printer friendly pageENGLISH 159: James Baldwin & Twentieth Century Literature (AFRICAAM 159, FEMGEN 159)
Black, gay and gifted, Baldwin was hailed as a ¿spokesman for the race¿¿although he personally, and controversially, eschewed titles and classifications of all kinds. This course examines his classic novels and essays as well his exciting work across many lesser-examined domains¿poetry, music, theatre, sermon, photo-text, children¿s literature, public media, comedy and artistic collaboration. Placing his work in context with other writers of the 20C (Faulkner, Wright,Morrison) and capitalizing on a resurgence of interest in the writer (NYC just dedicated a year of celebration of Baldwin and there are 2 new journals dedicated to study of Baldwin), the course seeks to capture the power and influence of Baldwin's work during the Civil Rights era as well as his relevance in the ¿post-race¿ transnational 21st century, when his prescient questioning of the boundaries of race, sex, love, leadership and country assume new urgency.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Elam, M. (PI)
ENGLISH 160: Poetry and Poetics
Introduction to the reading of poetry, with emphasis on how the sense of poems is shaped through diction, imagery, and technical elements of verse.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Boland, E. (PI)
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Davis, C. (PI)
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Gigante, D. (PI)
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Instructors:
Boland, E. (PI)
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Davis, C. (PI)
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Gigante, D. (PI)
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Jenkins, N. (PI)
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Kunz, E. (PI)
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Noble, J. (PI)
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Stone, E. (PI)
ENGLISH 161: Narrative and Narrative Theory
An introduction to stories and storytelling--that is, to narrative. What is narrative? When is narrative fictional and when non-fictional? How is it done, word by word, sentence by sentence? Must it be in prose? Can it be in pictures? How has storytelling changed over time? Focus on various forms, genres, structures, and characteristics of narrative.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Bender, J. (PI)
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Law, A. (PI)
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Moya, P. (PI)
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Porter, J. (PI)
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Woloch, A. (PI)
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Manshel, A. (TA)
ENGLISH 162W: Writing Intensive Seminar in English (WISE)
Small literature-based, writing-intensive seminars taught by advanced graduate students in the English Ph.D. program. The goal will be to produce a high-quality final research paper. Courses will be oriented around a single text or a small group of texts in conversation with a larger spectrum of scholarship and knowledge in literary criticism and theory, film, painting, or material culture. The small format will allow undergraduates to receive detailed commentary and one-on-one feedback on their writing.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
Instructors:
Ammah-Tagoe, A. (PI)
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Barnhart, L. (PI)
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Chew, D. (PI)
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Ammah-Tagoe, A. (PI)
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Barnhart, L. (PI)
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Chew, D. (PI)
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Droge, A. (PI)
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Frank, M. (PI)
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Googasian, V. (PI)
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Mann, J. (PI)
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Tackett, J. (PI)
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Taylor, M. (PI)
ENGLISH 163: Shakespeare
Readings of six Shakespeare plays, with attention to poetic and dramatic elements, performance history, and historical and cultural contexts.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 164C: English Capstone Project
Do you want to design your own capstone research project in English? The capstone is a self-designed project on an author, critical concept, topic, or historical period that motivates you to dig more deeply into literary research. It consolidates skills in reading, critical analysis, imaginative interpretation, writing, revising and editing which are cornerstones to the broader study of English literature. Does a whole quarter¿s focus on sharing with similarly-focused peers your progress toward a 15-20 page research paper appeal to you?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Staveley, A. (PI)
ENGLISH 166: Who were the Vikings? (GERMAN 166)
Who were the Vikings and what has been their influence on contemporary culture? This course provides a broad introduction to Viking society and culture as well as to their legacy in the modern world. We will look at Viking life, mythology, literature, art and archaeology as well as modern adaptations of Viking culture in music, literature, film and television. We will read some of the great works of Viking literature ¿ tales of Odin and Thor, of magic and monsters, of adventures across the seas - and examine online exhibitions of Vikings artefacts and settlements in Europe and Newfoundland. During the first half of the course, students will begin thinking about their final project ¿ a creative reimagining one of the texts or artefacts which we will discuss in class. The latter half of the course will focus on the development of the Vikings as a cultural model for modern creative expression. We will investigate how Norse themes, characters and forms were adapted in Germany, England and the USA in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by writers, artists and composers such as Richard Wagner, William Morris, Henry Longfellow and J.R.R. Tolkien. The course will conclude with a discussion of how the Vikings (and Viking ideas) are represented today in popular culture, including the 1958 Kirk Douglas film, ¿the Vikings¿, the TV shows ¿The Vikings¿ and ¿Game of Thrones¿ and the Marvel comic books series. Students will be encouraged to examine the ways in which these texts engage with their historical models and consider how this might influence their own creative project.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Hutchinson, C. (PI)
ENGLISH 167C: ¿Wandering in Strange Lands¿: Science Fiction of the Black Atlantic (CSRE 167C)
African-American culture critic Greg Tate once remarked that ¿Black people live the estrangement that science fiction authors imagine¿. In light of his observation, this course proposes to look at the black science fiction (SF) tradition from a variety of angles. Some examples: How do black authors use familiar speculative tropes, such as encounters with aliens, to comment on matters of race? What happens when tropes from African-American realist fiction, such as the passing narrative, become science fictionalized? How does the intersection of race and gender affect speculative works by black women? And perhaps the most central question: What do we gain by looking at matters of race through the lens of SF?
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Shephard, A. (PI)
ENGLISH 167D: The Mystery Plot
Though the mystery is often equated with a single genre¿detective fiction¿its literary examples stretch beyond the confines of a particular genre or period. This course focuses on the evolution of the modern mystery plot, tracing a long arc from its emergence in the eighteenth-century Gothic novel to its contemporary reinventions in the television procedural and the true crime podcast. Moving from the medieval castle to the urban street, the open sea to the country estate, we will investigate the extraordinary range and resilience of one of the most fundamental narrative forms across historical contexts. We¿ll analyze the use of serial form in Wilkie Collins¿
The Moonstone and the podcast sensation
Serial; the invention of the clue and the transformations of the detective in the writings of De Quincey, Poe, Conan Doyle, and Hammett; and the production of suspense in Radcliffe¿s
The Mysteries of Udolpho and Melville¿s
Benito Cereno. Throughout the course we will pay special attention to the mystery¿s uncertain relationship to the novel, to realism, and to the literary itself.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Eccles, A. (PI)
ENGLISH 167H: The Ethical Gangster
(English majors must register for 5 units) A study of recent developments in understanding human moral psychology using mafia movies to explore the differences between Kantian and Utilitarian moral theory. We will study the greatest hits of gangster fiction and film, from Fielding's
Jonathan Wild to
The Sopranos.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
Instructors:
Douris, S. (PI)
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Vermeule, B. (PI)
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