Post-Apocalyptic Culture

Kevin Pelletier, associate professor of English, is teaching a course on post-apocalyptic literature this semester. He offers the following:

"While some might think of apocalyptic literature as a quirky sub-genre, it has enabled my students and I to have really amazing conversations about issues we are presently confronting with COVID-19."

"The best examples of apocalyptic literature and film use the apocalypse as a device to highlight conditions that characterize "normal," everyday life. In other words, these works of literature and film are not really about some specific catastrophe, but how catastrophe allows us to think more carefully about human existence itself."

Contact urnews2use@richmond.edu to connect with Pelletier.