This course explores the relationship between geography and literature, focusing on the study and creation of literary maps, the representation of maps in fiction, mapping practices, and spatial analyses of literary texts.  We will explore the new understandings of space and geography that have emerged from literary attempts to map contemporary phenomena such as globalization, mass migration, mega-cities, and climate change.  We will examine what literature has to say about how space is reproduced; how geography and maps can be used as an analytical method for literary texts and their approach to issues such as gender and sexuality, race, equality, new imperialisms and colonialisms and environmentalism.  The course will provide an overview of the scholarship of spatial literary studies read in conjunction with contemporary literary texts.  Students will be responsible for planning and executing their own research projects which may include research essays, GIS- informed projects, the generation of literary maps, and documentary projects involving spatial analyses of the city.