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This page displays the schedule of Bryn Mawr courses in this department for this academic year. It also displays descriptions of courses offered by the department during the last four academic years.

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Spring 2013

COURSE	TITLE	SCHEDULE/ UNITS	MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS	LOCATION	INSTRUCTOR(S)
ENGL B125-001	Writing Workshop	Semester / 1	Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH	Taylor Hall F	Ruben,M.
ENGL B125-002	Writing Workshop: Science Focus	Semester / 1	LEC: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH	Taylor Hall E	Callaghan,J.
ENGL B125-003	Writing Workshop	Semester / 1	LEC: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH	Taylor Hall F	Ruben,M.
ENGL B125-004	Writing Workshop	Semester / 1	LEC: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH	Taylor Hall E	Todd,J.
ENGL B125-005	Writing Workshop	Semester / 1	LEC: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH	English House Lecture Hall	Ladva,N.
ENGL B127-001	Workshop for Multilingual Writers (Advanced)	Semester / 0.5	LEC: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM F	English House II	Litsinger,B.
ENGL B205-001	Introduction to Film	Semester / 1	Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW	Carpenter Library 25	Nguyen,H.
			Film: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM SU	Thomas Hall 224
ENGL B210-001	Renaissance Literature: Performances of Gender	Semester / 1	Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW	English House II	Hedley,J.
ENGL B243-001	Historical Introduction to English Poetry II	Semester / 1	Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF	English House II	Briggs,P.
ENGL B246-001	Medievalisms	Semester / 1	Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW	Taylor Hall F	Taylor,J., Truitt,E.
ENGL B247-001	Multilingual Shakespeare	Semester / 0.5	LEC: 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM F	English House I	Rowe,K.
ENGL B250-001	Methods of Literary Study	Semester / 1	Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM MW	English House I	Taylor,J.
ENGL B250-002	Methods of Literary Study	Semester / 1	Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH	Carpenter Library 17	Tratner,M.
ENGL B253-001	Romanticism	Semester / 1	LEC: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM TTH	English House I	Ricketts,R.
ENGL B256-001	Milton and Dissent	Semester / 1	Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW	English House I	Rowe,K.
ENGL B260-001	Interdisciplinary Approaches to German Literature and Culture: A History of Queer Bodies	Semester / 1	Lecture: 7:00 PM- 9:30 PM M	Dalton Hall 2	Schlipphacke,H.
			Screening: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM SU	Dalton Hall 2
ENGL B263-001	Toni Morrison and the Art of Narrative Conjure	Semester / 1	Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH	English House I	Beard,L.
ENGL B276-001	Transnational American Literature	Semester / 1	Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH	English House II	Harford Vargas,J.
ENGL B323-001	Movies, Fascism, and Communism	Semester / 1	Lecture: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM TTH	Carpenter Library 15	Tratner,M.
			Film: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM M	Carpenter Library 21
ENGL B334-001	Topics in Film Studies: Curating Film: Festivals, Nationalism and Revoluti	Semester / 1	Lecture: 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM TH	Carpenter Library 13	Rastegar,R.
ENGL B336-001	Topics in Film: Found Footage Film	Semester / 1	LEC: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM MW	Dalton Hall 212A	Nguyen,H.
			Film: 4:00 PM- 7:00 PM SU	Thomas Hall 224
ENGL B345-001	Topics in Narrative Theory: Theory of the Ethnic Novel	Semester / 1	LEC: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH	English House I	Harford Vargas,J.
ENGL B351-001	Jane Austen: Contexts, Criticism, Adaptations	Semester / 1	LEC: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH	English House Lecture Hall	Ricketts,R.
ENGL B356-001	Endgames: Theater of Samuel Beckett	Semester / 1	LEC: 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM W	Goodhart Hall Common Room	Lord,M.
ENGL B365-001	Erotica: Love and Art in Plato and Shakespeare	Semester / 1	LEC: 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM T	English House II	Hedley,J., Salkever,S.
ENGL B388-001	Contemporary African Fiction	Semester / 1	Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH	English House I	Beard,L.
ENGL B399-001	Senior Essay	Semester / 1	Other: Date/Time TBA		Dept. staff, TBA
ENGL B403-001	Supervised Work	Semester / 1			Dept. staff, TBA
ENGL B403-001	Supervised Work	Semester / 1			Dept. staff, TBA

Fall 2013

COURSE	TITLE	SCHEDULE/ UNITS	MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS	LOCATION	INSTRUCTOR(S)
ENGL B126-001	Workshop for Multilingual Writers	Semester / 0.5	Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM F	English House II	Litsinger,B.
ENGL B126-002	Workshop for Multilingual Writers	Semester / 0.5	Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:30 PM W	English House I	Litsinger,B.
ENGL B127-001	Workshop for Multilingual Writers (Advanced)	Semester / 0.5	Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM F	English House II	Litsinger,B.
ENGL B193-001	Critical Feminist Studies	Semester / 1	Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH	English House Lecture Hall	Dalke,A.
ENGL B213-001	Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the Humanities: Rhetoric and Interpretation after Post-Modernism	Semester / 1	Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW		Interim,R.
ENGL B217-001	Narratives of Latinidad	Semester / 1	Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH	Thomas Hall 104	Harford Vargas,J.
ENGL B219-001	Facing the Facts/Essaying the Subjective	Semester / 1	Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW	English House II	Ricketts,R.
ENGL B220-001	Writing in Theory/Writing in Practice	Semester / 1	Lecture: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM TTH		Hemmeter,G.
ENGL B238-001	Topics: The History of Cinema 1895 to 1945: Silent Film: From U.S. to Soviet Russia& Beyond	Semester / 1	Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH	Taylor Hall E	Harte,T.
			Film: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM M	Thomas Hall 224
ENGL B240-001	Wit and Witness: English Literature 1660-1744	Semester / 1	Lecture: 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM MWF	English House II	Briggs,P.
ENGL B242-001	Historical Introduction to English Poetry I	Semester / 1	Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF	English House II	Briggs,P.
ENGL B250-001	Methods of Literary Study	Semester / 1	Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW	English House I	Beard,L.
ENGL B268-001	Native Soil and American Literature:1492-1900	Semester / 1	Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW	English House Lecture Hall	Schneider,B.
ENGL B272-001	Queer of Color Critique	Semester / 1	LEC: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH	Taylor Hall F	Nguyen,H.
			Screening: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM M	Taylor Hall F
ENGL B292-001	The Play of Interpretation	Semester / 1	Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH	Dalton Hall 212E	Seyhan,A.
ENGL B332-001	Novelas de las Américas	Semester / 1	Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH	Thomas Hall 104	Gaspar,M.
ENGL B334-001	Topics in Film Studies	Semester / 1	Lecture: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM TH	Thomas Hall 102	Rastegar,R.
			Film: 7:00 PM- 9:00 PM T	Carpenter Library 25
ENGL B354-001	Virginia Woolf	Semester / 1	Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH	Dalton Hall 2	Tratner,M.
ENGL B359-001	Dead Presidents	Semester / 1	Lecture: 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM MW	English House I	Schneider,B.
ENGL B373-001	Masculinity in English Literature: From Chivalry to Civility	Semester / 1	Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM MW	English House Lecture Hall	Ricketts,R.
ENGL B379-001	The African Griot(te)	Semester / 1	Lecture: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM M	English House I	Beard,L.
ENGL B398-001	Senior Seminar	Semester / 1	Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM M	English House Lecture Hall	Dept. staff, TBA
			Discussion: 4:00 PM- 5:30 PM M

Spring 2014

COURSE	TITLE	SCHEDULE/ UNITS	MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS	LOCATION	INSTRUCTOR(S)
ENGL B125-001	Writing Workshop	Semester / 1	Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH	Taylor Hall B	Ruben,M.
ENGL B125-002	Writing Workshop	Semester / 1	Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH	Taylor Hall C	Callaghan,J.
ENGL B125-003	Writing Workshop	Semester / 1	Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH	Taylor Hall D	Ladva,N.
ENGL B125-004	Writing Workshop	Semester / 1	Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH	Taylor Hall B	Ruben,M.
ENGL B125-005	Writing Workshop	Semester / 1	Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH	Taylor Hall C	Todd,J.
ENGL B127-001	Workshop for Multilingual Writers (Advanced)	Semester / 0.5	Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM F	English House II	Litsinger,B.
ENGL B202-002	Understanding Poetry	Semester / 1	Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH	English House II	Hedley,J.
ENGL B205-001	Introduction to Film	Semester / 1	Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW	Carpenter Library 21	Nguyen,H.
			Film: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM M	Carpenter Library 21
ENGL B230-001	Topics in American Drama	Semester / 1	Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH	English House I	Hemmeter,G.
ENGL B234-001	Postcolonial Literature in English	Semester / 1	Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH	Taylor Hall E	Tratner,M.
ENGL B237-001	Latino Dictator Novel in Americas	Semester / 1	Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW	Thomas Hall 104	Harford Vargas,J.
ENGL B250-001	Methods of Literary Study	Semester / 1	Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW	English House II	Schneider,B.
ENGL B250-002	Methods of Literary Study	Semester / 1	Lecture: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM TTH	English House II	Tratner,M.
ENGL B260-001	Interdisciplinary Approaches to German Literature and Culture	Semester / 1	Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW	Taylor Hall, Seminar Room	Meyer,I.
ENGL B264-001	Focus: Black Bards: Poetry in the Diaspora	Semester / 0.5,1	Lecture: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM TTH	English House I	Beard,L.
ENGL B277-001	Nabokov in Translation	Semester / 1	Lecture: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM TTH	Taylor Hall F	Harte,T.
ENGL B288-001	The Novel	Semester / 1	Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH	English House I	Ricketts,R.
ENGL B299-001	History of Narrative Cinema, 1945 to the Present	Semester / 1	Lecture: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM TTH	Carpenter Library 21	King,H.
			Film: 7:00 PM- 9:00 PM M	Thomas Hall 110
ENGL B345-001	Topics in Narrative Theory: Realism	Semester / 1	Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH	English House II	Ricketts,R.
ENGL B378-001	Eating Culture: Food and Britain 1798 to 1929	Semester / 1	Lecture: Date/Time TBA

2013-14 Catalog Data

ENGL B125 Writing Workshop
Section 002 (Spring 2013): Science Focus Spring 2014 This course offers students who have already taken an Emily Balch Seminar an opportunity to develop their skills as college writers. Through frequent practice, class discussion, and in-class collaborative activity, students will become familiar with all aspects of the writing process and will develop their ability to write for an academic audience. The class will address a number of writing issues: formulating questions; analyzing purpose; generating ideas; structuring and supporting arguments; marshalling evidence; using sources effectively; and developing a clear, flexible academic voice. Students will meet regularly with the course instructor, individually and in small groups, to discuss their work. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI)

ENGL B126 Workshop for Multilingual Writers Fall 2013 This course offers non-native speakers of English a chance to develop their skills as college writers. Through frequent practice, class discussion, and in-class collaborative activity, students will become familiar with the writing process and will learn to write for an academic audience. Student writers in the class will be guided through the steps of composing and revising college essays: formulating questions; analyzing purpose; generating ideas; structuring and supporting arguments; marshalling evidence; using sources effectively; and developing a clear, flexible academic voice. Writers will receive frequent feedback from peers and the instructor.

ENGL B127 Workshop for Multilingual Writers (Advanced) Fall 2013, Spring 2014 This course, which may be taken in place of or after English 126, offers more advanced instruction in writing essays in English. Designed for students who have some experience writing academic papers, English 127 helps students develop their argumentation technique and produce more sophisticated college-level essays. Students will practice writing for various academic audience, will refine their ability to use written sources to effectively support claims, and will improve their style in English. Writers will receive frequent feedback and individualized instruction. Students will be referred to English 127 on the advice of Writing Program instructors. Prerequisites: Placement in either the existing ENGL 126 or this new course, ENGL 127, will be done on the basis of a writing sample.

ENGL B193 Critical Feminist Studies Fall 2013 Combines the study of specific literary texts with larger questions about feminist forms of theorizing: three fictional texts will be supplemented by a wide range of essays. Students will review current scholarship, identify their own stake in the conversation, and define a critical question they want to pursue at length. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B202 Understanding Poetry Spring 2014 This course is for students who wish to develop their skills in reading and writing critically about poetry. The course will provide grounding in the traditional skills of prosody (i.e., reading accentual, syllabic, and accentual-syllabic verse) as well as tactics for reading and understanding the breath-based or image-based prosody of free verse. Lyric, narrative, and dramatic poetry will be discussed and differentiated. We will be using close reading and oral performance to highlight the unique fusion of language, rhythm (sound), and image that makes poetry different from prose. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI)

ENGL B205 Introduction to Film Spring 2014 This course is intended to provide students with the tools of critical film analysis. Through readings of images and sounds, sections of films and entire narratives, students will cultivate the habits of critical viewing and establish a foundation for focused work in film studies. The course introduces formal and technical units of cinematic meaning and categories of genre and history that add up to the experiences and meanings we call cinema. Although much of the course material will focus on the Hollywood style of film, examples will be drawn from the history of cinema. Attendance at weekly screenings is mandatory. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as HART B205 Counts toward Film Studies

ENGL B209 Literary Kinds Not offered 2013-14 Beginning with a biological evolutionary model, we examine a range of explanations for how and why new genres evolve. Readings will consist of critical accounts of genre; three hybrid novel forms will serve as imaginative test cases for these concepts. Students will identify, compare, and write an exemplar of a genre that interests them. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI)

ENGL B210 Renaissance Literature: Performances of Gender Not offered 2013-14 Readings chosen to highlight the construction and performance of gender identity during the period from 1550 to 1650 and the ways in which the gender anxieties of 16th- and 17th-century men and women differ from, yet speak to, our own. Texts will include plays, poems, prose fiction, diaries, and polemical writing of the period. Division III: Humanities Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the Humanities
Section 001 (Fall 2013): Rhetoric and Interpretation after Post-Modernism Fall 2013 An examination in English of leading theories of interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course content varies. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as ITAL B213 Cross-listed as RUSS B253 Cross-listed as PHIL B253

ENGL B217 Narratives of Latinidad Fall 2013 This course explores how Latina/o writers fashion bicultural and transnational identities and narrate the intertwined histories of the U.S. and Latin America. We will focus on topics of shared concern among Latino groups such as imperialism and annexation, the affective experience of migration, race and gender stereotypes, the politics of Spanglish, and struggles for social justice. By analyzing novels, poetry, performance art, testimonial narratives, films, and essays, we will unpack the complexity of Latinadad in the Americas. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as SPAN B217 Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures

ENGL B219 Facing the Facts/Essaying the Subjective Fall 2013 Nonfictional prose genres, which may well constitute the majority of all that has been written, are very seldom the focus of literature courses. This class will address that gap, by exploring the use-value of the category of non-fictional prose in organizing our experience of, and our thinking about, literature. Might our attending to such texts alter our sense of what literature is? Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI)

ENGL B220 Writing in Theory/Writing in Practice Fall 2013 This Praxis course is designed for students interested in teaching or tutoring writing at the high-school or college level. The course focuses on understanding the relationship between high school and college-level writing. Readings focus on the theory and pedagogy of writing, on literacy issues, and on writing culture. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as EDUC B219 Counts toward Praxis Program

ENGL B223 The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories Not offered 2013-14 In this course we will experiment with two interrelated and reciprocal inquiries--whether the biological concept of evolution is a useful one in understanding the phenomena of literature (in particular, the generation of new stories), and whether literature contributes to a deeper understanding of evolution. We will begin with science texts that explain and explore evolution and turn to stories that (may) have grown out of one another, asking where they come from, why new ones emerge, and why some disappear. We will consider the parallels between diversity of stories and diversity of living organisms. Lecture three hours a week. Division II or Division III Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as BIOL B223

ENGL B225 Shakespeare Not offered 2013-14 This introductory seminar explores Shakespeare's language, sources, print and stage history, and cultural geography. We'll study form and performance, race and nationhood, authority and intimacy, gender and servitude, adaptation and revival. Playgoing and screenings outside of class are required. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI)

ENGL B228 Silence: The Rhetorics of Class, Gender, Culture, Religion Not offered 2013-14 This course will consider silence as a rhetorical art and political act, an imaginative space and expressive power that can serve many functions, including that of opening new possibilities among us. We will share our own experiences of silence, re-thinking them through the lenses of how it is explained in philosophy, enacted in classrooms and performed by various genders, cultures, and religions. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Praxis Program

ENGL B230 Topics in American Drama Spring 2014 Considers American plays of the 20th century, reading major playwrights of the canon alongside other dramatists who were less often read and produced. Will also study later 20th century dramatists whose plays both develop and resist the complex foundation established by canonical American playwrights and how American drama reflects and responds to cultural and political shifts. Considers how modern American identity has been constructed through dramatic performance, considering both written and performed versions of these plays. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as ARTT B230

ENGL B233 Spenser and Milton Not offered 2013-14 The course is equally divided between Spenser's Faerie Queene and Milton's Paradise Lost, with additional short readings from each poet's other work. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI)

ENGL B234 Postcolonial Literature in English Spring 2014 This course will survey a broad range of novels and poems written while countries were breaking free of British colonial rule. Readings will also include cultural theorists interested in defining literary issues that arise from the postcolonial situation. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as COML B234 Counts toward Africana Studies

ENGL B235 Reading Popular Culture: Freaks Not offered 2013-14 This course traces the iconic figure of the "freak" in American culture, from 19th c. sideshows to the present. Featuring literature and films that explore "extraordinary Others", we will flesh out the ways in which our current understandings of gender, sexuality, normalcy, and race are constituted through images of "abnormality." Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B237 Latino Dictator Novel in Americas Spring 2014 This course examines representations of dictatorship in Latin American and Latina/o novels. We will explore the relationship between narrative form and absolute power by analyzing the literary techniques writers use to contest authoritarianism. We will compare dictator novels from the United States, the Caribbean, Central America, and the Southern Cone. Prerequisite: only for students wishing to take the course for major/minor credit in SPAN is SPAN B200/B202. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as SPAN B237 Cross-listed as COML B237 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures

ENGL B238 Topics: The History of Cinema 1895 to 1945
Section 001 (Fall 2013): Silent Film: From U.S. to Soviet Russia& Beyond Fall 2013 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Division III: Humanities Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as RUSS B238 Cross-listed as HART B238 Counts toward Film Studies

ENGL B240 Wit and Witness: English Literature 1660-1744 Fall 2013 The rise of new literary genres and the contemporary efforts to find new definitions of heroism and wit, good taste and good manners, sin and salvation, individual identity and social responsibility, and the pressure exerted by changing social, intellectual and political contexts of literature. Readings from Defoe, Dryden, early feminist writers, Pope, Restoration dramatists and Swift. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI)

ENGL B242 Historical Introduction to English Poetry I Fall 2013 This course traces the development of English poetry from 1360 to 1700, emphasizing forms, themes, and conventions that have become part of the continuing vocabulary of poetry, and exploring the strengths and limitations of different strategies of interpretation. Featured poets: Chaucer, Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI)

ENGL B243 Historical Introduction to English Poetry II Not offered 2013-14 The development of English poetry from 1700 to the present. This course is a continuation of ENGL 242 but can be taken independently. Featured poets: Wordsworth, Browning, Christina Rossetti, Yeats, Heaney, Walcott. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI)

ENGL B245 Focus: "I remember Harlem" Not offered 2013-14 A transdisciplinary study of the famous Black metropolis as a historic, geo-political, and cultural center (from the Jazz Age to the Hip Hop revolution) this course acknowledges 400 years of history and analyzes the contemporary gentrification of Harlem. We interrogate closely the seismic changes in "Harlem" as a signifier. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Africana Studies

ENGL B246 Medievalisms Not offered 2013-14 This course assesses how the "Middle Ages" has been and continues to be constructed as a period of history, an object of inquiry, and a category of analysis. It considers how the past is formulated and called upon to conduct the ideological and cultural work of the present, and it reads historical documents and literary texts in dialogue with one another. Division III: Humanities Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as HIST B246

ENGL B247 Multilingual Shakespeare Not offered 2013-14 This course explores recent theater experiments in translation, multilingual and cross-language performance, with Shakespeare as its test field. Works studied include: Hamlet and The Tempest; recent performances taped in London, Tokyo, and Cairo; selected critical essays on transnationalism, vernacularism, performance, and translation. Prerequisites: Course work on Shakespeare OR translational literature and culture strongly encouraged. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

ENGL B250 Methods of Literary Study Fall 2013, Spring 2014 We will explore the power of language in a variety of linguistic, historical, disciplinary, social, and cultural contexts, focusing on the power of the written word to provide a foundational basis for the critical and creative analysis of literary studies. This course will help to broaden our ideas of what texts and language accomplish socially, historically, and aesthetically. Students will thus refine their faculties of reading closely, writing incisively and passionately, asking productive questions, producing their own compelling interpretations, and listening to the insights offered by others. Limited to sophomores and juniors. Division III: Humanities

ENGL B251 Food for Thought: Gastronomic Literatures and Philosophies Not offered 2013-14 Through the lens of "food and text," this course will trace the philosophy of food and the history of food writing. We will study how food has been written about and how food writing has responded to and played a role in cultural change. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Environmental Studies

ENGL B253 Romanticism Not offered 2013-14 Through an emphasis on Romanticism's history and its readers, this course will explore the Romantic movement in English literature, from its roots in Enlightenment thought and the Gothic to contemporary visions of Romanticism. By reading over the shoulders of writers such as Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Tom Stoppard, the course will explore fiction, prose, and especially poetry of the period 1745 to 1848. While these years mark revolution and expansion in almost every cultural sphere in Europe, America, and the Caribbean--politics, the arts, literature, and science--writers looked inward to the thoughts and passions of individuals as they never had before. Readings will also include poetry and prose by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Charlotte Smith, among others. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI)

ENGL B254 American Literature 1750-1900 Not offered 2013-14 This course explores the subject, subjection, and subjectivity of women and female sexualities in U.S. literatures between the signing of the Constitution and the ratification of the 19th Amendment. While the representation of women in fiction grew and the number of female authors soared, the culture found itself at pains to define the appropriate moments for female speech and silence, action and passivity. We will engage a variety of pre-suffrage literatures that place women at the nexus of national narratives of slavery and freedom, foreignness and domesticity, wealth and power, masculinity and citizenship, and sex and race "purity." Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B256 Milton and Dissent Not offered 2013-14 John Milton's epic poem, "Paradise Lost," was written during a period of cultural turmoil and innovation. This renaissance poem has helped shape the way later writers understand their profession, especially their obligation to foster dissent as a readerly practice. Exploring this legacy, readings interleave "Paradise Lost" and Milton's political writings with responses by later revolutionary writers, from Blake to Philip Pullman. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI)

ENGL B257 Gender and Technology Not offered 2013-14 Explores the historical role technology has played in the production of gender; the historical role gender has played in the evolution of various technologies; how the co-construction of gender and technology has been represented in a range of on-line, filmic, fictional, and critical media; and what all of the above suggest for the technological engagement of everyone in today's world. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as CMSC B257 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B258 Finding Knowledge Between the Leaves: 19th-Century Literature of Education Not offered 2013-14 This class will examine innovative extra-institutional methods and spaces of learning. We will explore a genealogy of unconventional and progressive models of instruction found in imaginative literature, in personal letters, and in material culture. Our readings will range from novels by Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Louisa May Alcott to poetry and letters by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to personal narratives by Henry David Thoreau and Booker T. Washington. Division I or Division III Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as EDUC B258

ENGL B259 Victorian Literature and Culture Not offered 2013-14 Examines a broad range of Victorian poetry, prose, and fiction in the context of the cultural practices, social institutions, and critical thought of the time. Of particular interest are the revisions of gender, sexuality, class, nation, race, empire, and public and private life that occurred during this period. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI)

ENGL B260 Interdisciplinary Approaches to German Literature and Culture
Section 001 (Spring 2013): A History of Queer Bodies Spring 2014 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Taught in English. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as GERM B245 Cross-listed as COML B245 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B261 Topics: Film and the German Literary Imagination
Section 001 (Fall 2012): Coming of Age: Picturing the Time of Childhood in Not offered 2013-14 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as GERM B262 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies

ENGL B262 Survey in African American Literature Not offered 2013-14 Pairing canonical African American fiction with theoretical, popular, and filmic texts from the late-19th Century through to the present day, we will address the ways in which the Black body, as cultural text, has come to be both constructed and consumed within the nation's imagination and our modern visual regime. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Africana Studies

ENGL B263 Toni Morrison and the Art of Narrative Conjure Not offered 2013-14 All of Morrison's primary imaginative texts, in publication order, as well as essays by Morrison, with a series of critical lenses that explore several vantages for reading a conjured narration. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B264 Focus: Black Bards: Poetry in the Diaspora Spring 2014 An interrogation of poetric utterance in works of the African diaspora, primarily in English, this course addresses a multiplicity of genres, including epic, lyric, sonnet, rap, and mimetic jazz. The development of poetic theories at key moments such as the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement will be explored. Prerequisite: Any course in poetry or African/American literature. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Africana Studies

ENGL B266 Travel and Transgression Not offered 2013-14 Examines ancient and medieval travel literature, exploring movement and cultural exchange, from otherworld odysseys and religious pilgrimages to trade expeditions and explorations across the Atlantic. Mercantile documents, maps, pilgrim's logbooks, and theoretical and anthropological discussions of place, colonization, and identity-formation will supplement our literary analysis. Emphasizes how those of the Middle Ages understood encounters with "alien" cultures, symbolic representations of space, and the development of national identities, exploring their influence on contemporary debates surrounding racial, cultural, religious, and national boundaries. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as COML B266

ENGL B268 Native Soil and American Literature:1492-1900 Fall 2013 This course will consider the literature of contact and conflict between English-speaking whites and Native Americans between the years 1492 and 1920. We will focus on how these cultures understood the meaning and uses of land, and the effects of these literatures of encounter upon American land and ecology and vice-versa. Texts will include works by Native, European- and African-American writers, and may include texts by Christopher Columbus, John Smith, William Bradford, Handsome Lake, Samson Occom, Lydia Maria Child, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, John Rollin Ridge, Mark Twain, Mourning Dove, Ella Deloria and Willa Cather. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Environmental Studies

ENGL B269 Vile Bodies in Medieval Literature Not offered 2013-14 The Middle Ages imagined the physical body as the site of moral triumph and failure and as the canvas to expose social ills. The course examines medical tracts, saint's lives, poetry, theological texts, and representations of the Passion. Discussion topics range from plague and mercantilism to the legal and religious depiction of torture. Texts by Boccaccio, Chaucer, Dante, and Kempe will be supplemented with contemporary readings on trauma theory and embodiment. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B270 American Girl: Childhood in U.S. Literatures, 1690-1935 Not offered 2013-14 This course will focus on the "American Girl" as a particularly contested model for the nascent American. Through examination of religious tracts, slave and captivity narratives, literatures for children and adult literatures about childhood, we will analyze U. S. investments in girlhood as a site for national self-fashioning. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B272 Queer of Color Critique Fall 2013 Queer of color critique (QoCC) is a mode of criticism with roots in women of color feminism, post-structuralism, critical race theory, and queer studies. QoCC focuses on "intersectional" analyses. That is, QoCC seeks to integrate studies of race, sexuality, gender, class, and nationalism, and to show how these categories are co-constitutive. In so doing, QoCC contends that a focus on gay rights or reliance on academic discourse is too narrow. QoCC therefore addresses a wide set of issues from beauty standards to terrorism and questions the very idea of "normal." This course introduces students to the ideas of QoCC through key literary and film texts. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B276 Transnational American Literature Not offered 2013-14 This course asks students to re-imagine "American" literature through a transnational framework. We will explore what paradigms are useful for conceptualizing U.S. literature given shared political histories, aesthetic modes, racial discourses, and patterns of migration in the hemisphere. Reading canonical Anglo American writers alongside ethnic minority writers, we will examine how their aesthetic engagements and cultural entanglements with Latin America transform our understanding of what constitutes a national literary tradition. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures

ENGL B277 Nabokov in Translation Spring 2014 A study of Vladimir Nabokov's writings in various genres, focusing on his fiction and autobiographical works. The continuity between Nabokov's Russian and English works is considered in the context of the Russian and Western literary traditions. All readings and lectures in English. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as RUSS B277

ENGL B279 Introduction to African Literature Not offered 2013-14 Taking into account the oral, written, aural and visual forms of African "texts" over several thousand years, this course will explore literary production, translation and audience/critical reception. Representative works to be studied include oral traditions, the Sundiata Epic, Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah, Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments, Mariama Bâ's Si Longe une Lettre, Tsitsi Danga-rembga's Nervous Conditions, Bessie Head's Maru, Sembène Ousmane's Xala, plays by Wole Soyinka and his Burden of History, The Muse of Forgiveness and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat. We will address the "transliteration" of Christian and Muslim languages and theologies in these works. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as COML B279 Counts toward Africana Studies

ENGL B280 Video Practices: From Analog to Digital Not offered 2013-14 This course explores the history and theory of video art from the late 1960's to the present. The units include: aesthetics; activisim; access; performance; and institutional critique. We will reflect on early video's "utopian moment" and its manifestation in the current new media revolution. Feminist, people of color and queer productions will constitute the majority of our corpus. Prerequisite: ENGL/HART B205 Intro to Film or consent of the instructor. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as HART B280 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies

ENGL B284 Women Poets: Giving Eurydice a Voice Not offered 2013-14 This course covers English and American woman poets of the 19th and 20th centuries whose gender was important for their self-understanding as poets, their choice of subject matter, and the audience they sought to gain for their work. Featured poets include Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lucille Clifton, H.D., Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Christina Rossetti, Anne Sexton, and Gertrude Stein. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B288 The Novel Spring 2014 This course will explore the multi-vocal origins of the novel in English and the ways in which its rapid development parallels changes in reading, vision, thought, and self-perception. The course will trace the novel's evolution from its 17th-century beginnings in romance, spiritual autobiography, and travel literature; through its emergence as a middle-class mode of expression in the 18th century; to its period of cultural dominance in the Victorian era; and to modernist and postmodern experimentation. In studying the novel's historical, cultural, and formal dimensions, the course will discuss the significance of realism, parody, characters, authorship, and the reader. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI)

ENGL B290 Modernisms Not offered 2013-14 Between the two world wars--1918--1939--a revolution occurred in literature that is called "Modernism." While the phenomenon was worldwide, this course will focus on the major British writers of the period, novelists Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, E.M.Forster, and poets W.H.Auden, T.S.Eliot, and William Butler Yeats. Their work is experimental, demanding, and idiosyncratic. We will strive to define what they have in common, what historical, social, and scientific developments they are responding to, and why they wrote what they did. Kipling and Smith will help us contextualize their work as a response to what came before and a major influence on much more recent work. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI)

ENGL B292 The Play of Interpretation Fall 2013 Designated theory course. A study of the methodologies and regimes of interpretation in the arts, humanistic sciences, and media and cultural studies, this course focuses on common problems of text, authorship, reader/spectator, and translation in their historical and formal contexts. Literary, oral, and visual texts from different cultural traditions and histories will be studied through interpretive approaches informed by modern critical theories. Readings in literature, philosophy, popular culture, and film will illustrate how theory enhances our understanding of the complexities of history, memory, identity, and the trials of modernity. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as COML B293 Cross-listed as PHIL B293 Counts toward International Studies Minor

ENGL B297 Terror, Pleasure, and the Gothic Imagination Not offered 2013-14 Introduces students to the 18th-century origins of Gothic literature and its development across genres, media and time. Exploring the formal contours and cultural contexts of the enduring imaginative mode in literature, film, art, and architecture, the course will also investigate the Gothic's connection to the radical and conservative cultural agendas. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B299 History of Narrative Cinema, 1945 to the Present Spring 2014 This course surveys the history of narrative film from 1945 through contemporary cinema. We will analyze a chronological series of styles and national cinemas, including Classical Hollywood, Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, and other post-war movements and genres. Viewings of canonical films will be supplemented by more recent examples of global cinema. While historical in approach, this course emphasizes the theory and criticism of the sound film, and we will consider various methodological approaches to the aesthetic, socio-political, and psychological dimensions of cinema. Readings will provide historical context, and will introduce students to key concepts in film studies such as realism, formalism, spectatorship, the auteur theory, and genre studies. Fulfills the history requirement or the introductory course requirement for the Film Studies minor. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as HART B299 Counts toward Film Studies

ENGL B303 Piers Plowman Not offered 2013-14 A contemporary of Chaucer, William Langland dedicated his life to writing and rewriting a moving poem that questions the relationship between artistic expression, social activism, and spiritual healing. We will read his great text, Piers Plowman, both as our subject and point of departure for thinking about the literary, political, and religious cultures in late 14th- and early 15th-century England. In addition, we will contextualize the poem using selections from penitential manuals, legal documents, treatises on translation, and rebel broadsides, as well as texts by contemporary authors (including Chaucer, Gower and Lydgate). Division III: Humanities

ENGL B309 Native American Literature Not offered 2013-14 This course focuses on late-20th-century Native literatures that attempt to remember and redress earlier histories of dispersal and genocide. We will ask how various writers with different tribal affiliations engage in discourses of humor, memory, repetition, and cultural performance to refuse, rework, or lampoon inherited constructions of the "Indian" and "Indian" history and culture. We will read fiction, film, and contemporary critical approaches to Native literatures alongside much earlier texts, including oral histories, political speeches, law, and autobiography. Readings may include works by Sherman Alexie, Diane Glancy, Thomas King, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Gerald Vizenor. Division III: Humanities

ENGL B311 Renaissance Lyric Not offered 2013-14 For roughly half the semester we will focus on the sonnet, a form that was domesticated in England during the sixteenth century. The other half of the course will focus on the "metaphysical" poetry of John Donne, George Herbert, and Andrew Marvell. There will be a strong component of critical and theoretical reading to contextualize the poetry, model ways of reading it, and raise questions about its social, political and religious purposes. Division III: Humanities

ENGL B314 Troilus and Criseyde Not offered 2013-14 Examines Chaucer's magisterial Troilus and Criseyde, his epic romance of love, loss, and betrayal. We will supplement sustained analysis of the poem with primary readings on free will and courtly love as well as theoretical readings on gender and sexuality and translation. We will also read Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Cross-listed as COML B314 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B315 Experimental Fictions, 1675 to 1800 Not offered 2013-14 This course will examine a deliberately eclectic set of readings, mostly in prose, in order to explore different dimensions--aesthetic, social, psychological, substantive--of 18th-century creativity. Readings will range from Bunyan and Defoe to Fielding and Sterne, from Aphra Behn to William Hogarth to Frances Burney. Division III: Humanities

ENGL B322 Love and Money Not offered 2013-14 This course focuses on literary works that explore the relationship between love and money. We will seek to understand the separate and intertwined histories of these two arenas of human behavior and will read, along with literary texts, essays by influential figures in the history of economics and sexuality. The course will begin with The Merchant of Venice, proceed through Pride and Prejudice to The Great Gatsby, and end with Hollywood movies. Division III: Humanities

ENGL B323 Movies, Fascism, and Communism Not offered 2013-14 Movies and mass politics emerged together, altering entertainment and government in strangely similar ways. Fascism and communism claimed an inherent relation to the masses and hence to movies; Hollywood rejected such claims. We will examine films alluding to fascism or communism, to understand them as commenting on political debates and on the mass experience of movie going. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Film Studies

ENGL B324 Topics in Shakespeare: Shakespeare on Film Not offered 2013-14 Films and play texts vary from year to year. The course assumes significant prior experience of Shakespearean drama and/or Renaissance drama. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Film Studies

ENGL B332 Novelas de las Américas Fall 2013 What do we gain by reading a Latin American or a US novel as "American" in the continental sense? What do we learn by comparing novels from "this" America to classics of the "other" Americas? Can we find through this Panamericanist perspective common aesthetics, interests, conflicts? In this course we will explore these questions by connecting and comparing major US novels with Latin American classics of the 20th and 21st century. We will read these works in clusters to illuminate aesthetic, political and cultural resonances and affinities. Prerequisites: SPAN B110 and/or SPAN B120 and a 200-level course in Spanish. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as SPAN B332 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures

ENGL B333 Lesbian Immortal Not offered 2013-14 Lesbian literature has repeatedly figured itself in alliance with tropes of immortality and eternity. Using recent queer theory on temporality, and 19th and 20th century primary texts, we will explore topics such as: fame and noteriety; feminism and mythology; epistemes, erotics and sexual seasonality; the death drive and the uncanny; fin de siecle manias for mummies and seances. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B334 Topics in Film Studies
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Curating Film: Festivals, Nationalism and Revoluti
Section 001 (Fall 2012): Global Queer Cinema Fall 2013 This is a topics course. Content varies.
Current topic description: This course examines contemporary cinematic images produced in Middle Eastern and Arab countries and in their Diasporas. In his groundbreaking text Orientalism, Edward Said argued that Western representations of the "East" are constructed through an inverted mirror reflection of the West. Grounded in postcolonial theory and film studies, students will explore the role of cultural formation through moving image production and circulation. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as HART B334 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies

ENGL B336 Topics in Film
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Found Footage Film Not offered 2013-14 This course examines experimental film and video from the 1930's to present. It will concentrate on the use of found footage: the reworking of existing imagery in order to generate new aesthetic frameworks and cultural meanings. Key issues to be explored include copyright, piracy, archive, activism, affect, aesthetics, interactivity and fandom. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as HART B336 Counts toward Film Studies

ENGL B345 Topics in Narrative Theory
Section 001 (Spring 2014): Realism
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Theory of the Ethnic Novel Spring 2014 This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: Students in this course will explore the history of literary "realism" and the development of the verisimilitude we take for granted in prose today. Whether they aimed to portray real life vividly or describe made-up worlds realistically, many authors exploited the blurry boundary between factual and fictional writing, between storytelling and reporting. Course texts will include essays, novels, plays, and short stories from a range of British and American literary traditions. Cross-listed as COML B345 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures

ENGL B346 Theories of Modernism Not offered 2013-14 This course will investigate a wide range of works that have been labeled "modernist" in order to raise the question, "Was there one modernism or were there many disparate and competing ones?" Division III: Humanities Counts toward Africana Studies

ENGL B351 Jane Austen: Contexts, Criticism, Adaptations Not offered 2013-14 This course will engage upper-level students in a close and rigorous examination of the writing of Jane Austen in its cultural contexts, as well as critical responses to and re-envisionings of her works. Situating her writing in the tradition of the "novel of manners," the course will explore the roots of Austen's work in earlier literary forms--the romance, the "true history," the novel of sentiment, and the gothic novel--many of which Austen herself read. We'll then interpret her works in the light of critical perspectives that reveal connections between the form and cultural contexts of Austen's work: formalist approaches; feminism, gender, and queer theory; postcolonialism; and cultural studies. The bulk of the reading will be from Austen's own corpus of novels, and also include works like Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison, Frances Burney's Evelina, Henry MacKenzie's The Man of Feeling, Ann Radcliffe's Sicilian Romance, and the poetry of Byron. We'll end by exploring several modern novelistic and film adaptations. Work for the course will include frequent short papers and in-class presentations, a mid-term essay, and a substantial final paper. Critical Interpretation (CI)

ENGL B353 Queer Diasporas: Empire, Desire, and the Politics of Placement Not offered 2013-14 Looking at fiction and film from the U.S. and abroad through the lenses of sexuality studies and queer theory, we will explore the ways that both current and past configurations of sexual, racial, and cultural personhood have inflected, infringed upon, and opened up spaces of local/global citizenship and belonging. Prerequisites: An introductory course in film, or GNST B290, or ENGL B250. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies

ENGL B354 Virginia Woolf Fall 2013 Virginia Woolf has been interpreted as a feminist, a modernist, a crazy person, a resident of Bloomsbury, a victim of child abuse, a snob, a socialist, and a creation of literary and popular history. We will try out all these approaches and examine the features of our contemporary world that influence the way Woolf, her work, and her era are perceived. We will also attempt to theorize about why we favor certain interpretations over others. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B356 Endgames: Theater of Samuel Beckett Not offered 2013-14 An exploration of Beckett's theater work conducted through both reading and practical exercises in performance techniques. Points of special interest include the monologue form of the early novels and its translation into theater, Beckett's influences (particularly silent film) and collaborations, and the relationship between the texts of the major dramatic works and the development of both modern and postmodern performance techniques. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as ARTT B356

ENGL B359 Dead Presidents Fall 2013 Framed by the extravagant funerals of Presidents Washington and Lincoln, this course explores the cultural importance of the figure of the President and the Presidential body, and of the 19th-century preoccupations with death and mourning, in the U.S. cultural imaginary from the Revolutionary movement through the Civil War. Division III: Humanities

ENGL B364 Slum Fiction Not offered 2013-14 David Simon's acclaimed television show The Wire has repeatedly been related to the Victorian novel. This course links Victorian London and 20th-century Baltimore by studying: literary relations between Dickens and Poe; slum writing; the rise of the state institution; a genealogy of serial fiction from the nineteenth century novel to television drama. Division III: Humanities

ENGL B365 Erotica: Love and Art in Plato and Shakespeare Not offered 2013-14 The course explores the relationship between love and art, "eros" and "poesis," through in-depth study of Plato's "Phaedus" and "Symposium," Shakespeare's "As You Like It" and "Antony and Cleopatra," and essays by modern commentators (including David Halperin, Anne Carson, Martha Nussbaum, Marjorie Garber, and Stanley Cavell). We will also read Shakespeare's Sonnets and "Romeo and Juliet." Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as POLS B365 Cross-listed as PHIL B365 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B367 Asian American Film Video and New Media Not offered 2013-14 The course explores the role of pleasure in the production, reception, and performance of Asian American identities in film, video, and the internet, taking as its focus the sexual representation of Asian Americans in works produced by Asian American artists from 1915 to present. In several units of the course, we will study graphic sexual representations, including pornographic images and sex acts some may find objectionable. Students should be prepared to engage analytically with all class material. To maintain an atmosphere of mutual respect and solidarity among the participants in the class, no auditors will be allowed. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as HART B367 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies

ENGL B369 Women Poets: Gwendolyn Brooks, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath Not offered 2013-14 In this seminar we will be playing three poets off against each other, all of whom came of age during the 1950s. We will plot each poet's career in relation to the public and personal crises that shaped it, giving particular attention to how each poet constructed "poethood" for herself. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B373 Masculinity in English Literature: From Chivalry to Civility Fall 2013 This course will examine images and concepts of masculinity as represented in a wide variety of texts in English. Beginning in the early modern period and ending with our own time, the course will focus on texts of the "long" 18th century to contextualize the relationships between masculinity and chivalry, civility, manliness, and femininity. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B377 James Joyce Not offered 2013-14 Joyce's works lend themselves particularly well to critical disagreements: he has been called the most pessimistic nihilist and the greatest optimist; a misogynist and a radical feminist; a true Catholic and a great Jewish writer; the worst of elitists and a celebrator of the common man; a fascist and a socialist; the most boring writer and the writer providing the most intense, orgasmic pleasures. We will read one novel but that journey will be broken up with forays into Joyce's earlier works. Division III: Humanities

ENGL B378 Eating Culture: Food and Britain 1798 to 1929 Spring 2014 This class will explore British culinary culture across the long 19th century. One of our main goals will be to explore the role of matters culinary in the ordering and Othering of the world and its populations. We will pay particular attention to the relationship of food to 19th-century class and labor relations, colonial and imperial discourse, and analyze how food both traces and guides global networks of power, politics and trade. We will work towards theorizing food's materiality, considering the physiognomy of food, the aesthetics of a menu, and the hermeneutics of taste. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B379 The African Griot(te) Fall 2013 A focused exploration of the multi-genre productions of Southern African writer Bessie Head and the critical responses to such works. Students are asked to help construct a critical-theoretical framework for talking about a writer who defies categorization or reduction. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

ENGL B385 Problems in Satire Not offered 2013-14 An exploration of the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of great satire in works by Blake, Dryden, Pope, Rabelais, Smiley, Swift, Wilde, and others. Division III: Humanities

ENGL B388 Contemporary African Fiction Not offered 2013-14 Noting that the official colonial independence of most African countries dates back only half a century, this course focuses on the fictive experiments of the most recent decade. A few highly controversial works from the 90's serve as an introduction to very recent work. Most works are in English. To experience depth as well as breadth, there is a small cluster of works from South Africa. With novels and tales from elsewhere on the huge African continent, we will get a glimpse of "living in the present" in history and letters. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as COML B388 Counts toward Africana Studies

ENGL B398 Senior Seminar Required preparation for ENGL 399 (Senior Essay). Through weekly seminar meetings and regular writing and research assignments, students will design a senior essay topic or topics of their choice, frame exciting and practical questions about it, and develop a writing plan for its execution. Students will leave the course with a departmentally approved senior essay prospectus, an annotated bibliography on their chosen area of inquiry, and 10 pages of writing towards their senior essay. Students must pass the course to enroll in ENGL 399.

ENGL B399 Senior Essay Supervised independent writing project required of all English majors. Students must successfully complete ENGL 398 (Senior Conference) and have their Senior Essay prospectus approved by the department before they enroll in ENGL 399.

ENGL B403 Supervised Work Advanced students may pursue independent research projects. Permission of the instructor and major adviser is required.

ENGL B425 Praxis III Counts toward Praxis Program

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