This Study Abroad program will trace literature’s travel through time and examine how literature becomes part of pop culture, in film and TV adaptations, in stage performances, print history, and through public events or public places of commemoration and celebration.
Together, we will explore, first in theory and in our US classroom and then in practice and in our Irish and UK immersive travel experience, how/why/to what extent a given literary text (this includes oral and written literature) has been echoed or is made to represent, preserve, and, in some cases, alter and impact a culture.Abroad in Ireland and the UK, students will be encouraged to attend theater performances; visit sights that stand in close connection to Irish and British literature; and explore Irish, English, and Scottish print and pop culture.
Check out Shakespeare & Pop Culture in England, the 2014 Study Abroad trip, and Literature & Pop Culture in England and Scotland, the 2016 Study Abroad trip.
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