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This course will look at how writing about the body documents and manifests the relationship between experience and consciousness. It will examine questions of self, politics, and genre as questions of craft: How can we shape the physical worlds of our writing? How is the self – and the way we write about the self – shaped by its physical vessel? How can paying attention to the body affect the way we write, and what we write about? Using major bodily experiences like eating, movement, illness, intimacy, and ecstasy as a frame, students will read and analyse work by writers such as Eula Biss, Garth Greenwell, Sinead Gleeson, and James Baldwin, as well as complete creative writing exercises. This elective is open to both fiction and nonfiction students.