DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH COURSE PROSPECTUS FOR (AS OF 4/12/18)

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1 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH COURSE PROSPECTUS FOR (AS OF 4/12/18) THE RENUMBERING GRID FROM IS AVAILABLE ON THE DEPT. WEBSITE Secondary cross listings (XLIST) are located on the Course Designations page for The Department of English offers a wide variety of courses appropriate for concentrators as well as for others who wish to write, read, and critically assess literatures. Seminars and special topics offerings intensely explore literary-historical fields through the study of theory and literary forms and often intersect with literatures in other fields. SPRING 2019 ENGL 0100 HOW LITERATURE MATTERS ENGL0100Q How Poems See (CRN24759) J Hour (T/Th 1-2:20 pm) Stephen Foley What makes poems and pictures such powerful forms of life? Why do pictures have so much to tell us? How do we see things in words? How do graphic images, optical images, verbal images, and mental images together constitute ways of understanding the world? Looking at poems and images from Giotto and Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Dickinson and Turner through such modern poets and painters as Stevens, Ashberry, Warhol and Heijinian, we will study sensory and symbolic images, the uses and dangers of likeness, and the baffling confluence of concrete and abstract, literal and figurative, body and mind, matter and spirit. All ENGL 0100s will be temp capped at 100 with reserved seating/registration as follows: For the SPRING term: semester-level 02/04 = 25 each; and 01/03 = 5 each Yielding: 60 total (40 remaining spots would be for upperlevels: seniors/juniors since they are first up on the staggered registration system). ENGL0100T The Simple Art of Murder (CRN24756) C Hour (MWF 10-10:50 am) Deak Nabers A survey of the history of criminal enterprise in American literature. Authors to be considered include Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Twain, Chandler, Wright, Petry, Highsmith, Millar, Harris, and Mosley. All ENGL 0100s will be temp capped at 100 with reserved seating/registration as follows: For the SPRING term: semester-level 02/04 = 25 each; and 01/03 = 5 each Yielding: 60 total (40 remaining spots would be for upperlevels: seniors/juniors since they are first up on the staggered registration system) ENGL0100W Literature Reformatted (CRN25663) D Hour (MWF 11-11:50 am) Jim Egan We ll put literary works produced for digital environments (novels on Twitter, cominatory poetry, collaborative fiction on chat forums) in conversation with works of literature produced in traditional forms. Do these new forms offer empowering extensions of the literary, or do they threaten the very forms of literature from which we can profit the most? All ENGL 0100s will be temp capped at 100 with reserved seating/registration as follows: For the SPRING term: semester-level 02/04 = 25 each; and 01/03 = 5 each Yielding: 60 total (40 remaining spots would be for upperlevels: seniors/juniors since they are first up on the staggered registration system) English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 1 of 15

2 ENGL 0150 FIRST-YEAR SEMINARS ENGL0150W Literature and the Visual Arts (CRN24405) H Hour (T/Th 9-10:20 am) Paul Armstrong How do words and images represent? Are the processes by which literature and the visual arts render the world similar or different? Is reading a novel or a poem more like or unlike viewing a painting, a sculpture, or a film? This seminar will analyze important theoretical statements about these questions as well as selected literary and visual examples. Limited to 19 first-year students. FYS ENGL 0200 SEMINARS IN WRITING, LITERATURES, AND CULTURES Offers students a focused experience with reading and writing on a literary or cultural topic. Requires pages of finished critical prose dealing with the literary, cultural, and theoretical problems raised. Course goal is to improve students ability to perform close reading and textual analysis. Enrollment limited to 17. ENGL0200C Visionaries, Dreamers, and Dissidents: Imagining Other Worlds (CRN25665) C Hour (MWF 10-10:50 am) Ilan Ben-Meir To change the world, you must first be able to imagine an alternative. This class will explore works by radical thinkers, activists, and artists from the last two centuries who dared to do just that from communists to (oc)cultists, Soviet sci-fi to the Syrian resistance. Authors/directors include: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Malcom X, Alinsky, Lynch, Gibson, hooks, Vertov, Haraway, Tsutsui. Enrollment limited to 17. WRIT ENGL0200D Women of Color, Migration and Diaspora in America (CRN25667) D Hour (MWF 11-11:50 am) Lubabah Chowdhury What does it mean to be an immigrant to a country founded on settler colonialism and slavery? Starting with indigenous women s literature and moving on to Black, Asian and Latinx diasporas, this course will tend to the similarities and stark differences of women of color s lived experiences in American literature. Authors include Louise Erdrich, Bharati Mukherjee, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Enrollment limited to 17. WRIT DIAP ENGL0200E (Victorian) Flesh (CRN25666) E Hour (MWF 12-12:50 pm) Soomin Kim From the Victorians we expect genteel courtesies and hushed gestures but in the raw underbelly of the era lies the image of the grotesque body. This course dissects the flesh found in the Victorian crypts, miry rivers, and sullied sheets that also survives in our modern cultural consciousness. Texts/films include: Dickens, Poe, Wilde; Batman: Gothic; Sweeney Todd, The Fly. Enrollment limited to 17. WRIT ENGL0200F How We Became Machines (CRN25751) F Hour (MWF 1-1:50 pm) Nicholas Pisanelli Do we create machines in our image, or are we their mere prototypes? Through a series of encounters with novels, films, poems, and manifestos, this class will examine the ways technology might transform (or destroy) our world, bodies, and thought. Works by: Melville, Shelley, Marx, Kafka, Beckett, Simondon, Deleuze. Films: Ex Machina, Metropolis, Ghost in the Shell. Enrollment limited to 17. WRIT English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 2 of 15

3 ENGL0200G Plague Art, from the Black Death to AIDS (CRN25794) G Hour (MWF 2-2:50 pm) Hilary Rasch Plague art disrupts notions of the self as a contained body. It prompts us to notice our connections with each other and with non-human materials, and asks us to examine how trauma can be inherited and caught. We will consider works emerging from contexts of the Black Plague, cancer, HIV/AIDS, and zombie apocalypse. Authors include Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Camus, Lorde, Whitehead. Enrollment limited to 17. WRIT ENGL0200H The Last Eighteen Years: Literature and Conflict in the 21st Century (CRN25752) H Hour (T/Th 9-10:20 am) Urszula Rutkowska This course will examine contemporary fiction alongside research being done in political science and economics, hoping to establish productive points of intersection. Topics like the Iraq War, mass incarceration, and the 2008 financial crisis will be discussed alongside Hamid s Reluctant Fundamentalist, Beatty s The Sellout, Smith s Swing Time, and Beyoncé s Lemonade. Supplementary reading will likely include writing by Coates, Piketty, and Arendt. Enrollment limited to 17. WRIT ENGL0200J Stuck in the Suburbs: A Poetics of Everyday Life (CRN25753) B Hour (MWF 9-9:50 am) Emily Simon Suburbia is where nothing happens: a landscape that cultivates boredom and indulges angst. But it is also a site of repressed horrors, where our deepest anxieties come home to roost. This course examines architecture, tone, temporality, race, and gender in the literature and films of the suburbs. Texts include Eugenides, Perrotta, Lahiri; Blue Velvet, The Stepford Wives, American Beauty. Enrollment limited to 17. WRIT ENGL0300 INTRODUCTORY GENERAL TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LITERATURES These introductory general topics courses are designed to give students a coherent sense of the literary history and the major critical developments during a substantial portion of the period covered by the department s Area I research field: Medieval and Early Modern Literatures. Individual sections under this rubric cannot be repeated for credit. Enrollment limited to 30. ENGL0300F Beowulf to Aphra Behn: The Earliest British Literatures (CRN24406) MDVL0300F K Hour (T/Th 2:30-3:50 pm) Elizabeth Bryan Major texts and a few surprises from literatures composed in Old English, Old Irish, Anglo-Norman, Middle English, and Early Modern English. We will read texts in their historical and cultural contexts. Texts include anonymously authored narratives like Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, selected Canterbury Tales by Chaucer, and texts by Sir Thomas Malory, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Aphra Behn. Enrollment limited to 30. ENGL 0310 INTRODUCTORY SPECIAL TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LITERATURES English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 3 of 15

4 ENGL 0500 INTRODUCTORY GENERAL TOPICS IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE RISE OF NATIONAL LITERATURES These introductory general topics courses are designed to give students a coherent sense of the literary history and the major critical developments during a substantial portion of the period covered by the department s Area II research field: Enlightenment and the Rise of National Literatures. Individual sections under this rubric cannot be repeated for credit. Enrollment limited to 30. ENGL 0510 INTRODUCTORY SPECIAL TOPICS IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE RISE OF NATIONAL LITERATURES ENGL0510G New Worlds, New Subjects: American Fiction at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (CRN25662) I Hour (T/Th 10:30-11:50 am) Stuart Burrows In 1900, the historian Henry Adams declared, Americans lived in a world so radically transformed that the new American must be a sort of God compared with any former creation of nature. This new world had many progenitors: Darwin s theory of evolution; Nietzsche s theory of the will; Freud s theory of the unconscious; the rise of the mass media; the industrial production line; the triumph of consumerism; mass immigration; Jim Crow; the New Woman. This class reads works of fiction from the turn-of-the-century in the context of these transformations. Writers include Freud, Nietzsche, Stephen Crane, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. ENGL0511H Late Romantics (CRN24392) F Hour (MWF 1-1:50 pm) Jacques Khalip An introduction to the varied work of canonical and non-canonical writers often described as British secondgeneration or late Romantics: Keats, the Shelleys, Byron, Clare, de Quincey, Hemans, Austen. We will explore what lateness constitutes for these authors as a political, aesthetic, and ethical category, and consider how it informs the kind of distinctly "Romantic" work that characterizes their writings. Particular emphasis on close readings of poetry and theoretical texts, as well as excursions into late nineteenth-century authors. ENGL 0700 INTRODUCTORY GENERAL TOPICS IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURES These introductory general topics courses are designed to give students a coherent sense of the literary history and the major critical developments during a substantial portion of the period covered by the department s Area III research field: Modern and Contemporary Literatures. Individual sections under this rubric cannot be repeated for credit. Enrollment limited to 30. ENGL0700R Modernist Cities (CRN25525) I Hour (T/Th 10:30-11:50 am) Tamar Katz In the early twentieth century, modernist writers headed for New York, Paris, London and other cities, and based their literary experiments on forms of metropolitan life. We will discuss chance encounters, cosmopolitan and underground nightlife, solitary wandering, and bohemian communities. Writers may include Barnes, Dos Passos, Eliot, Hemingway, Hughes, Larsen, Joyce, McKay, Rhys, Woolf. Enrollment limited to English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 4 of 15

5 ENGL 0710 INTRODUCTORY SPECIAL TOPICS IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURES ENGL0710R Poetry and Science (CRN25668) H Hour (T/Th 9-10:20 am) Ada Smailbegovic This course will explore the relationship between the observational procedures and modes of composition employed by twentieth and twenty-first century poets who have worked in more conceptual or avant-garde traditions and the practices of description and experimentation that have emerged out of history of science. Readings will range from Gertrude Stein s poetic taxonomies to recent work in critical science studies. ENGL0710W Readings in Black and Queer (CRN25664) I Hour (T/Th 10:30-11:50 am) TBA This course will survey works that engage the intersection of black and queer, especially from 1970 onward. We will use the central idioms of queer of color critique to think about performativity, homophobia, the erotic, and gender normativity; and will use this thinking to read literary representations in various novels, poems, nonfiction essays, plays, and films. DIAP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NONFICTION WRITING INTRODUCTORY ENGL 0900 (formerly 0110) CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY An introduction to university-level writing. Students produce and revise multiple drafts of essays, practice essential skills of paragraph organization, and develop techniques of critical analysis and research. Readings from a wide range of texts in literature, the media, and academic disciplines. Assignments move from personal response papers to formal academic essays. Spring section 01 is reserved for first-year students. Enrollment limited to 17. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. ENGL0900 S01 (section reserved for first-year students) CRN24764 E Hour (MWF 12-12:50 pm) Robert Ward In its various forms, the essay allows scholars to put forward ideas and arguments, to shift ways of seeing and understanding, and to contribute to ongoing intellectual debate. This course offers an introduction to the style and purpose of writing and gives you the opportunity to work on three essay forms. You will read and discuss an eclectic range of personal and academic essays and participate in workshops, critical reviews, and symposia. You will develop an understanding of the techniques of scholarly work and acquire academic skills that will enable you to engage successfully with the challenges and opportunities of studying at Brown. Enrollment limited to English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 5 of 15

6 ENGL0900 S02 CRN24765 C Hour (MWF 10-10:50 am) TBA ENGL0900 S03 CRN24766 F Hour (MWF 1-1:50 pm) TBA ENGL0900 S04 CRN24767 AB Hour (Mon/Wed only 8:30-9:50 am) TBA ENGL 0930 (formerly 0180) INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE NONFICTION Designed to familiarize students with the techniques and narrative structures of creative nonfiction. Reading and writing focus on literary journalism, personal essays, memoir, science writing, travel writing, and other related subgenres. May serve as preparation for ENGL Writing sample may be required. Spring sections 01 and 03 are reserved for first-year and sophomores only. Enrollment limited. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. ENGL0930 S01 (section reserved for first-year and sophomore students) CRN25670 E Hour (MWF 12-12:50 am) TBA ENGL0930 S03 (section reserved for first-year and sophomore students) CRN25671 C Hour (MWF 10-10:50 am) Robert Ward NONFICTION WRITING INTERMEDIATE ENGL 1030 (formerly 0130) CRITICAL READING AND WRITING II: THE RESEARCH ESSAY For the confident writer. Offers students who have mastered the fundamentals of the critical essay an opportunity to acquire the skills to write a research essay, including formulation of a research problem, use of primary evidence, and techniques of documentation. Topics are drawn from literature, history, the social sciences, the arts, and the sciences. Enrollment limited to 17. No pre-requisites. Writing sample may be required. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. ENGL1030C Writing Science CRN24407 H Hour (T/Th 9-10:20 am) Carol DeBoer-Langworthy This course explores how science, as an academic way of thinking and a method, affects our critical thinking and expression of culture. Readings examine the various dialects of scientific discourse. Students write three major research essays on self-selected scientific topics from both within and outside their fields of study. Enrollment limited to 17. Writing sample may be required. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 6 of 15

7 ENGL1030G Backstory CRN25523 G Hour (MWF 2-2:50 pm) Ed Hardy Everything has a backstory every event, every object, every idea. In this workshop-based course we will explore the archives at Brown and RISD to write three research essays for general audiences. You can expect readings, looking at how authors like David Foster Wallace, John McPhee and Eula Biss structure their pieces, workshops and in-class writing prompts to get you going. Enrollment limited to 17. Writing sample may be required. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. ENGL 1050 INTERMEDIATE CREATIVE NONFICTION For the more experienced writer. Offers students who show a facility with language and who have mastered the fundamentals of creative nonfiction an opportunity to write more sophisticated narrative essays. Sections focus on specific themes (e.g., medicine or sports; subgenres of the form) or on developing and refining specific techniques of creative nonfiction (such as narrative). Enrollment limited to 17. No pre-requisites. Writing sample required. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. ENGL1050A Narrative CRN24408 B Hour (MWF 9-9:50 am) Ed Hardy This course offers a broad exploration of the many kinds of essays you can write in creative nonfiction. We will be looking at how authors structure their pieces and the range of narrative techniques they often use. You can expect workshops, in-class prompts and readings by Jamaica Kincaid, John McPhee, David Foster Wallace, Annie Dillard, David Sedaris and others. Enrollment limited to 17. Writing sample required. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. ENGL1050E Sportswriting CRN24409 J Hour (T/Th 1-1:20 pm) Jonathan Readey This course introduces students to the practice of sportswriting, including writing sports news, features, and columns. Readings will include works by Rick Reilly, Bill Simmons, Frank Deford, Karen Russell, Allison Glock, Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, W.C. Heinz, and others. Students will develop skills in analyzing, researching, writing, revising, and workshopping in the genre. Enrollment limited to 17. Writing sample required. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. ENGL1050H Journalistic Writing (section reserved for first-year and sophomore students) CRN24410 AB Hour (Mon/Wed only 8:30-9:50 am) TBD This course teaches students how to report and write hard news and feature stories for newspapers and online. Students learn to gather and organize material, develop interviewing techniques, and hone their writing skills all while facing the deadlines of journalism. The first half of the semester focuses on hard" news: issues, crime, government, and courts. The second half is devoted to features, profiles, and narrative story telling. Writing sample required. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed in first week of classes. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 7 of 15

8 NONFICTION WRITING ADVANCED ENGL 1140 CRITICAL READING AND WRITING III: TOPICS IN LITERARY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM For advanced writers. Situates rhetorical theory and practice in contexts of cutting-edge literary, cultural, and interdisciplinary criticism, public discourse, and public intellectual debate. Individual sections explore one or more of the following subgenres: rhetorical criticism, hybrid personal-critical essays, case studies, legal argument and advocacy, documentary, satire, commentaries, and review essays. A writing sample will be administered on the first day of class. Class list will be reduced to 12 after writing samples are reviewed. Prerequisite: ENGL 0930, 1030, or Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. ENGL1140A Intellectual Pleasures: Reading/Writing the Literary Text CRN24393 D Hour (MWF 11-11:50 am) Lawrence Stanley Riffing on the generative tensions between intellectual rigor and aesthetic pleasure, this seminar will examine (through the theoretical framework of cognitive poetics) a richly diverse range of literary texts, from Susan Howe to Beowulf. Our objective: to develop an awareness of language that will reshape how we read and how we write literary texts in various genres. Writing centered. Enrollment limited to 12. Prerequisite: ENGL 0930 or any 1000-level nonfiction writing course. S/NC. ENGL1140B The Public Intellectual CRN24411 M Hour (Monday 3-5:30 pm) Catherine Imbriglio This course offers advanced writers an opportunity to practice sophisticated, engaged critical writing in academic, personal, and civic modes. Emphasis will be on writing "public" essays (general audience essays that do intellectual work or academic essays that address public topics), ideally in fluid, "hybrid," audienceappropriate forms. Areas of investigation will include (but are not limited to) the review essay, the cultural analysis essay, literary documentary, and the extended persuasive/analytic essay. It will include some brief "touchstone" investigations into rhetorical theory, with the aim of helping to broaden our concepts of audience, analyze the constitutive and imaginative effects of language, increase the real-world effectiveness of our own language practices, and situate our writing within current political, cultural, aesthetic and intellectual debates. Students must have sophomore standing or higher in order to be admitted to the class. A writing sample will be administered on the first day of class. Prerequisite: ENGL 0930, 1030, or Class list will be reduced to 12 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. ENGL 1160 SPECIAL TOPICS IN JOURNALISM For advanced writers. Class lists will be reduced after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Enrollment limited to 12 or 17, depending on section. S/NC. ENGL1160A Advanced Feature Writing CRN24412 P Hour (Tuesday 4-6:30 pm) Tracy Breton For the advanced writer. Nothing provides people with more pleasure than a good read. This journalism seminar helps students develop the skills to spin feature stories that newspaper and magazine readers will stay with from beginning to end, both for print and on-line publications. Students will spend substantial time off English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 8 of 15

9 campus conducting in-depth interviews and sharpening their investigative reporting skills. The art of narrative storytelling will be emphasized. Prerequisite: ENGL1050G or 1050H, or published clips submitted before the first week of classes. Class list reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. ENGL 1180 SPECIAL TOPICS IN CREATIVE NONFICTION For the advanced writer. A writing sample will be administered on the first day of class. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed. Prerequisite: ENGL 0930 or any 1000-level nonfiction writing course. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. ENGL1180C Writing with Food CRN24768 J Hour (T/Th 1-2:20 pm) Carol DeBoer-Langworthy This course examines writing about food and how writing affects food and food culture. We shall explore the relationship of food to the pen through reading classic texts, writing in and out of class, guest lectures, and touring culinary archives. The goal is to polish personal voice in menus, recipes, memoir, history, reportage, and the lyric essay. Prerequisite: ENGL 0930 or any 1000-level nonfiction writing course. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. ENGL1180R Travel Writing: Personal and Cultural Narratives CRN24770 Q Hour (Thursday 4-6:30 pm) Jonathan Readey For the advanced writer. Helps students build skills in the growing genre of travel writing, including techniques for reading, composing, and revising travel pieces. Students will read the best contemporary travel writing in order to develop their own writing in areas like narrative, setting, characters, and voice. The course will feature interactive discussions, instructor conferences, and workshops. Prerequisite: ENGL 0930 or any 1000-level nonfiction writing course. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. ENGL 1190 SPECIAL TOPICS IN NONFICTION WRITING For the advanced writer. A writing sample will be administered on the first day of class. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed. Prerequisite: ENGL 0930 or any 1000-level nonfiction writing course. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. ENGL1190S Poetics of Narrative CRN24771 K Hour (T/Th 2:30-3:50 pm) Lawrence Stanley Narratives are everywhere, simply there, like life itself, Roland Barthes says; we structure our experiences with narratives that we either infer or create. We will read different literary genres to see how narratives work and what makes them poetic and read theoretical texts to understand narrative function and performance. We will write experimentally to experience how stories are constructed. Pre-requisites: ENGL 0900, 0930, or any level nonfiction writing course. S/NC English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 9 of 15

10 ENGL 1994 SENIOR HONORS THESIS IN NONFICTION WRITING Fall (CRN16987) Spring (CRN24404) Independent research and writing under the direction of the student s Nonfiction Writing honors supervisor. Permission should be obtained from the Honors Advisor for Nonfiction Writing. Open to senior English concentrators pursuing Honors in Nonfiction Writing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For Undergraduates and Graduates ENGL 1310 SPECIAL TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LITERATURES ENGL1311E History of the English Language (CRN24772) MDVL1311E E Hour (MWF 12-12:50 pm) Lesley Jacobs Provides an introduction to the study of the English language from a historical, linguistic, and philological perspective, and an overview of the study of the "Englishes" that populate our globe. While providing students with the ability to identify and explain language change through historical periods, also examines language as a social and political phenomenon. ENGL1360 SEMINARS IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LITERATURES ENGL1361J Seminar in Old Norse-Icelandic Language and Literature (CRN24773) MDVL1361J G Hour (MWF 2-2:50 pm) Lesley Jacobs This course offers a thorough introduction to a language both closely related to Old English and in which survives one of the richest medieval literatures. We will start with an extensive coverage of grammar and syntax before reading short excerpts from sagas including Egil s Saga and Grettir s Saga. Enrollment limited to 20; knowledge of Old English, Latin, or German advised. ENGL1361L Milton (CRN24394) REMS1361L N Hour (Wednesday 3-5:30 pm) Richard Rambuss A recent book provocatively asked: Is Milton better than Shakespeare? Whatever one makes of that question, Milton wrote extraordinary poems in the principal modes of Renaissance verse. This course studies in detail many of those works, including the culturally monumental Paradise Lost. We ll also take into account the shape of Milton s authorial career and his always interesting ways with genre. Enrollment limited to 20 juniors and seniors. ENGL 1510 SPECIAL TOPICS IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE RISE OF NATIONAL LITERATURES English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 10 of 15

11 ENGL 1560 SEMINARS IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE RISE OF NATIONAL LITERATURES ENGL1561M American Literature and the Corporation (CRN24775) M Hour (Monday 3-5:30 pm) Deak Nabers A study of the development of the American novel from the Civil War to the present in light of the emergence of the corporation as the principal unit of economic enterprise in the United States. We will survey corporate theory from Lippmann to Collins, and use it to frame the novel's development from realism through modernism into postmodernism. Corporate theorists to be considered: Lippmann, Dewey, Berle, Drucker, Mayo, Demming, Friedman, Coase. Novelists to be considered: Twain, Dreiser, Wharton, Stein, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Wright, Ellison, McCullers, Reed, Gaddis, Morrison. Enrollment limited to 20. ENGL1561Y In Excess: Rossetti, Hopkins, Wilde (CRN24395) M Hour (Monday 3-5:30 pm) Jacques Khalip This seminar will be a focused close reading of three late Victorian writers whose works might be described as radically excessive insofar as they transgress and push beyond the limits of social, ethical, aesthetic, sexual, and political conventions. What does it mean to describe a text as excessive, and how can excess be considered as a constitutive part of its form? We will concentrate on poetry, plays, and theoretical texts, putting our authors into conversation with contemporary thinkers of excess. Enrollment limited to 20. ENGL 1710 SPECIAL TOPICS IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURES ENGL1710J Modern African Literature (CRN24754) F Hour (MWF 1-1:50 pm) Olakunle George This course considers themes, antecedents, and contexts of modern African literature and related forms. Our readings will include fiction in English or in translation, traditional oral forms like panegyric and festival poetry, and some films. We will examine how these diverse materials explore the interplay of ethnicity, nationality, and race. We will also address the issue of "tradition" in contexts where nationalisms of various stripes are becoming stronger, even as the world becomes more interconnected through trade, immigration, and digital technology. Authors will include Achebe, Adichie, Dangarembga, Kourouma, Ngugi, Salih, Soyinka, Wicomb. Films by Kouyaté, Loreau, Sembène. DIAP ENGL1711K The Politics of Perspective: Post-War British Fiction I Hour (T/Th 10:30-11:50 am) Timothy Bewes Offers an overview of British fiction from the last 50 years in order to consider how Englishness, as (i) a set of images and (ii) a mode of looking, has changed. The course covers 3 distinct periods (post-war period, Thatcherism, the New Labour epoch and beyond) and, is intended as an introduction to theories of culture, ideology and literary analysis and to some of the most important British writers of the last fifty years. DIAP English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 11 of 15

12 ENGL 1760 SEMINARS IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURES ENGL1760J Reading Gravity s Rainbow (CRN24396) N Hour (Wednesday 3-5:30 pm) Stuart Burrows An in-depth study of perhaps the most important American novel of the twentieth century. Reading will include Pynchon's early novel The Crying of Lot 49, stories by Borges, Kafka, and Nabokov, and a range of historical, texts and films alluded to in Gravity s Rainbow, from the sermons of Jonathan Edwards to the poetry of Rilke to The Wizard of Oz. Enrollment limited to 20 seniors. ENGL1760Q James Joyce and the Modern Novel (CRN24776) J Hour (T/Th 1-2:20 pm) Paul Armstrong One measure of James Joyce's achievement as a writer is his influence (as an inspiration, an antagonist, or a competitor) on novelists who came after him. Our primary concern will be with Joyce's formal innovations: How did his audacious narrative experiments transform the novel as a genre? Do his stylistic games break with the realistic tradition or expose its linguistic and epistemological workings? In addition to Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, and Ulysses, we will read novels by Woolf, Faulkner, Beckett, and Nabokov. Enrollment limited to 20. Not open to first-year students. Instructor permission required. ENGL1761Q W. G. Sebald and Some Interlocutors (CRN24777) MCM1503D K Hour (T/Th 2:30-3:50 pm) Timothy Bewes The works of W. G. Sebald have received a huge amount of critical attention since his death in 2001, particularly from critics interested in the question of the ethics of literature after Auschwitz. But what is Sebald s literary heritage, and who are his interlocutors? What internal and external connections do his works establish? Besides Sebald s works, readings will include Stendhal, Kafka, Walser, Borges, Bergson, Resnais, Lanzmann. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. Enrollment limited to 20. Not open to first-year students. ENGL 1900 SPECIAL TOPICS IN CRITICAL AND CULTURAL THEORY ENGL1900Y Medieval Manuscript Studies : Paleography, Codicology, and Interpretation (CRN24778) MDVL1900Y N Hour (Wednesday 3-5:30 pm) Elizabeth Bryan How do you read a medieval manuscript? This course teaches hands-on methodologies for deciphering the material text, including palaeography (history of scripts) and codicology (archeology of the book); contemporary models of interpreting scribal texts, including editorial theory and analysis of readers' reception; and medieval concepts of textuality and interpretation, including medieval theories of authorship and the arts of memory. Prior course work in Middle English or Latin or other medieval language recommended. Not open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 20. Instructor permission required English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 12 of 15

13 ENGL1901H The 60s: Film Countercultures (CRN24397) MCM1505U Q Hour (T/Th 4-6:30 pm) Richard Rambuss On representative late-60s counterculture movies concerned with antiauthoritarianism; hippy Bohemianism; social and sexual experimentation; dropping out; and psychedelia. Bookended by rock music festival documentaries (Monterey Pop; Gimme Shelter), the seminar is mostly concerned with feature films (The Graduate; Bonnie and Clyde; 2001; Midnight Cowboy; Easy Rider; Carnal Knowledge). It will also consider some underground art cinema (Kenneth Anger; Andy Warhol). Enrollment limited to 20 juniors and seniors. Instructor permission required. ENGL 1950 SENIOR SEMINAR This rubric will include seminars designed specifically for senior-year English concentrators. They will focus on a range of theoretical, thematic, and generic topics that will provide advance English undergraduates to explore more profoundly or more synthetically fundamental issues connected to the study of literature in general and literature in English in particular. Although English Honors seniors will be allowed to register for them, these courses will provide a "capstone" experience for all English concentrators during their senior year. Enrollment limited to 20 seniors. ENGL1950J Reading Literature in a Digital World (CRN24398) B Hour (MWF 9-9:50 am) Jim Egan We will explore the implications of using digital technologies to read, study, and write literature. Does the digital pose a threat and/or an opportunity to the literary? Has the literary become obsolete in a video-driven media environment? And what place does the literary occupy in a digital world? Enrollment limited to 20 senior English concentrators. ENGL 1992 SENIOR HONORS THESIS IN ENGLISH Fall (CRN16986) Spring (CRN24403) Independent research and writing under the direction of a faculty member. Open to senior English concentrators pursuing Honors in English. Permission should be obtained from the Honors Advisor in English. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Primarily for Graduate Students ENGL 2360 GRADUATE SEMINARS IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LITERATURES ENGL 2380 GRADUATE INDEPENDENT STUDY IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LITERATURES Fall and Spring. Section numbers and CRNs vary by instructor. May be repeated for credit. Instructor s permission required English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 13 of 15

14 ENGL 2560 GRADUATE SEMINARS IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE RISE OF NATIONAL LITERATURES ENGL2561H American Literature Without Borders (CRN24399) M Hour (Monday 3-5:30 pm) Philip Gould Recent theoretical and critical approaches to colonial and 19th-c. American literature: transatlantic, Caribbean, hemispheric; borderlands; imperial, colonial and postcolonial cultural formations; the Black Atlantic; diasporic and migration studies. Enrollment limited to 15 graduate students. ENGL 2580 GRADUATE INDEPENDENT STUDY IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE RISE OF NATIONAL LITERATURES Fall and Spring. Section numbers and CRNs vary by instructor. May be repeated for credit. Instructor s permission required. ENGL 2760 GRADUATE SEMINARS IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURES ENGL2761N Theories of Affect: Poetics of Expression Through and Beyond Identity (CRN24760) HMAN2400K Tuesday 12-2:30 pm Daniel Kim/Ada Smailbegovic Drawing on the tools of affect theory and critical race studies this collaborative seminar examines how poetic works can simultaneously be engaged in audacious formal and conceptual experimentation while remaining committed to imagining how subjectivity might be experienced both through and beyond structures of gender, race and sexuality. Readings include: Theresa Cha, Myung Mi Kim, Fred Moten, Claudia Rankine, Sara Ahmed, Gilles Deleuze, Baruch Spinoza. Enrollment limited to 15 graduate students. ENGL2761O Postcolonial Theory (CRN24400) N Hour (Wednesday 3-5:30 pm) Leela Gandhi In this introduction to postcolonial theory we will consider key Western sources (Hegel, Marx, Lacan, Levi Strauss, Emmanuel Levinas); anticolonial manifestos (Gandhi, Fanon, Césaire, Memmi); political and ethical practices (civil disobedience, armed struggle, friendship). In addition to canonical critics (Said, Bhabha, Spivak), the course will review new interests in the field (transnationalism, non-western imperialisms, the environmental turn). Enrollment limited to 15 graduate students. ENGL2761P Modernism and Theories of Space (CRN24401) Q Hour (Thursday 4-6:30 pm) Tamar Katz This course analyzes literary modernism as it intersects with theories of space both historical and formal. Topics include: colonialism and global spaces, Fordist production, gendered public/private divides, as well as networks, underworlds, spatial form, and models of wandering. Readings include work by Lefebvre, Harvey, Latour, Frank, Larsen, Joyce, McKay, Woolf. Enrollment limited to 15 graduate students English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 14 of 15

15 ENGL2761Q Blackness and Being: Studies in Black Literary and Cultural Criticism (CRN24752) Q Hour (Thursday 4-6:30 pm) TBA Through some recent critical readings, we will think about the enduring problem of blackness its representational, aesthetic, and/or philosophical (ontological, epistemological, ethical) challenges. Our study will think through feminist and queer studies, as well as through diaspora and American and ethnic studies. We will also think historically about what motivates various turns to thinking about blackness and being. Enrollment limited to 15 graduate students. ENGL 2780 GRADUATE INDEPENDENT STUDY IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURES Fall and Spring. Section numbers and CRNs vary by instructor. May be repeated for credit. Instructor s permission required. ENGL 2900 ADVANCED TOPICS IN CRITICAL AND CULTURAL THEORY ENGL2900N Ethical Turns in Psychoanalysis and Literature (CRN24402) MCM2110S O Hour (Friday 3-5:30 pm) Ravit Reichman This course examines ethics, broadly conceived, as the place where literature and psychoanalysis intersect or coexist in tense or collaborative relation. We will consider ethics at sites or moments of transition as turns, upheavals, or ordinary acts that bring into view notions of responsibility, conviction, obligation, knowledge, ignorance, and complicity. Readings by Barthes, Benjamin, Fanon, Arendt, Freud, Lacan, Winnicott, Klein, Butler. Enrollment limited to 15 graduate students. ENGL 2970 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION PREPARATION (No Course Credit) Fall (CRN15126) and Spring (CRN24070). For graduate students who have met the tuition requirement and are paying the registration fee to continue active enrollment while preparing for a preliminary examination. ENGL 2990 THESIS PREPARATION (No Course Credit) Fall (CRN15127) and Spring (CRN24071). For graduate students who have met the tuition requirement and are paying the registration fee to continue active enrollment while preparing a thesis English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 15 of 15