This course will focus on the fictional and non-fictional oeuvre of one of the most prominent Anglophone writers of our time – Salman Rushdie. Class discussions will seek to contextualize (and be contextualized by) a host of theoretical/cultural concepts deriving from postcolonial studies – like hybridity, mongrelization, migration, cosmopolitanism, national allegory– with which Rushdie’s work is associated or seen as exemplifying in particularly accurate and cogent ways. The course will be reading intensive and require significant student engagement. British, Diversity, Post-1900. Enrollment Limit: 25. Instructor: A. Needham Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.