This reading and writing intensive course is a study of contemporary literary texts, theories, trends, and contexts with a focus specifically on literature since 1990. Course material will address key concerns and innovative trends of current writing, including the ways in which literature depicts the individual in relation to wider social, political, cultural, and global contexts. Topics may include but are not limited to: identity politics; censorship and the individual; medical humanities; modernity, globalization, and postnationalism; psychogeography, geopolitics, and the environment.