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ENGLISH 362G: African American Modernism

A course exploring the aesthetic continuities and divergences, the artistic collaborations and political arguments, between Harlem Renaissance and Modernist writers across the color line in the first half of the twentieth century.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: Elam, M. (PI)

ENGLISH 363D: Feminist Theory: Thinking Through/With/About the Gendered Body (FEMGEN 363D)

Organized around a series of case studies, this graduate feminist theory course will consider issues related to the complex relationship between sex, gender, sexuality, biological reproduction, violence, and social power. It is a core course for the PhD minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Enrollment is limited to PhD-level students.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5
Instructors: Moya, P. (PI)

ENGLISH 368A: Imagining the Oceans (COMPLIT 368A, FRENCH 368A)

How has Western culture constructed the world's oceans since the beginning of global ocean exploration? How have imaginative visions of the ocean been shaped by marine science, technology, exploration, commerce and leisure? Primary authors read might include Cook, Banks, Equiano, Ricketts, and Steinbeck; Defoe, Cooper, Verne, Conrad, Woolf and Hemingway; Coleridge, Baudelaire, Moore, Bishop and Walcott. Critical readings include Schmitt, Rediker and Linebaugh, Baucom, Best, Corbin, Auden, Sontag and Heller-Roazen. Films by Sekula, Painlevé and Bigelow. Seminar coordinated with a 2015 Cantor Arts Center public exhibition. Visits to the Cantor; other possible field trips include Hopkins Marine Station and SF Maritime Historical Park. Open to graduate students only.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5
Instructors: Cohen, M. (PI)

ENGLISH 373C: Text of Shakespeare

The Shakespearean text from script and performance to quartos, folios, editions, and back to script and performance. What has constituted a "good" text of Shakespeare, and what is bad about "bad" quartos? The ethics and politics of editing; the relation of editorial practice to stage practice on the one hand, and to what we want Shakespeare to be on the other? Plays with multiple original texts will be studied: "Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear."
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: Orgel, S. (PI)

ENGLISH 376C: Tragic Form and Political Theory (COMPLIT 376C, PHIL 376C)

Tragic form and political theory have in common a profound interest in the conflictual foundation of human society. This course will explore how the two intellectual approaches define the actors of conflict, its causes, and its possible [or impossible] resolution.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5
Instructors: Moretti, F. (PI)

ENGLISH 383A: The Ballad Tradition (COMPLIT 227A, GERMAN 200)

This team-taught cross-disciplinary course traces the history and aesthetics of the ballad in German, English, and Scottish literature, from the 18th century to the early 20th century. No knowledge of German is required, but reading knowledge is a plus.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5

ENGLISH 384D: The Palliser Novels

Readings include Anthony Trollope's six Palliser novels, Can You Forgive Her? (1864), Phineas Finn (1869), The Eustace Diamonds (1873), Phineas Redux (1874), The Prime Minister (1876) and The Duke's Children (1879). Topics include: writing in serial; writing across the novel form; Victorian realism; the family saga and multi-volume characterization.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: Jarvis, C. (PI)

ENGLISH 390: Graduate Fiction Workshop

For Stegner fellows in the writing program. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 3 | Repeatable for credit

ENGLISH 392: Graduate Poetry Workshop

For Stegner fellows in the writing program. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 3 | Repeatable for credit

ENGLISH 394: Independent Study

Preparation for first-year Ph.D. qualifying examination.
Terms: Sum | Units: 1-10 | Repeatable for credit
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