Courses

This class, team-taught by faculty from English and Architecture, explores radical visions of domestic life from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.  Domesticity is often associated with sentimentality, coziness and comfort--the antithesis of the word “radical” or common understandings of modernism. But there is a fascinating history of experimental and alternative forms of living that challenge stereotypes of home life. This course will begin with 19th century utopian socialism and cover topics including aestheticism, the rational household, glass houses, surrealism, queer domesticity, and more.