CSRE 16: Ghosts, Monsters and Zombies: Exploring Race through Horror

Course Description

How do artists of color use the horror genre to negotiate, represent, and challenge issues of race? What do ghosts, monsters, and zombies come to signify beyond the exotic, exploitative, or ornamental? This course considers how race, identity, and power intersect in the horror genre. Our discussions will focus on how artists of color transform haunted histories into spaces of resistance and reclamation. Students will consider plays, performances, visual art, and film paired with theoretical essays that critically assess horror's possibilities and limits.