction will not be eligible to take this course.