This class explores how East Asian cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare engage multiple senses to articulate women’s experiences and amplify women’s voices within other spaces. By combining sensory analysis with a gendered lens, this study examines how the selected films employ auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory cues to represent female characters’ gendered melancholia, desires, and agency. As the focus shifts from mere visibility, the multisensory emerges as the mechanism through which the other space becomes experientially distinct, shaping the female characters’ lived experiences. Therefore, heterotopia provides the overarching theoretical framework, highlighting how other spaces in the films—whether natural landscapes, palaces, schools, or spaces of solitude—allow women to explore, negotiate, and reflect on their identities beyond socially prescribed roles.

This class will introduce participants to trick training and recreational sports that you can do with your dog—scentwork, barn hunt, tracking and others that will keep both you and your dog engaged!