| ENGL 101-01 |
Medievalism from J.R.R. Tolkien to Game of Thrones
Instructor: Chelsea Skalak
Course Description:
The novels of J.R.R. Tolkien popularized a new era of medievalism in the arts, inspiring an incredible output of novels, art, movies and television, and video and role-playing games. Yet "medievalism" is also often hurled as an insult, indicating outmoded or backwards-looking modes of thought. In this class, we will consider the ramifications of the resurgence of medievalism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including questions of genre, politics, history, and the individual in society. Authors include J.R.R. Tolkien, Ursula Le Guin, and G.R.R. Martin.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
EASTC 411 |
| ENGL 101-02 |
Southern Women Writers
Instructor: Carol Ann Johnston
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 101-01. A course in prose written by women of the American South. We will begin with the diary of Mary Chesnut written during the Civil War and continue with notable writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, which may include Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Ellen Gilchrist, Ellen Douglas, Kaye Gibbons. Some critical and theoretical texts will also be required. Writing assignments will include short explications, longer essays, and an exam. Attendance and participation in class discussion are required.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
BOSLER 208 |
| ENGL 101-05 |
Storytelling Across Media
Instructor: Greg Steirer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 220-03. As human beings, we encounter stories everywhere: not only in literature, comic books, and film; but also in our myths and religions, our personal and national histories, our career plans, and our politics-even our everyday conversations. Almost all aspects of social life, in fact, depend upon storytelling, a fact that has led some theorists to suggest that the ability to create and understand stories is one of the defining features of human beings as a species. But how does storytelling work? What are its underlying rules and structures? And how do stories differ across different media? This course will introduce students to the study of storytelling (sometimes called narratology) through the examination of stories in multiple media, including literature, film, and video games.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
EASTC 411 |
| ENGL 101-06 |
Storytelling Across Media
Instructor: Greg Steirer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 220-04. As human beings, we encounter stories everywhere: not only in literature, comic books, and film; but also in our myths and religions, our personal and national histories, our career plans, and our politics-even our everyday conversations. Almost all aspects of social life, in fact, depend upon storytelling, a fact that has led some theorists to suggest that the ability to create and understand stories is one of the defining features of human beings as a species. But how does storytelling work? What are its underlying rules and structures? And how do stories differ across different media? This course will introduce students to the study of storytelling (sometimes called narratology) through the examination of stories in multiple media, including literature, film, and video games.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
EASTC 411 |
| ENGL 220-01 |
Introduction to Literary Studies
Instructor: Sarah Kersh
Course Description:
In literary studies, we explore the work texts do in the world. This course examines several texts of different kinds (e.g., novel, poetry, film, comic book, play, etc.) to investigate how literary forms create meanings. It also puts texts in conversation with several of the critical theories and methodologies that shape the discipline of literary study today (e.g., Marxist theory, new historicism, formalism, gender theory, postcolonial theory, ecocriticism, etc.). This course helps students frame interpretive questions and develop their own critical practice. Prerequisite: 101. This course is the prerequisite for 300-level work in English.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
EASTC 410 |
| ENGL 220-02 |
Introduction to Literary Studies
Instructor: Carol Ann Johnston
Course Description:
In literary studies, we explore the work texts do in the world. This course examines several texts of different kinds (e.g., novel, poetry, film, comic book, play, etc.) to investigate how literary forms create meanings. It also puts texts in conversation with several of the critical theories and methodologies that shape the discipline of literary study today (e.g., Marxist theory, new historicism, formalism, gender theory, postcolonial theory, ecocriticism, etc.). This course helps students frame interpretive questions and develop their own critical practice. Prerequisite: 101. This course is the prerequisite for 300-level work in English.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
EASTC 108 |
| ENGL 220-03 |
Introduction to Literary Studies
Instructor: Siobhan Phillips
Course Description:
In literary studies, we explore the work texts do in the world. This course examines several texts of different kinds (e.g., novel, poetry, film, comic book, play, etc.) to investigate how literary forms create meanings. It also puts texts in conversation with several of the critical theories and methodologies that shape the discipline of literary study today (e.g., Marxist theory, new historicism, formalism, gender theory, postcolonial theory, ecocriticism, etc.). This course helps students frame interpretive questions and develop their own critical practice. Prerequisite: 101. This course is the prerequisite for 300-level work in English.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
EASTC 108 |
| ENGL 221-01 |
Life Writing
Instructor: Jacob Sider Jost
Course Description:
In this course we will read texts that represent human lives, including biographies, autobiographies, diaries, memoirs and essays. We will investigate how texts organize and make sense of human lives. Students will also compose their own life-writing texts
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
EASTC 112 |
| ENGL 222-01 |
Literary Adaptations
Instructor: Chelsea Skalak
Course Description:
In some ways, literature is the history of telling the same stories again and again. A medieval romance becomes a Shakespearean play, an 18th-century lyric poem, a 19th-century novel, and finally a 20th-century film. Today, the proliferation of parodies, critiques, re-tellings, and remakes extends the world of adaptation still further. In this class, we will study the theory of adaptation as we explore how stories cross genres, time periods, and cultural contexts. In this writing-intensive workshop class, we will consider how new technologies enable and alter the kinds of stories that can be told, and what criteria we use to evaluate them.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
EASTC 314 |
| ENGL 321-01 |
James Joyce's Ulysses
Instructor: Wendy Moffat
Course Description:
Now you can tell your grandchildren that you have read, finished, and (partially) understood the Great Modern Novel almost every serious reader has picked up and attempted. The text of Ulysses (1922) is the linchpin for intertextual explorations; we will read Ulysses slowly, throughout the whole term. In addition, we will read around the novel, considering alternative contexts for understanding this complex, yet wonderful work. Other readings will include versions of Joyce's autobiography (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Hero), biography (Richard Ellman and Edna O'Brien on Joyce and Brenda Maddox on Nora Barnacle, Joyce's lover and wife), Joyce's fiction (The Dubliners), the mythic context (The Odyssey, The Bible, Celtic myth), and Irish social history.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
EASTC 301 |
| ENGL 331-01 |
Angels and Demons on the Early English Stage
Instructor: Chelsea Skalak
Course Description:
From the soaring orations of God and the admonitions of angels to the blasphemies and deceptions of devils, the denizens of heaven and hell occupied considerable time and space on the medieval and early modern stage. In the mouths of supernatural beings, playwrights could ask challenging questions about subjects such as religion, government, free will, gendered relationships, personal identity, and the nature of literature. This class will explore these issues through the lens of early English drama, from amateur medieval guilds to the rise of professional public theaters, and will conclude with the study of these early works in performance today. Texts will include medieval cycle and morality plays, Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Shakespeare's Othello, and Ben Jonson's The Devil is an Ass.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
EASTC 301 |
| ENGL 331-03 |
The Novel and the Normal
Instructor: Claire Seiler
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 301-03. Theorists of the novel have long debated the means and the extent to which the genre consolidates national, social, and embodied ideas of the "normal" person or citizen. This course takes up that debate with reference to 19th- and 20th-century American, British, and Irish fiction in which a character's or a polity's physical body is at issue. How and why do modern novelists variously bend, break, or repurpose the rules of the novel genre or engage with the "norms" it projects? How do hallmarks of the novel (e.g., the creation of "round" and "flat" characters, the arc of plot, the evocation of mood, the description of social and environmental settings) contribute to dominant or other imaginations of the normal body at discrete historical moments? How does the novel genre work on its readers across time and in particular communities, including disability communities? Students can expect to explore these and other pressing questions about the novel and its publics as they read (a lot)-and savor reading-engrossing novels by Charlotte Bront, Willa Cather, J.G. Farrell, Toni Morrison, Ann Petry, and Virginia Woolf, among others, as well as important critical writings on the politics, disability and otherwise, of the novel genre itself.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
BOSLER 314 |
| ENGL 331-04 |
U.S. Poetry of the Modernist Era
Instructor: Siobhan Phillips
Course Description:
This course examines U.S. poetry of the first four decades of the twentieth century, focusing on how authors experimented with new forms and techniques of verse writing to engage with changing social and political conditions. Authors studied will include T. S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Marianne Moore, and Muriel Rukeyser.
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12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
EASTC 314 |
| ENGL 341-01 |
The Fairy Way of Writing: Romance, Epic, Fantasy, and Myth in Early Modern England
Instructor: Jacob Sider Jost
Course Description:
In this course we will read texts that imagine fantastical worlds, focusing primarily on England between 1590 and 1800. Authors may include Spenser, Shakespeare, Perrault, Cavendish, Wortley Montagu, Dryden, Swift, as well as popular and children's texts. We will also encounter early modern readers and critics who explore the power of fantasy, such as Dryden, Addison, Boswell, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Lamb, as well as contemporary scholars of myth and fantasy such as Maria Tatar and Rosemary Jackson.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
EASTC 301 |
| ENGL 341-02 |
Shakespeare & Co.: Love Poems in Early Modern England
Instructor: Carol Ann Johnston
Course Description:
Cross-listed with MEMS 200-01. Shakespeare's _Sonnets_ (1603) were late to the party; the "sonnet craze" in the English Renaissance peaked in 1581. But Shakespeare's Sonnets were the life of the party. The narrator falls for a beautiful, wealthy young man, and a dark, enigmatic woman; Shakespeare charts the fickleness of desire and obsession in 154 dazzling poems. Still the most famous love poems in English, Shakespeare's sonnets inflected three major poetry collections: Mary Wroth's _Pamphilia to Amphilanthus_ (1621), in which the lover/speaker is a woman; John Donne's _Songs and Sonnets_ (1633), frank love poems unpublished during Donne's lifetime, and George Herbert's _The Temple_ (1633), subtle poems addressing the nexus of sexual and religious power, published after his death from his hand-written manuscript. These four collections radically revise the tradition of the Petrarchan love poem in which the male lover pines after the fragile, yet unavailable, female beloved. For context, we will begin by reading some sonnets from Petrarch's _Rime Sparse_ (1327-68) to appreciate the conventions of the love poem that Shakespeare & co. revise, trash, blow up, steal, and exploit. We hope to visit the Folger Shakespeare Library to see early printed editions (and first folios).
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
EASTC 301 |
| ENGL 404-01 |
Senior Thesis Workshop
Instructor: Claire Seiler
Course Description:
A workshop requiring students to share discoveries and problems as they produce a lengthy manuscript based on a topic of their own choosing, subject to the approval of the instructor.Prerequisites: 403.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, R
EASTC 303 |
| ENGL 404-02 |
Senior Thesis Workshop
Instructor: Greg Steirer
Course Description:
A workshop requiring students to share discoveries and problems as they produce a lengthy manuscript based on a topic of their own choosing, subject to the approval of the instructor.Prerequisites: 403.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, T
EASTC 303 |
| ENGL 500-01 |
Reading the Romance
Instructor: Sarah Kersh
Course Description:
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