Professor: Marcel Brousseau
4 credits
This course addresses the relationship between narrative and cartography. Taking a comparative perspective on this topic, we will complementarily analyze: 1) the inherent spatial logics and place-basis of storytelling, or the ways in which stories are maps, 2) the narrative potentiality and processual nature of the map, or the ways in which maps are stories. In order to address these issues, students will engage with numerous modes and media of narrative mapping, including itinerary and network maps; Apache oral storytelling; critical cartography by Potawatomi geographer Margaret Pearce; cartographic cinema and "cinemapping"; GIS and web-based map texts; and literary texts from multiple genres, including drama, crónica, and poetry. Students will learn narrative and cartographic terminology and theory, and will engage in an extensive research project in which they practice and analyze their own narrative cartography through digital and/or analog means.