Courses

In conjunction with our Fellowship programs, the Gray Center offers co-taught courses covering topics related to the ongoing, experimental collaborations of the instructors. The list below provides basic information on upcoming, current, and previous Gray Center courses. More information is available by clicking through the listings below.

Upcoming

Title: Getting the 90s We Deserve (ENGL 24788/44788)
Quarter: Winter 2026
Fellowship: Feeling the 90s (Jonathan Flatley and CHEAP)

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Title: TBD (Study Abroad Program, UChicago Paris Center)
Quarter: Spring 2026
Fellowship: KAVAH Fermata (Mark Philip Bradley and Tiffany Chung)

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Past

Revolutionary Erotics (Leah Feldman and Slavs and Tatars) 2025

Cinema and the Speculative Archive: Theory & Practice Seminar (Allyson Nadia Field and Christopher Harris) 2024

Paraäcademia: Art, Spirituality, and Social Healing (Zachary Cahill and vanessa german) 2024

Dance as History (Tarah Zahra and Meredith Dincolo) 2023

(re) Queering the American Musical (Leslie Buxbaum, David Levin, and Erin McKeown) 2023

Radical Therapies (William Mazzarella, Aaron Schuster, and Imogen Stidworthy) 2023

Useless Performing Skateboard Poetics: Style, Motion, and Space (Kyle Beachy, Tina Post, and Alexis Sablone) 2023

Economic Objects: Capitalism as Medium (Seth Kim-Cohen, Leigh Clare La Berge, and Salomé Aguilera Skirvsky) 2022

Radical Reading (Leah Feldmand and Slavs and Tatars) 2022

Common Place: Art, Advocacy and Health Equity (Julia Kuo, Dr.Monica Peek, and Dr. Elizabeth Tung) 2022

Biography, History, Art: Documenting Blakelock (Ric Burns and Lawrence Rothfield) 2021

Water, Water Everywhere? (Susan Gzesh, Iñigo Manglano-Ovale, and Abigail Winograd) 2021

Untidy Objects (Sara Black, Samantha Frost, and Amber Ginsburgh) 2021

Valuations, Economies, and Revised Ecologies for the Black Image (Romi Crawford and Theaster Gates) 2020

The Sonic Image (Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Hannah B Higgins, and W.J.T. Mitchell) 2019

FoodCultura (Miralda and Stephan Palmié) 2019

Drawn Together: Comics Culture in the Middle East (Fadi “the fdz” Baki, Ghenwa Hayek, and Omar Khouri) 2019

Film and Revolution (Robert Bird and Cauleen Smith) 2019

Re-Assemblage: Studio R-A (Bill Brown and Ted Brown) 2018

Art and Knowledge (Pope.L and Dieter Roelstraete) 2018

Literature of the Fantastic and Operatic Adaptation (Yao Chen and Judith Zeitlin) 2018

VoiceGrooveSong (Glen Kotche and Steven Rings) 2017

Imagining Futures: Speculative Design and Social Justice (Patrick Jagoda, Melissa Gilliam, and  Thenmozhi Soundararajan) 2017

Framing, Re-framing, and Un-framing Cinema (Marc Downey, Tom Gunning, Paul Kaiser) 2016

Archaeological Experiments in Filmmaking (Shannon Lee Dawdy and Daniel Zox) 2016

Breathing Matters: Poetics and Politics of Air (Caroline Bergvall, Judd Morrissey, and Jennifer Scappettone) 2016

Architectural History and Critical Media Practice (Victor Burgin and D.N. Rodowick) 2015

Improvisational Dramaturgy (Sean Griffin, George Lewis, and Catherine Sullivan) 2014

Never The Same- Summer Seminar (Daniel Tucker and Rebecca Zorach) 2013

Transmedia Games: Theory and Design (Patrick Jagoda and Sha Xin Wei) 2012

The Interaction of Light and Matter: Art and Science (James Carpenter and Sydney Nagel) 2012

Lines of Transmission: Comics and Autobiography (Alison Bechdel and Hillary Chute) 2012