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Have you ever wanted to talk to the author after reading a favorite book? In this course, we will read seven collections of poetry and host their poets to discuss the processes behind each collection. We will read deeply (at the level of the poem) and consider widely (the ambition and arrangement of a book) with a focus on craft. Students will also write poems, participate in Q&A with visiting poets, and produce a small chapbook of their own work by the end of the quarter.

Taught by the Mohr Visiting Poet. Prerequisite: 92. By application. Permission number required to enroll.

CPT course required for international students completing degree.Following internship work, students complete a research report outlining work activity, problems investigated, key results and follow-up projects. Meets the requirements for curricular practical training for students on F-1 visas. Student is responsible for arranging own internship and faculty sponsorship.

Overview of literary-critical methodologies, with a practical emphasis shaped by participants' current honors projects. Restricted to students in the English Honors Program.

In two quarters.

Undergraduates who wish to study a subject or area not covered by regular courses may, with consent, enroll for individual work under the supervision of a member of the department. 198 may not be used to fulfill departmental area or elective requirements without consent. Group seminars are not appropriate for 198.

This is an Introduction to the major medieval hands that will help a scholar identify, date, and localize any manuscript they might encounter. The goal is to provide exposure to fundamental paleographic principles of features, aspect, scholarly descriptive language, paleographic historiography, and methodologies, to build an analytical toolset for future in-depth manuscript study. Over the course of ten sessions, team-taught by Stanford experts, students will gain broad exposure to a range of document types from a broad chronological and geographic sampling, learning how to apply paleographic analysis to these documents. Directed readings through the quarter will allow for further self-guided learning and provide a core of reference materials for future study. The emphasis is on practical skills acquisition for any student hoping to work with medieval documents. The course will be held in Stanford's Department of Special Collections and draw upon our extensive collection of medieval primary source materials and reference library of secondary literature and facsimiles. Weekly exercises will focus on transcription, paleographic feature recognition, comparison, and other hands-on exercises. For one unit, weekly attendance and participation is required. For two units, a substantial transcription and analysis final project will be added.

This course will explore contexts of race, religion, sexuality and gender in multiple Shakespeare plays (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest), with critical readings on topics including feminist and queer theory, transvestite theater, historically blackface performance, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, forced conversion, competing empires, colonialism and postcolonialism, and racial profiling (among others).