Final Project - Intro to World Literature

This ENGL 102: Introduction to World Literature final project/portfolio replaces the final examination. Since the course theme is Identity and Home, the students present and submit a creative response to the course theme. In addition to the creative piece, the students revise their first in-class essay similarly titled and modelled after Bertrand Russell’s essay “What I Have Lived For.” This project also demands a reflection of their revision as well as an artist statement on their creation. Their reflection must include a definition of identity and/or home. Note that this assignment is not in lieu of a research essay. The previously submitted research essay builds on the second in-class essay in this course.

Bio: Lydia Forssander-Song is an assistant professor (sessional) at Trinity Western University where she has taught English Literature since 1998. Her specialization is in postcolonial and migrant literatures, and she is especially interested in the works of authors Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Madeleine Thien. She is also the current coordinator of First-year English.