Professor: Pamela Klassen

T - 12:00pm to 2:00pm

This seminar focuses on the public memory of settler colonialism and Indigenous dispossession in North America and Turtle Island, with a focus on stories told within museums. We will be oriented by remediation in two senses: telling a story in a new medium and efforts of remedy and repair. In addition to readings and class discussions, we will have multiple class visits with curators and staff at three Harvard museums: the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, the Harvard Art Museum, and the Harvard Natural History Museum. Students will have the opportunity to engage directly with museum collections for their assignments, which will include reading reflections, cultural item biographies and labels, and a summative project in the form of a reflexive podcast, digital project, essay, or another genre of remediation.

Class Notes:

Taught by Pamela Klassen, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies

This course satisfies the English Concentration "Diversity in Literature" requirement for students on the “Common Ground” curriculum.

This course satisfies the “1900-2000 Guided Elective" requirement for English concentrators and Secondary Field students.