| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENGLISH 205 | HUMANISM? | RADHAKRISHNAN, R. | E205 is only open to students enrolled in the Master of English program. So, when the world “human” is so self-evident, why then do we need an “ism” after? What is the suffix, what does it do, and where does it come from? Is it a faith, a religion, a normative template, an ideological structure? Is it a compelling worldview, a Gestalt, and if so, is it historical, eternal, immanent, transcendental? Is humanism fundamentally political, ethical, aesthetic, ontological, discursive, systemic, epistemological? Is humanism secular or does it shore up religion by other means? Is the “human” a construct or a natural and exceptionalist center that overlooks and establishes reality? Is the human a settler or a native or neither? What is the relationship of Humanism to Nationalism? Is humanism necessarily occidental and Eurocentric? Does humanism, along with anthropocentrism, need to be critiqued and transcended in the name of the environment, ecology, artificial intelligence, and planetary Being? Is the human Self or Other or both? Yes, indeed, questions and more questions. In this course we will trace the trajectory of the “human” across different terrains, registers, histories, and scales. I am interested, with your cooperation, in exploring the onto-political continuum, from Being to being, from being to human being, from human being to citizen being, and so on. Clearly nationality, gender, race, sexuality, trans-gender, and other indices of identity and representation will be an organic part of our journey. With the help of texts, literary, theoretical, and philosophical, we will, human all too human, try all we can to understand who we are and who the “we” is or should be. Sampling of texts, literary as well as theoretical, by no means final or definitive: Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Ernst Renan, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter, Rabindranath Tagore, Virginia Woolf, Mohandas Gandhi, Frantz Fanon, Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison. Expectations: Very likely 1 long essay or 2 short essays. |
| ENGLISH 205 | MODERN ELEGY | IZENBERG, O. | E205 is only open to students enrolled in the Master of English program. Does grief have a form? Can mourning be done well, or badly, or even beautifully? In this course, we’ll study the strange meeting place of loss and art, the poetic genre of Elegy. We’ll begin with some ancient examples of the attempt to give voice to the unavoidable reality of mortality, and trace the way that a formless fact like death becomes a genre of literature—one that can take in any or all of the many things we can mourn: a beloved individual, an abstract idea, or even a people. The second half of the course will be devoted to modern elegies—and to the ways poets closer to us in history have wrestled with the expression of grief. Authors might include: Virgil, John Milton, Walt Whitman, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alice Oswald, Anne Carson. |
| ENGLISH 206 | RESEARCH & WRITING | SZALAY, M. | |
| ENGLISH 210 | ERLY MOD ENG LIT | GRADY, K. | W 02:00pm - 04:50pm, HIB 341 This course will broadly examine early modern English constructs of race, particularly in relation to England’s imperial projects. We will focus in particular on how these constructs are represented in late 15th and early 16th century English drama and culture. We will read dramatic work by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, early modern travel narrative, archival material, and recent scholarship in premodern critical race studies. This course will also operate as a survey of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. |
| ENGLISH 210 | LATINA LITERATURE | MONTERO ROMAN, V. | M 11:00am - 01:50pm, HIB 341 In this course we will read literature and theoretical texts that explore the intersection of discussions of race, gender, and Latinidad. The goal for the course will be to consider some of the ways authors have conceptualized and critiqued Latinidad, and to identify key theories, concepts, and debates that emerge in discussions of their work. This will include discussions of the overlap between Latine theory and disability studies, environmental studies, queer theory, and other areas of critical race studies. Reading primary texts from the 20th century to today, this course provides an introduction to a genealogy of U.S. based Latina authors, and it also offers the opportunity to be exposed to theories and methodologies that emerge in conversation with this tradition. |
| ENGLISH 210 | POETICS OF POSSBLTY | MORGAN, C. | Th 09:00am - 11:50am, HIB 411 This course considers how African American writers have pushed the limits of literary expression to aestheticize subjective experience and various forms of liberation. Reading a range of narrative, poetic, cinematic, and dramatic texts, students will consider the fundamental philosophical premises underlying Black writers’ creative efforts. Contemporary issues in Black Studies and a genealogical survey of Black literary critical debates will guide this course of study. |
| ENGLISH 210 | DISPOSSESSED 18TH C | MCCALL, S. | F 11:00am - 01:50p, HIB 341 Connecting the British enclosure movement to racialized dispossession in the British American colonies, this seminar will introduce students to novels, plays, poems and essays spanning the long eighteenth century (1660-1830) that explore rising mercantilism, imperial expansion and Britain's deepening involvement in transatlantic slavery. |
| ENGLISH 255 | WRKSHOP IN ACAD PUB | FAN, C. | |
| ENGLISH 290 | READING&CONFERENCE | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 290 | READING&CONFERENCE | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 290 | READING&CONFERENCE | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 290 | READING&CONFERENCE | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 290 | READING&CONFERENCE | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 290 | READING&CONFERENCE | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 290 | READING&CONFERENCE | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 290 | READING&CONFERENCE | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 290 | READING&CONFERENCE | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 290 | READING&CONFERENCE | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 290 | READING&CONFERENCE | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 291 | GUIDED READING | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 291 | GUIDED READING | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 291 | GUIDED READING | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 291 | GUIDED READING | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 291 | GUIDED READING | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 299 | DISSERTATN RESEARCH | ALEXANDER, J. | |
| ENGLISH 399 | UNIVERSITY TEACHING | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 399 | UNIVERSITY TEACHING | LATIOLAIS, P. | |
| ENGLISH 399 | UNIVERSITY TEACHING | ALEXANDER, J. |