This course investigates the aesthetics of self-presentation—the processes by which human beings design and display particular conceptions
of themselves. It approaches the subject from a multi-medial and transhistorical perspective, centering on self-oriented artworks (and other
expressive artifacts) that range from lyric poems to portrait paintings, fashion designs to Hollywood biopics, Twitter threads to Instagram selfies.
Students will be expected both to analyze how and to what end these primary sources manipulate the resources of self-presentation and to try
their hands at using those resources for artful self-presentations of their own.