| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENGLISH 8 | MULTICULT AMER LIT | MONTERO ROMAN, V. | This course is an introduction to Multicultural American women’s literature. Surveying multi-ethnic modernist women authors in the United States, our readings will introduce you to pivotal figures from the period and give you a sense of how they engaged with and intervened in debates about modernity. As a group, we will trace how the categories of race and gender developed in the legal, scientific, and political landscape of the early twentieth century, and we will consider how that history impacted the literature we read. Here are a couple of our driving course questions: How are conceptualizations of race, ethnicity, and gender reflected in the content and form of literary texts? What are some of the key debates, recurrent themes, and literary tools that manifest in the writing of women authors in this historical moment? Course assignments will include participation, comprehension quizzes, and a final group project. Readings will likely include authors like Zitkala Sa, Edith Eaton, Nella Larsen, and Maria Cristina Mena. |
| ENGLISH 9 | SHAKESPEARE | LUPTON, J. | |
| ENGLISH 10 | LAB AND LITERATURE | STREITFELD, S. | |
| ENGLISH 15 | AFROFUTURISM | MORGAN, C. | |
| ENGLISH 15 | THE NOVEL:THEN&NOW | TUCKER, I. | |
| ENGLISH 16 | CRAFT OF POETRY | YOUN, M. | |
| ENGLISH 17 | CRAFT OF FICTION | GU, C. | |
| ENGLISH 100 | INTRO TO LIT THEORY | VAN DEN ABBEEL, G. | |
| ENGLISH 101W | HISTORY,MEMORY,LOSS | MORGAN, C. | |
| ENGLISH 101W | SHAKESPEARE & LOVE | HELFER, R. | |
| ENGLISH 102A | ERLYMOD RACE&RELIGN | GRADY, K. | |
| ENGLISH 102B | (THE) ENLIGHTENMENT | LEWIS, J. | |
| ENGLISH 102C | VICTORIAN SCIENCE | TUCKER, I. | |
| ENGLISH 102D | 20C BRITISH LIT | SPEER, M. | |
| ENGLISH 103 | ART AND LOSS | SZALAY, M. | |
| ENGLISH 105 | ASAM SHORT STORIES | LEE, J. | |
| ENGLISH 106 | READINGRACIALMIXING | GRADY, K. | |
| ENGLISH 106 | DOCUMENTARY POETRY | IZENBERG, O. | |
| ENGLISH 106 | VICTORIANLITERATURE | HENDERSON, A. | |
| ENGLISH 198 | SPECIAL TOPICS | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 198 | SPECIAL TOPICS | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 198 | SPECIAL TOPICS | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ENGLISH 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | LATIOLAIS, P. | |
| ENGLISH 205 | WEIRD TALES | STEINTRAGER, J. | English 205 is only open to students admitted into the self-supporting, part-time Master of English. |
| ENGLISH 205 | FEMNARRATIVE THEORY | MONTERO ROMAN, V. | English 205 is open only to students admitted into the self-supported, part-time Master of English program. This course offers an introduction to approaching literary analysis through feminist narratology. Feminist narratology, as Robyn Warhol describes it, is a theoretical approach that contends that “texts are always linked to the material circumstances of the history that produces and receives them,” and because of that, “the more we can understand about narrative’s role in the constitution of gender (race, ability, and sexuality), the better positioned we are to change the oppressive ways that [those] norms work in the world.” The overarching goal for this course is to explore narratology as a method for engaging the formal aspects of narrative structures. Because of this, the class is organized predominantly around thinking about method – about how and why we approach texts in particular ways. Having said that, we need shared texts to use as case studies, so we will be reading early 20th century fiction written by multi-ethnic women to ground our methodological explorations. |
| ENGLISH 210 | US AVANTGARDE | MILLER, T. | M 09:00am - 11:50am, HIB 341 The seminar focuses on the American avant-gardes of the three decades after the Second World War (approximately 1945–1975), with emphasis on the late 1950s and the 1960s. In these years a dense network of overlapping "scenes" — at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and in downtown New York — transformed poetry, prose, painting, sculpture, music, dance, theater, and film, and invented forms that belonged to no single medium: the Happening, the event score, the instruction piece, the dance construction, "intermedia." We will study these scenes through their institutions: colleges and classrooms, lofts, galleries, churches, and coffeehouses; little magazines, mimeograph newsletters, and small presses; record labels, film cooperatives, and theater companies. We will pay particular attention to the anthologies and compilations that gathered, named, and projected the new work: Donald Allen's The New American Poetry (1960), John Cage's Silence (1961), La Monte Young and Jackson Mac Low's An Anthology of Chance Operations (1963), Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Larry Neal, Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing (1968), John Cage and Alison Knowles, Notations (1969), and Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (1973). A recurring philosophical thread is John Dewey's pragmatist pedagogy and aesthetics — Democracy and Education (1916) and Art as Experience (1934) — from its institutional embodiment at Black Mountain College to its reappearance in Allan Kaprow's Happenings and the "democratic" bodies of the Judson Dance Theater. Throughout, we will ask how these avant-gardes relate to the "historical" avant-gardes of the early twentieth century (the problem of the "neo-avant-garde"); how they registered the Cold War, the civil rights and Black Power movements, sexual dissidence and censorship, and the counterculture; and how the category of an "American avant-garde" has been constructed and contested along lines of race, gender, and sexuality. |
| ENGLISH 210 | WHAT IS A PERSON? | IZENBERG, O. | W 02:00pm - 04:50pm, HIB 341 |
| ENGLISH 210 | LIT OF ENG REVOLUTN | WALTON, A. | M 03:00pm - 05:50pm, HIB 341 An intensive survey of the cultures of literary, scientific, religious, and political experiment that remade England in the seventeenth century, with special attention to the central years of the English Revolution, 1640–1660 – two decades that did much to give “revolution” its modern sense of total social upheaval, rather than periodic return. We will read verse and prose by some of the century’s most recognizable names (Milton, Marvell, Cavendish, Hobbes) alongside the new, proliferating genres of print which lend that literature its force and meaning – prophecies, petitions, newsbooks, tub-preaching, ad-hoc political theory – and an upsurge of variously anarchic, republican, communist, and millenarian radicals: Ranters, Levellers, Diggers, Quakers, Fifth Monarchists. Throughout, we will attend to those theoretical and social issues raised in the attempt to move “above the form of Law or Custom” (as Milton put it). Areas of intense concern include liberty, property, and self-possession; the possibility of a public sphere; the nature and origin of the secular; the emergence of capitalism; and the control of (and nature of) nature. |
| ENGLISH 210 | RESTORATION LIT | STEINTRAGER, J. | Tu 02:00pm - 04:50pm, HIB 341 This course will focus on materialism, and particularly the reemergence of Epicurean thought, as it plays out in literature from the Restoration period. We will begin prior to 1660 with a consideration of the intellectual masterpiece of the English Civil Wars’ eras: Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651). We will also read John Evelyn’s 1657 translation and commentary of the first book of Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things before turning to literature from the Restoration period proper. We will spend considerable time on the libertine and satirical poetry of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (“A Ramble in St. James’ Park,” “A Satyr against Reason and Mankind,” “The Imperfect Enjoyment,” etc.), and also read Margaret Cavendish’s utopian oddity The Blazing World, Wycherley’s bawdy comedy The Country Wife, and selections from Dryden and Milton. Other readings that might be added for further context could include entries from Samuel Pepys’s diary, Robert Hooke’s treatise on microscopy Micrographia and contemporary English translations of French libertine |
| ENGLISH 210 | VICTORIAN VISION | HENDERSON, A. | W 09:00am - 11:50am, HIB 341 In this course we will trace the nineteenth-century preoccupation with seeing and vision, focusing on poems and novels that are meditations on the relation of literature to painting and/or photography. Readings will include De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and Collins’ The Woman in White, along with poems by Tennyson, Browning, Swinburne, and Rossetti. |
| ENGLISH 299 | DISSERTATN RESEARCH | ALEXANDER, J. |