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ASE Summer Schools in Bath
June 8 - July 13, 2024
Limited places are available on each course to preserve the small, interactive class experience, and places will be allocated to suitably qualified applicants on a first-come-first-served basis.
The deadline for initial applications is February 15, 2024.
Bath, Britain and the Black Atlantic
This course examines the history of British involvement in the trade of enslaved Africans and the writing of some of the people most profoundly touched by that trade.
Legends of the Round Table
Ready for a quest? In this course, we will study the stories of King Arthur, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table, from their mediaeval origins to contemporary satires and critiques.
The Romans in Britain
This course investigates both the impact of the Roman invasion upon Britain and also the role and function of Britain within the wider Roman empire.
Queer Victorians
Though largely unrecognised as such at the time, the Victorian period was full of writers addressing what we now consider themes of ‘queer’ sexuality and gender. Literature by authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins and Oscar Wilde emphasize kinship, desire, matrimony, and domesticity, acting as a rich resource for analyses of same-sex desire, gendered and sexual subjectivities, and closeting and homophobia.