In this course, students will analyze visual forms of memoir. Students will read examples of narrative and visual texts–film, graphic memoir, fine art, photography, memorial monuments, and vlogs-to examine how narrative memoir may encode non-verbal expressions of memory; how non-verbal expressions of memory may compensate for, complement, and even confound the grammar and tense of lineal narration; and how visual expression of memory shares what is un-shareable in verbal narrative memoir: re-enactment of trauma; ontological alienation and historical testimony; universal and personal manifestations of identity; and fragmentation, integration, and disintegration of the self. Students will apply critical theory from a variety of perspectives including literary and culture studies; film studies; historiography; psychoanalysis; rhetoric; linguistics and translation theory; and gender and sexually studies.