Program Overview

Our intensive short course A Confusion of Tongues: Illness, Language, Writing introduces you to key themes and issues that arise in twentieth- and twenty-first-century representations of illness in literary, visual and aural texts.

You will learn how to analyse these representations by drawing on contemporary work in the fields of medical humanities, medical education, psychoanalysis, cultural and critical theory and literary theory. The emphasis is on reading primary (literary, visual and aural) cultural texts, alongside secondary critical and theoretical texts. In this way, you will develop the ability to conceptualise the relations between illness, language and writing, at the same time as analysing representations of embodiment and illness.

We plan to cover the following topics:

A Confusion of Tongues: Illness, Language, Writing is taught as two daily seminars for five consecutive days.

This course is non-credit bearing, so carries no credit points.