DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH COURSE PROSPECTUS FOR (AS OF 10/5/17)

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1 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH COURSE PROSPECTUS FOR (AS OF 10/5/17) THE RENUMBERING GRID FROM IS AVAILABLE ON THE DEPT. WEBSITE Secondary cross listings (XLIST) may be found on the list of tables 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 2018 ENGL 0100 HOW LITERATURE MATTERS ENGL0100A How To Read A Poem (CRN25137) J Hour (T/Th 102:20 pm) Melinda Rabb It is difficult/ to get the news from poems/ yet men die miserably every day/ for lack/ of what is found there. William Carlos Williams s words begin to articulate this course s focus on the power of poetic language to represent and to give shape to human experience. Designed for concentrators and non-concentrators, the semester s work consists of both conceptual and practical matters conducive to understanding, analyzing, and writing about poems. The reading draws freely on texts from across historical and geographical boundaries, including works by Spenser, Shakespeare, Lanyer, Donne, Keats, Dickinson, Frost, Auden, Whitman, Eliot, cummings, Bishop, and Heaney. ENGL0100F Devils, Demons and Do Gooders (CRN24484) B Hour (MWF 9-9:50 am) Jim Egan Who hasn't struggled with the problem of good and evil? Who hasn't wondered what lurks in the dark recesses of the soul? We will investigate how Milton, Mary Shelley, Melville, Poe, and Hawthorne, among others, grapple with these fundamental questions of judgment. *ADDED* ENGL0100M Writing War (CRN25716) F Hour (MWF 1-1:50 pm) Ravit Reichman Examines the challenges that war poses to representation, and particularly to language and literary expression in the modern era. We will focus primarily on the First and Second World Wars, exploring the specific pressures war puts on novels and poetry, as well as on history, psychology, and ethics. Works by Sassoon, Owen, Hemingway, Woolf, Rebecca West, Graham Greene, Pat Barker, Tim O'Brien, Georges Perec. Students should register for ENGL 0100M S01 and may be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 1 of 16

2 ENGL0100N City Novels (CRN24485) URBN XLIST *TIME CHANGE H Hour (T/Th 9-10:20 am) Tamar Katz This course examines 20th and 21st century novels to consider how these narratives envision the city, its possibilities and limits. How does the city shape how we think, wander, grow up, see and know each other? How does the city divide people? How does the novel imagine ways to bridge those divisions? Readings by Woolf, Chandler, Wright, Cisneros, Smith, Calvino, Adiga, Whitehead. CANCELLED ENGL0100R American Histories, American Novels (CRN24486) D Hour (MWF 11-11:50 am) Daniel Kim How do novels make readers experience such traumatic American historical events as war, slavery, genocide, race riots and other forms of violent civil conflict? What kind of political or ethical perspective on such divisive and explosive events do literary narratives encourage their readers to take? How can novels function as memorials to such events? What forms of redress can come through literature? This course explores these questions by examining a number of important post-1945 works that offer powerful examples of how novels make us think and feel in particularly resonant ways about the histories they depict. DPLL WRIT ENGL 0150 FIRST-YEAR SEMINARS ENGL0150E Love and Friendship (CRN24488) N Hour (Wed 3-5:30 pm) James Kuzner What do we talk about when we talk about love? This course poses this question in various ways. How, for instance, can we tell the difference between love's various forms between love that is friendly and love that is romantic? How do the different forms of love differently shape people? How does love work when it involves sex, or marriage, or children, or divinity? And what must love involve to be called good? Why? Materials will range from Plato and St. Augustine to Leo Bersani and Allen Bloom and will also include popular filmic representations of love. Limited to 20. FYS ENGL0150X Claims of Fiction (CRN24489) H Hour (T/Th 9-10:20 am) Olakunle George This course explores the interplay of tropes of strangeness, contamination, and crisis in a range of novels and shorter fiction, in English or in translation. We will ask why social misfits and outsiders somehow become such fascinating figures in fictional narratives. How do these fictions entice and equip readers to reflect on collective assumptions, values, and practices? Writers will likely include Baldwin, Brontë, Condé, Conrad, Faulkner, Greene, Ishiguro, Lessing, Morrison, Naipaul, Salih. Limited to 20 first-year students. DPLL 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 English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 2 of 16

3 ENGL0200X Unrealism: Science Fiction and Speculative Literature (CRN25411) B Hour (MWF 9-9:50 am) Megan Cunniff What can other worlds and other species tell us about how we see our own? This course will explore issues of gender, sexuality, technology and identity across sci-fi and fantasy literature, in addition to comics, TV and film. Texts will likely include: China Mieville, Ursula LeGuin, Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany; Sandman, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Sense8. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. WRIT ENGL0200Y Graphic Memories: Form and Representation in the Contemporary Graphic Novel (CRN25143) C Hour (MWF 10-10:50 am) Claire Grandy How do graphic novels tell stories whether personal or historical through their visual-literary form? This course critically examines the representation of identity and difference, traumatic memory, and perspectival experience within memoir and documentary genres. May include works by: Alison Bechdel, Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, Shaun Tan, Keiji Nakazawa, and Lynda Barry; Butler, Barthes, and Cathy Caruth. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. WRIT ENGL0200Z Who Are You to Judge? Modernist Fiction and Judgment (CRN25142) D Hour (MWF 11011:50 am) Zachary Krowiak Literature both judges and is judged. It features scenes of judgment, and calls on readers to judge and interpret it. This course examines the ways in which early twentieth-century texts scrutinize ethical assumptions, form verdicts, and interrogate the position from which one judges. Authors: Melville, Kafka, Nabokov, Ford, Hurston, Ishiguro, Wright, Brecht, and Larson. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. WRIT ENGL0201A Discourse/Intercourse: Recognizing Desire in Novels and Film (CRN25683) E Hour (MWF 12-12:50 pm) Rithika Ramamurthy Sexuality and sex are not the same, although they are often mistaken for one another. Focusing on realist fiction and media, psychoanalysis, and Marxist theory, this course investigates novels and films that leave something to be desired. Can art create a space for desire to exist? Works by: Foucault, Freud, Lacan, Althusser, Flaubert, Hardy, Barnes, Kubrick, Lynch, others. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. WRIT ENGL0201B Wrong Girls: Unwelcome, Unnerving and Undesirable Genders (CRN25141) F Hour (MWF 1-1:50 pm) Eleanor Rowe Unpleasing women appear throughout fiction: this course will address novels, films and critical theory from the Victorian to the contemporary which align the nasty, the ugly and the unwelcome with gender. Authors and critics include Eliot, Brontë, James, Ford, Atwood, Tan, Barthes, Butler, hooks and Gilbert & Gubar. Films include Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Rosemary s Baby and Princess Mononoke. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. WRIT ENGL 0310 INTRODUCTORY SPECIAL TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LITERATURES English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 3 of 16

4 ENGL0310A Shakespeare (CRN24490) I Hour (T/Th 10:30-11:50 am) James Kuzner We will read a representative selection of Shakespeare s comedies, tragedies, histories, and romances, considering their historical contexts and their cultural afterlife in terms of belief, doubt, language, feeling, politics, and form. Students should register for ENGL 0310A S01 and may be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class. WRIT 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 ENGL0511B The Nineteenth-Century British Novel (CRN24491) H Hour (T/Th 9-10:20 am) Benjamin Parker A study of major novelists of the period, through the question: How did the novel develop as a form of social understanding? We will be looking at novels as bearers of social values, especially around questions of property, class, marriage, work, bureaucracy and the state, and selfhood. Authors studied: Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Thomas Hardy. 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. ENGL 0710 INTRODUCTORY SPECIAL TOPICS IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURES ENGL0710Q American Literature in the Era of Segregation (CRN24487) I Hour (T/Th 10:30-11:50 am) Rolland Murray This course examines how American literature intersects with the legal, ethical, and racial discourses that defined the system of racial segregation. The class will assess literary works in relation to the discourses employed historically to rationalize segregation. In addition the course will explore the ways that literary style English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 4 of 16

5 and genre became inseparable from the culture of segregation. Authors include Mark Twain, Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison. DPLL CANCELLED ENGL0710S The Eighties: Earnestness to Irony (CRN25140) F Hour (MWF 1-1:50 pm) Ravit Reichman From "White Noise" to "Working Girl," Duran Duran to Public Enemy, this course explores the culture, rhetoric, and politics of the 1980s through literature, film, music, and television. What kind of counterculture, if any, emerges from a decade of conservatism, greed and the AIDS epidemic? What, in short, made the 80s unique and what is the decade's afterimage? Students should register for ENGL 0710S S01 and may be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. Fall sections 02, 03, 04, 06, and 11 are reserved for first-year students. 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) CRN24509 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 17. ENGL0900 S02 CRN24510 AB Hour (Mon/Wed only 8:30-9:50 am) Robert Ward See description for Section 01, above. ENGL0900 S03 CRN24511 F Hour (MWF 1-1:50 pm) Ali Madani An introduction to college-level writing, this course helps students produce and revise multiple drafts of essays, hone skills of organization, and develop techniques of critical analysis and research. Readings from a diverse range of texts in media, literature, and contemporary politics. Assignments progress from personal and narrative response papers to formal academic, research-oriented essays. Enrollment limited to English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 5 of 16

6 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. Fall sections 03 is reserved for first-year students and Fall section 01 and 06 are reserved for first-year and sophomores only. Spring section 03 is reserved for first-year students. Spring sections 04 and 05 are reserved for first-year and sophomores only. Enrollment limited. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. ENGL0930 S01 CRN24988 C Hour (MWF 10-10:50 am) Adam Golaski Our creative nonfiction course will consider what nonfiction means, especially in light of the idea that what is true, i.e. what is not fiction, is entirely subjective. We ll explore several varieties of the creative nonfiction essay memoir, lyric, historical by reading and writing together. Through class discussion, workshops, and one-on-one meetings, we will develop your writing and critical reading, skills ultimately producing a set of essays rendered with your singular voice. May serve as preparation for ENGL1180. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. Writing sample may be required. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. ENGL0930 S02 CRN24989 F Hour (MWF 1-1:50 pm) Adam Golaski See description for Section 01, above. ENGL0930 S03 (section reserved for first-year students) CRN24990 H Hour (T/Th 9-10:20 am) Kate Schapira How can nonfiction also be creative? In this course, we'll look at writing that's inventive rather than invented, examining and imitating the tactics writers use and the risks they take to convey what happened, what's happening, and what they hope or fear will happen. Writing and rewriting (reportage, cultural critique, literary response, opinion, memoir) will form a key part of the course, and students will rework a number of pieces for a final portfolio. Authors considered include, but are not limited to, Antjie Krog, Richard Feynman, M.F.K. Fisher, James Thurber, Naomi Klein, John Lahr. May serve as preparation for ENGL1180. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. Writing sample may be required. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. ENGL0930 S04 (section reserved for first-year and sophomore students) CRN24991 D Hour (MWF 11-11:50 am) Ed Hardy This workshop will explore the range of narrative possibilities available under the umbrella term "creative nonfiction." We'll be looking at questions of structure and technique in a number of subgenres including: the personal essay, literary journalism, travel writing, science writing and memoir. Student work will be discussed in English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 6 of 16

7 both workshops and conferences. At the semester's end students will turn in a portfolio with several polished shorter pieces and one longer essay. May serve as preparation for ENGL1180. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. Writing sample may be required. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. ENGL0930 S05 (section reserved for first-year and sophomore students) CRN24992 B Hour (MWF 9-9:50 am) Elizabeth Rush In this course you will write three creative nonfiction essays in the following genres: memoir, lyric, travelogue. Each of these essays will be uploaded to a course-run website, and will be workshopped according to how the essay appears online. As creative nonfiction, the works you will write in this course are to be connected to actual affairs in the world and they are expected to appear as art, as motivated by something beyond the simple desire to transmit information. While creative nonfiction writers cannot conjure up events they wished had happened but they can create formal structures that allow the reader to gain insight into real events they might not have otherwise had. S/NC. ENGL0930 S06 CRN24993 E Hour (MWF 12-12:50 pm) Elizabeth Rush In this course you will write three creative nonfiction essays in the following genres: memoir, lyric, travelogue. Each of these essays will be uploaded to a course-run website, and will be workshopped according to how the essay appears online. As creative nonfiction, the works you will write in this course are to be connected to actual affairs in the world and they are expected to appear as art, as motivated by something beyond the simple desire to transmit information. While creative nonfiction writers cannot conjure up events they wished had happened but they can create formal structures that allow the reader to gain insight into real events they might not have otherwise had. S/NC. 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. ENGL1030A The Thoughtful Generalist CRN24518 *ONLINE* Elizabeth Taylor This *ONLINE* section of ENGL1030: Critical Reading and Writing II: Research will prepare you for academic and real-world discourse. In Canvas, you will discuss essays demonstrating deep research distilled into engaging intellectual journey. You will research and revise four explanatory, analytical, persuasive essays, using varied sources to explore subjects or issues of your choice. Mandatory peer reviews and conferences ONLINE and in person. Enrollment limited to 17. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC. This course is offered fully online. Students do not need to be on Brown's campus to participate in this course. Learn what it is like to take an online course at Brown and view technical requirements at: English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 7 of 16

8 ENGL1030C Writing Science CRN24502 G Hour (MWF 2-2:50 pm) 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. 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 CRN24503 G Hour (MWF 2-2:50 pm) 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. ENGL1050H Journalistic Writing (section reserved for first-year and sophomore students) CRN24504 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. ENGL1050N Writing for Today s Electronic Media CRN24505 J Hour (T/Th 1-2:20 pm) Jonathan Readey This course introduces students to the practice of reporting for television news, radio, and their online equivalents--online news and podcasts. Exploring the world of communications for contemporary media, the course features hands-on work in writing news, features, and opinion pieces for television, radio, online news, and podcasts. Students will develop skills in analyzing, writing, revising, and workshopping in these media. Enrollment limited to 17. Writing sample required. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 8 of 16

9 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. 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. ENGL1160F Reporting Crime and Justice CRN24500 M Hour (Mon 3-5:30 pm) Tracy Breton Crime and justice stories are people stories. The drama of everyday life is played out every day in courtrooms. This advanced journalism course will get students into the courtrooms, case files and archives of Rhode Island's judicial system and into committee hearings at the State House where they will report on stories that incorporate drama, tension, and narrative storytelling. Prerequisite: ENGL1050G, ENGL1050H or ENGL1160A (Advanced Feature Writing). Enrollment limited to 17. Instructor permission required. Preference will be given to English concentrators. 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. ENGL1180B Digital Nonfiction CRN24501 M Hour (Mon 3-5:30 pm) Michael Stewart In this class, we will join the host of other artists, activists, and writers that have used Twitter bots, iphone apps, virtual reality experiences, and more to tell compelling stories. No previous digital writing experience is necessary, however, as an advanced creative nonfiction class, Digital Nonfiction requires students to have completed ENGL 0930 or any 1000-level nonfiction writing course. Enrollment is limited to 17. Instructor permission required. S/NC English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 9 of 16

10 ENGL1180C Writing with Food CRN24506 Mon/Wed only 10:00-11:20 am 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. ENGL1180H Satire and Humor Writing CRN24497 Q Hour (Thurs 4-6:30 pm) Jonathan Readey For the advanced writer. This course will introduce students to the practice of writing satire and humorous essays. Readings will include works by Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Garrison Keillor, Bill Bryson, David Foster Wallace, David Sedaris, and others, and students will develop skills in analyzing, writing, and workshopping in the genre. 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. ENGL1180K The Art of Literary Nonfiction CRN24498 K Hour (T/Th 2:30-3:50 pm) Catherine Imbriglio For the advanced writer. Based on Roland Barthes' notion of the fragment, this workshop features an incremental, literary approach to writing nonfiction, in both traditional and experimental formats. In response to daily assignments, students will produce numerous short pieces and three extended "essays," to be gathered into a chapbook at the end of the course. Writing sample required. Prerequisite: ENGL0930 or any 1000-level nonfiction writing course. Not open to first year students. Class list reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during first week of classes. Preference 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 CRN24499 D Hour (MWF 11-11:50 am) 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 10 of 16

11 ENGL1190V Languages of Conscience: Slave Narratives, Prison Writing, and Abolition CRN24507 N Hour (Wed 3-5:30 pm) Kate Schapira We ll read and respond to nonfiction writings that arise from chattel slavery in the U.S and one element of its afterlife, the prison system: their goals, their styles, their strategies. Writings will include analytical and creative responses to these works. The Center for Slavery and Justice will be a resource for us. Enrollment limited to 17. No pre-requisites. Writing sample required. S/NC. ENGL 1994 SENIOR HONORS THESIS IN NONFICTION WRITING Fall (CRN15602) Spring (CRN24591) 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 ENGL1310H The Origins of American Literature (CRN24493) G Hour (MWF 2-2:50 pm) Jim Egan Where does American literature begin? Can it be said to have a single point of origin? Can writings by people who did not consider themselves American be the source of our national literary tradition? Does such a tradition even exist and, if so, what are its main characteristics? How does one understand the various diverse traditions that constitute American literature, including African-American, Native American, and many others, into a single object of study--or does one even need to? Authors may include de Vaca, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, and Phillis Wheatley. WRIT ENGL1311L From Mead-Hall to Mordor: The Celtic and Germanic Roots of Tolkien s Fiction Time: C Hour (MWF 10-10:50 am) Lesley Jacobs This course traces the sources used by J.R.R. Tolkien in writing The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, including tales drawn from Old English, Norse, Welsh, and Irish literatures. You will be introduced to different medieval genres as you consider how the nature and gender of the hero change in specific cultural and linguistic moments English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 11 of 16

12 ENGL1360 SEMINARS IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LITERATURES *NEW* ENGL1361K Seminar in Old English Language II G Hour (MWF 2-2:50 pm) Lesley Jacobs This course continues the work of Introduction to the Old English Language, which is a prerequisite. We will translate short poems including The Wanderer and The Wife s Lament and possibly make inroads on Beowulf, while exploring history, cultural context, and changes in Old English studies. Projects include a midterm examination, research presentation, and final paper, as well as daily translations. Enrollment limited to 20. ENGL 1510 SPECIAL TOPICS IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE RISE OF NATIONAL LITERATURES ENGL1510A Jane Austen and Her Predecessors (CRN24494) GNSS XLIST I Hour (T/Th 10:30-11:50 am) Melinda Rabb This course focuses on the novels of Jane Austen from Sense and Sensibility to Persuasion. The course first establishes some familiarity with the earlier women writers of narrative fiction, in order to gain a deeper understanding of the development of the novel and of Austen's place in that rich tradition. Additional readings include work by Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Mary Wollstonecraft. ENGL1511Y Emily Dickinson and the Theory of Lyric Form (CRN24513) K Hour (T/Th 2:30-3:50 pm) Stuart Burrows This class examines the extraordinary work of Emily Dickinson in an attempt to understand what lyric poetry is and how it works. We will read a generous sampling of Dickinson s poetry as well as a number of the major theoretical accounts of the lyric. Enrollment limited to juniors and seniors. ENGL 1560 SEMINARS IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE RISE OF NATIONAL LITERATURES ENGL 1710 SPECIAL TOPICS IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURES ENGL1710I Harlem Renaissance: The Politics of Culture (CRN24495) AFRI XLIST K Hour (T/Th 2:30-3:50 pm) Rolland Murray The Harlem Renaissance was a remarkable flowering of culture in post-war New York as well as a social movement that advanced political agendas for the nation. This course takes up the relationship between literature and politics by exploring such matters as the urbanization of black America, the representation of the black poor, the influence of white patronage, and the rise of primitivism. Writers may include Hughes, Hurston, Larsen, Fisher, Locke, and McKay. DPLL English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 12 of 16

13 ENGL1710J Modern African Literature (CRN24496) AFRI XLIST J Hour (T/Th 1-2:20 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 include Achebe, Cole, Dangarembga, Farah, Gordimer, Ngugi, Salih, Soyinka, Wicomb. Films by Blomkamp, Loreau, Sembène. DPLL ENGL1710L Modernism and Everyday Life (CRN25139) *TIME CHANGE K Hour (T/Th 2:30-3:50 pm) Tamar Katz We will examine modernist literature in the context of contemporary art, psychology, and theories of everyday life to ask how this period understood ordinary objects and events. Could they be the proper subject matter of art? In the right circumstances, might they actually be art? Writers may include Woolf, Joyce, Williams, Eliot, Stein, James, Freud, decerteau. One previous literature class required. ENGL 1760 SEMINARS IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURES ENGL1760U American Modernism and its Aftermaths (CRN25138) I Hour (T/Th 10:30-11:50 am) Deak Nabers An interdisciplinary study of the rise of modernist aesthetic theory in the United States, its dissemination across various aesthetic (poetry, fiction, various plastic arts) and intellectual (economics, sociology, political theory) fields, and its persistence in United States intellectual life in the various permutations of postmodernism that have succeeded it. Authors to be considered include: poets such as Eliot, Williams, Bishop, Brooks, and Ashbery; novelists such as Faulkner, Hurston, O'Connor, and Didion; aesthetic theorists such as Greenberg, Rosenberg, Fried, Baraka and Kraus; and social theorists such as von Neuman, Rawls, Cavell, Kuhn, Samuelsohn, Drucker, and Friedman. Enrollment limited to 20. ENGL 1900 SPECIAL TOPICS IN CRITICAL AND CULTURAL THEORY 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 English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 13 of 16

14 ENGL1950H The Recent Novel and its Cultural Rivals (CRN24492) Q Hour (Thurs 4-6:30 pm) Deak Nabers A careful consideration of several major late twnetith- and early twenty-first century anglophone novels in terms of their relationship to rival aesthetic forms and media--film, television, radio, video games, and the like. Writers to be considered included: Morrison, Lee, Rushdie, Smith, Didion, Díaz, Pynchon, and Egan. Enrollment limited to 20 senior English concentrators. Others admitted by instructor permission only. ENGL 1992 SENIOR HONORS THESIS IN ENGLISH Fall (CRN15592) Spring (CRN24590) 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 HMAN2400A Politics and Literature (ENGL XLIST) Thursday 1-3:30 pm Amanda Anderson/Bonnie Honig This course will identify a set of key themes in the field of politics and literature and examine them using methods and theoretical frameworks from political theory and literary studies. It is a crossdisciplinary course meant to promote collaboration and self-reflection about disciplinary method and interdisciplinarity, using key examples from the field. Likely theme and concepts include: the ideology of form, affect, ethos, and the relation between political practice and literary mode, political mode and literary practice. Texts will include classical tragic or comic drama, the modern novel, melodramatic film, and the literary essay. ENGL 2360 GRADUATE SEMINARS IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LITERATURES ENGL2361A Is There Renaissance Lyric? (CRN24476) N Hour (Wed 3-5:30 pm) Stephen Foley Lyric poetry, like the renaissance, is a repeat offender: I had to do it. By examining inaugural forms Sappho, Petrarch, Skelton, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson--alongside romantic and post/modernist understandings of lyric, we will display the pleasures of their differences, alternative theories of form, and work by W.R. Johnson, B. Johnson, Culler, R. Greene, Jackson, Prins, Jarvis, Scarry, Stewart. Enrollment limited to English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 14 of 16

15 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. ENGL 2560 GRADUATE SEMINARS IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE RISE OF NATIONAL LITERATURES ENGL2561R Transcendental and Real in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (CRN24477) Q Hour (Thurs 4-6:30 pm) Benjamin Parker How realist was nineteenth-century fiction? This course looks at works where the values are transcendental rather than concrete, and the fate of those values: Dickens, Oliver Twist; Brontë, Wuthering Heights; Eliot, Middlemarch; Pater, Marius the Epicurean; James, The Sacred Fount, The Real Thing, and other short fiction; Conrad, Lord Jim and The Secret Sharer. These to be read alongside philosophical inquiry about the reality of values (Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Badiou) and novel theory accounts (Lukács, Moretti, Armstrong, Pavel). Enrollment limited to 15. 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 ENGL2761F The Racial Lives of Affect (CRN24478) Tuesday 12-2:30 pm Daniel Kim This course explores both dominant and emergent theoretical paradigms that anatomize the affective dimensions of racialized subjectivity in the US with a particular emphasis on recent scholarship that is linked with the field of affect theory. Rather than attempting an exhaustive or definitive mapping of that field, this seminar focuses on those thinkers whose works enhance our understandings of race. Enrollment limited to 15. ENGL2761M Photographic Memory (CRN24479) MCM2310N O Hour (Fri 3-5:30 pm) Stuart Burrows This class examines the relation between photography, memory, narrative, and indexicality. Readings range from classic studies of photography and film to more recent reflections on the role of the camera in a digital age, including the fiction of Ellison, Sebald, and James; the films of Antonioni, Kiarostami, and Bresson; the theoretical work of Bergson, Benjamin, Deleuze, Rancière, Mulvey, and Silverman. Enrollment limited to English Department Course Prospectus--SPRING Page 15 of 16

16 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 ENGL2901H Genres of Critique (CRN24480) M Hour (Mon 3-5:30 pm) Ellen Rooney Debate about the nature and effects of reading resonates across the disciplines and beyond. It may be articulated with interests in formal questions of genre and style or philosophical traditions that draw upon Kantian, marxist or post-colonial canons. This course addresses three genres of critique: philosophical, ideological, and literary, addressing each in its engagements with problems of reading. We will interrogate the distinctiveness and incompatibilities of their discourses as well as their intersections and examine the question of genre itself, in literary avatars and as a trope for critique. Readings include Kant, Althusser, Spivak, Eliot, Gaskell. Enrollment limited to 15. ENGL 2970 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION PREPARATION (No Course Credit) Fall (CRN14973) and Spring (CRN24000). 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 (CRN14974) and Spring (CRN24001). 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 16 of 16