Course Description
Summary
Who says you have to be disciplined to be a writer? After all, theorist Christina Sharpe writes in her book, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, that undisciplined thinking can be waged as a weapon against the boundaries of traditional academic thought and practice. For Sharpe, being undisciplined isn’t about failing to be disciplined, it’s about aspiring to being unconstrained by disciplinary, social, and professional boundaries. Alongside a close reading of Sharpe, we’ll design and explore undisciplined writing practices of our own, spending much of class time engaged in the act of writing. Students will keep writing journals throughout the semester where they’ll record their ongoing experiences of both in-class and outside-of-class writing.
