Great class taught by Arata who is super nice and relaxed and also currently head of the english department. It is an upper level english class so there is a good amount of reading, but definitely not a lot by department standards. All the books are current and interesting, many of which I wouldn't have minded reading on my own time. Every other week you have to do a blog post on the reading, but other than that the only work is a midterm, midterm paper and final paper, all of which seemed to be pretty leniently graded in my experience. Arata also gives out extensions like candy #‎tcf2016‬