Farrah Cato
Research Interests
- Speculative Fiction
- Magical Realism
- Womanist Studies and Intersectional Feminisms
- Women's Craft Works as Technologies as Resistance
- Women's Material Culture
- Critical Making
Awards
- 2020 UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award
- 2016 CAH Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award
- 2015 UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award
- 2012 Online Schools Top 20 Latin & Hispanic Professors in Florida
- 2010 UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award
- 2010 CAH Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award
Courses
Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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10406 | LIT2110 | World Literature Ⅰ | Web-Based (W) | Unavailable | |
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20253 | LIT3932 | Topics in Popular Fiction | Face to Face (P) | Tu,Th 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Unavailable |
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No courses found for Fall 2023.
Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Session | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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50581 | AML3031 | American Literature Ⅰ | Web-Based (W) | A | Unavailable | |
In this course, we will survey American literature from its beginnings to the middle of the nineteenth century. Through first-hand accounts, journals, lectures, novels, and poetry, we will:
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Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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10418 | LIT2110 | World Literature Ⅰ | Web-Based (W) | Unavailable | |
Renegades, rebels, rogues, tricksters, and the like will be the focus of this survey of early world literature. We will examine versions of this figure at various times, spaces, and places, from the Greeks to the Mayans to Shakespeare. We will investigate how they work within and against the prevailing ideas of their day, and what their tricks, cons, and/or challenges mean in their varied cultural contexts. Sometimes, our discussion will focus on individual characters, sometimes it may focus on authors, and sometimes the trickster element will be more implicit than explicit. | |||||
20512 | LIT3368 | Magical Realism in Literature | Face to Face (P) | Tu,Th 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Unavailable |
DIVERSITY AND POST-1865
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Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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93364 | LIT3381 | Women Writers of Color | Web-Based (W) | Unavailable | |
This is a post-1865 literary history class. This class is designated as a "diversity" class. This course will examine theory, poetry, and fiction produced by women writers of color in the Americas. We will investigate how these writers grapple with complex ideas about gender, ethnicity, class, and sexuality while also thinking about how they engage with one another (and us) across time, space, and genre. We will begin by reading the words of writer-theorists like Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzaldúa as a way to start understanding key concepts like Womanism and intersectionality. We'll use those theories to examine more closely works from writers like Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and NK Jemisin, dabbling in everything from the dystopic to the fantastic and even the hauntingly real. |
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81675 | LIT3933 | Literature and Law | Web-Based (W) | Unavailable | |
This is a post-1865 literary history class. This class is designated as a "diversity" class. This section of Literature and Law will examine textual representations of literary (in)justice. We’ll encounter vigilantes, avengers, and other provocative figures who urge us to think critically about how we define justice, put those definitions into practice, and what happens when those definitions are challenged. Through discussions about power, community & the individual, gender, race & ethnicity, religion, the environment, how we use language, and more, we'll consider the larger legal, ethical, and moral implications of the texts. We will wrestle with a host of legal, ethical, and moral conundrums, such as what counts as justice; who determines fair and just punishment for lawbreakers; who determines just compensation for victims; and how and when we determine which laws are worth following and upholding or not. |
Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Session | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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61252 | LIT3381 | Women Writers of Color | Web-Based (W) | A | Unavailable | |
This is a post-1865 literary history class. This class is designated as a "diversity" class. This course will examine theory, poetry, and fiction produced by women writers of color in the Americas. We will investigate how these writers grapple with complex ideas about gender, ethnicity, class, and sexuality while also thinking about how they engage with one another (and us) across time, space, and genre. We will begin by reading the words of writer-theorists like Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzaldúa as a way to start understanding key concepts like Womanism and intersectionality. In six very short weeks, we'll use these theories to examine more closely works from writers like Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson, and we'll dabble in everything from the dystopic to the mythical and the legendary to the quixotic. |
Updated: Feb 2, 2023