DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH GRADUATE LANGUAGE, HANDBOOK LITERATURE & 2018-2019 CREATIVE WRITING 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR 4
LIBRARY RESOURCES 4
THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH 5
IN-HOUSE PUBLICATIONS 5
WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE 5
READING SERIES 5
THE M.A. IN ENGLISH
M.A.: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 6
M.A.: CREATIVE WRITING AND LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 7
THESIS AND PROJECT DEADLINES 8
SCHOLARSHIP AND THE PROFESSION 8
NON-ENGLISH COURSES 8
DURATION OF STUDY AND TIME TO COMPLETION 8
ADMISSION TO GRADUATE STUDIES IN ENGLISH
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS 9
APPLICATION MATERIALS 9
APPLICATION DEADLINES 10
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
ENTRANCE SCHOLARSHIPS 11
EXTERNAL SCHOLARSHIPS 11
INTERNAL AWARDS 12 3
GRADUATE ASSISTANTSHIPS 13
GRADUATE COURSES
GRADUATE SEMINARS 13
GRADING 13
LIST OF GRADUATE SEMINARS 14
2018-2019 PROPOSED GRADUATE SEMINARS
INTERSESSION 2018
0126-550: LITERATURE OF THE 20TH CENTURY 15
FALL 2018
0126-525: TOPICS IN RENAISSANCE DRAMA 16
0126-535: LITERATURE OF RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 17
0126-596: COMPOSITION PEDAGOGY- THEORY AND PRACTICE 18
WINTER 2019
0126-555: AMERICAN LITERATURE 19
0126-570: LITERARY GENRES- POETRY 21
FALL 2018 & WINTER 2019
0126-591/592: CREATIVE WRITING SEMINAR A&B 22
ENGLISH GRADUATE FACULTY 23
CONTACT INFORMATION 24 4
INTRODUCTION
THE UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR
Situated at the western end of Lake St. Clair, on the Detroit River, the University of Windsor is Canada’s southernmost university. The strategic location on the Canada-U.S. border at the centre of the Great Lakes- and in the manufacturing heartland of North America- provides a special focus for academic research initiatives in such area as the environment, the automotive sector, and social justice. The rich literary and cultural heritage of the region is a boon to researchers and writers alike. Founded in 1857 as Assumption College and chartered as a public university in 1963, the University of Windsor has evolved into a comprehensive, mid-sized university offering a broad range of undergraduate, graduate, cooperative education, and professional programs. In its latest planning exercise, the University of Windsor committed to expanding graduate education and renewing its focus on research. Of the approximately 16,000 students enrolled at the university, there are over 1,200 full-time and over 150 part-time graduate students.
USEFUL LINKS LIBRARY RESOURCES FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES The Leddy Library currently houses a collection of 1,579,375 print INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CENTRE volumes; 1,513,277 units of microform (microfilm and microfiche); 2,609 linear metres of manuscripts and archives; 5,870 audio items; RESIDENCE SERVICES and 7,310 items of film and video. The Library also provides access GRADUATE CALENDAR to 75,847 full-text online journals and 1,817,362 e-books. Leddy Library offers scholars access to all of the standard research tools plus an extensive range of primary source databases and digital archives for literary study, including the Early English Books Online, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, British Periodicals, British Literary Manuscripts, and numerous other resources. Our Special Collections Library and Archives is strong in the area of Canadian Poetry and also features a Morley Callaghan collection; original letters by Katherine Mansfield; first editions of Virginia Woolf novels; as well as materials related to slavery, abolition, and the Underground Railway. Collections at the Leddy Library are able to support an array of graduate English studies. For materials not in our library, graduate students have free access to inter- library loan resources and to a number of resources at institutions in Michigan. 5
THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
The Department of English Language, Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Windsor is a vigorous, vibrant place: our size enables us to cover British, Canadian, U.S., and world literatures while offering students a collegial and supportive environment in which to pursue their studies. We were the first in Canada to offer a combined English and Creative Writing degree. Our faculty members are widely-published, internationally-renowned scholars and creative writers who take pride in teaching (Our department’s teaching is consistently ranked among the highest in the University).
IN-HOUSE PUBLICATIONS
We publish one professional, international-recognized journal- The Windsor Review, under the editorship of Marty Gervais, which has been publishing for over 50 years. Student work is showcased in a yearly anthology Generation, and in numerous in-house chapbooks and ‘zines’. The Department also hosts an internationally-acclaimed website on gothic literature, The Sickly Taper, under the editorship of Dr. Carol Margaret Davison.
WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE
We have a rich scholarly and creative culture: each year, a Canada Council Writer-in-Residence has been present for consultations and readings (recent writers include Nino Ricci, Alistair MacLeod, Madeline Sonik, Phil Hall, Ray Robertson, Alan Davies, Rosemary Nixon, Terry Griggs, M. NourbeSe Phillip, David French, Christopher Dewdney, and Donato Mancini). In Fall 2015, the Department hosted one of Canada’s first cartoonists-in-residence, Scott Chantler. READING SERIES The Department has a lively culture of creative reading and performance. Our reading series, which includes acclaimed writers from Canada and abroad, is active and ongoing. Public readings at local venues take place frequently throughout the year, sometimes in collaboration with the Schools of Dramatic Art, Music or Visual Arts, the Art Gallery of Windsor, or Artcite, a local artist-run center. A number of our faculty, students, and alumni participate each year in Bookfest Windsor, an annual three-day celebration of the printed word that brings together poets, novelists, graphic artists, and short-story writers. We participate in the activities of the Humanities Research Group, which brings distinguished scholars, authors, and artists to campus throughout the year. 6
THE M.A. IN ENGLISH The Department of English offers two fields within the M.A program: 1. LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE a. Thesis Option b. Course Work Option
2. CREATIVE WRITING AND LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
M.A.: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Within the Language and Literature field, there are two different options: the thesis option and course work option. The course work option offers exposure to a broad range and wide variety of topics in literature, composition, rhetoric, cultural studies, and intellectual history. The thesis option allows students to investigate a single topic in depth through independent, extended research with faculty supervision. The requirements for each option are as follows: COURSE WORK OPTION • EIGHT Graduate Seminars • 26-500 Scholarship and the Profession (a pass/fail 3-week course) THESIS OPTION • FIVE Graduate Seminars • 26-797 Thesis/Project • 26-500 Scholarship and the Profession (a pass/fail 3-week course) NOTE: Students in the Language and Literature Field, thesis option, must register in 26-797 Thesis/Project in every term in which they use university facilities for their work. For the thesis option, students are required to write a thesis paper (approximately 20,000 words) that incorporates the results of independent research. Prior to beginning work on the thesis, students must submit a prospectus, which will be prepared in consultation with their advisor(s). The prospectus (approximately 1,000 words) is a formal, detailed plan of work which includes a statement of the problem, the method or approach to be employed, an assessment of the relevant scholarly and critical work on the topic, some indication of the nature and significance of the expected results or conclusions, and a bibliography. The prospectus is circulated to a panel composed of specialists in the proposed field of study and other appropriate members of the Department of English for approval. The principal advisor normally has full responsibility for the direction of the student’s work. The other members of the thesis committee may be involved at the early stages of the research and writing, but all will read the final draft of the thesis and participate in the examination of the candidate during the thesis defense. Students should consult the current Graduate Calendar and the Guidelines for Theses on the Faculty of Graduate Studies Website before beginning or submitting the project. 7
M.A.: CREATIVE WRITING AND LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
The Creative Writing and Language and Literature field allows students to combine graduate-level study of literature with advanced work in a two-term creative writing seminar and a significant, independent creative writing project. Prior to beginning work on the creative writing thesis, students must submit a prospectus, which will be prepared in consultation with their advisor(s). The prospectus (approximately 1,000 words) is a formal, detailed plan of work which sets out clearly the scope and nature of the project, its particular use of genre and how the work is situated within contemporary creative and critical writing in Canada. The prospectus is accompanied by a bibliography or primary and secondary texts that provide a context for the project. The prospectus will be circulated to appropriate members of the Department of English for approval.
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS: • FOUR Graduate Seminars • 26-591: Creative Writing Seminar A • 26-592: Creative Writing Seminar B • 26-794: Creative Writing Project • 26-500: Scholarship and the Profession (a pass/fail 3-week course) NOTE: Students in the Creative Writing stream must register in 26-794 (Creative Writing Project) in every term in which they use university facilities for their work. The independent writing project, 26-794, which normally emerges from work in 26-591/592 Creative Writing Seminar, is a book-length manuscript (approximately 70-120 pages). The manuscript will include creative work in a particular genre followed by an author’s statement (approximately 3,000-4,000 words). This statement must contextualize the student’s creative work, and might include one or more of the following: • Articulating the process of composition • Reviewing the theory/history of a mode or genre featured in the thesis (for example, historical fiction, the elegiac, concrete poetry, etc.) • Situating the work within contemporary creative practice The student will work independently on this project with the guidance of a committee consisting of a principal advisor, a departmental reader, and an outside program reader (a faculty member from another department in the University). The committee will be recommended to the Faculty of Graduate Studies for approval. The principal advisor normally has full responsibility for the direction of the student’s work. The other members of the thesis committee may be involved at the early stages of the research and writing, but all will read the final draft of the thesis and participate in the examination of the candidate during the project defense. Students should consult the current Graduate Calendar and the Guidelines for Theses on the Faculty of Graduate Studies Website before beginning or submitting the project. 8
THESIS AND PROJECT DEADLINES
Students are expected to confirm their thesis supervisor by January in their first year of study. The Thesis Prospectus for both program streams is due April 15th of the first year of study. The approximate deadlines for the submission of academic theses and creative writing projects for Committee approval are mid-March for Spring Convocation and mid-July for Fall Convocation. The approximate deadlines for oral defenses/presentations/readings are April 30th for Spring convocation and September 15th for Fall convocation. For more details, and current dates and regulations, please visit the Faculty of Graduate Studies Website
SCHOLARSHIP AND THE PROFESSION
In addition to the specified course loads and thesis work, all students must complete 26-500: Scholarship and the Profession, which is a 3-week pass/fail course, normally offered in the Fall term of each academic year. It is recommended that this course be completed in the first term of graduate study. Students are required to attend mandatory workshops that cover areas such as grant/scholarship writing, careers post-graduation, research methods, etc.
NON-ENGLISH COURSES
In certain cases, relevant graduate seminars from cognate departments at the University of Windsor or other institutions may be taken for credit with written permission from both departments and/or institutions. Approval must be granted in advance of enrollment.
DURATION OF STUDY AND TIME TO COMPLETION
Although work on a Master’s degree must be completed within three consecutive calendar years after a full-time student’s first registration, the usual duration of the program is between three and five terms of full-time study for both course work and thesis/creative writing project options. Programs of study involving a thesis or a creative writing project may require additional time. Students in the thesis or creative writing project option should plan their programs carefully; normally, the topic for a thesis or creative writing project and the student’s advisory committee should be determined by the end of the first or second term of study. All full-time students are required to maintain continuous registration through all terms of their graduate program. Students wishing to take a leave of absence for a term must apply to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and pay the appropriate fee. All students must be registered in the term preceding the deadline for spring or fall convocation in order to graduate. *Part-time students admitted to candidacy should complete their work within five years of their first registration. For more details, and current dates and regulations, see the current Graduate Calendar. 9
ADMISSION TO GRADUATE STUDIES IN ENGLISH
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
The minimum qualifications for admission to the Faculty of Graduate Studies for the Master of Arts program in English are: • An Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English • 75% average in all undergraduate courses • 77% average in all English courses in the final year
In addition, acceptance to the program requires the following undergraduate preparation: • Some courses, normally four, in the pre- and early modern periods, from Old English through the eighteenth century; • Some courses, normally four, in the modern period, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Canadian and American literature; • Some courses, normally two (each), from the areas of critical history, theory, scholarship and bibliography, and language and linguistics; • Additional courses from any of the above areas to make up the total number of courses required for an Honours B.A. in English.
NOTE: Students who do not have an Honours B.A. in English or its equivalent may be admitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies on the condition that they fulfill the above requirements by completing undergraduate courses determined by the English department.
APPLICATION MATERIALS
1. PROPOSAL OF STUDIES (ABOUT 500 WORDS) • Applicants must indicate the program and option to which they are applying and discuss such issues as their areas of academic or creative interest, their undergraduate training, their academic or career goals, and how these might be reflected by the available faculty and resources at the University of Windsor.
2. ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TESTS (IF REQUIRED) • Minimum scores required: • TOEFL: 250, IBT-100 • IELTS: 7.0 • PEARSON: 68
3. TRANSCRIPTS FROM PREVIOUSLY ATTENDED POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS 10
4. TWO ACADEMIC REFERENCES • The names you list as referees on your application will be emailed a confidential report form to complete.
5. CREATIVE WRITING PORTFOLIO (ONLY REQUIRED IF APPLYING TO CREATIVE WRITING) • Students applying to the Literature and Creative Writing field must submit, with their application, a portfolio of representative creative work (20-25 pages) for faculty evaluation. It is, in part, on the basis of this submission that the student will be admitted to the Literature and Creative Writing field and to the graduate seminar in Creative Writing (26-591/592). Students meeting other requirements, but not accepted into a graduate seminar in Creative Writing, may apply to 26-498 (Creative Writing III: Seminar), and be allowed to reapply to the Creative Writing field the following year. Alternatively, they may ask to be considered for the Literature and Language field.
APPLICATION DEADLINES
FALL 2018 (September start): March 30th, 2018: To be considered for departmental scholarships and awards May 1st, 2018: To be considered for entrance scholarships July 1st, 2018: Final deadline without scholarship consideration
WINTER 2019 (January start):
November 1st, 2018: Final deadline without scholarship consideration 11
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE While there is no guarantee of financial support for individual students, the University of Windsor strongly supports and encourages graduate study. Please see the “Scholarships and Funding” page on the Faculty of Graduate Studies Website for possible funding opportunities.
ENTRANCE SCHOLARSHIPS Applicants with an admission average of at least 80% will be considered for entrance scholarships. No separate application is required.
• thesis or major paper stream: $7,500 for one year (non-renewable) • non-thesis or non-major paper stream: $3,750 for one year (non-renewable)
EXTERNAL SCHOLARSHIPS
There are two highly competitive external scholarships for students pursuing graduate studies in English; students are encouraged to apply for both in the final year of undergraduate study and first year of graduate study.
THE ONTARIO GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP (OGS) This award, approximately $5,000 per term of study ($15,000 for twelve months for 3 consecutive terms of study), is tenable only in Ontario. You may hold the award for up to two years at the master’s level, four at the doctoral level. Applicants should have an 80% grade average or better in most recent two years of study. It is a highly competitive scholarship, with a total of 2,000 awards, approximately 60 of which are awarded to international students. Application forms and further details are available on the Faculty of Graduate Studies Website.
SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA FELLOWSHIPS (SSHRC): CGSM (CANADA GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP MASTER’S
The CGSM is a twelve-month, non-renewable award of $17,500. Students submit their applications online by December 1st of their first year of study in the graduate program. A prestigious award, the SSHRC master’s scholarship is very competitive. Click Here for application forms and further details. 12
INTERNAL AWARDS
ALISTAIR AND ANITA MACLEOD GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP
Four of these scholarships will be awarded to applicants with the highest major GPAs who apply to the program by March 30th, 2018. The value of each scholarship is $3,000. A major GPA of 80% is required. THE GRADUATE ENGLISH CONFERENCE AWARD The Department of English has limited funds available to graduate students who have made presentations of their research or creative writing at an academic conference. These funds are devoted to graduate students who are presenting at conferences; funds are not available for archival research or conference attendance. In order to qualify for this award, students must also apply for Conference Travel Support from the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Students seeking support for presenting at academic conferences must provide written proof of invitation or acceptance, or a copy of the final conference program indicating their participation. Applications for conference travel reimbursement should be made after the conference has taken place. Deadlines for applications are 30 September, 15 January, and 15 April each year, and no more than one award is available to every graduate student during his or her candidacy in the department. The maximum award is $1,000 CDN.
GRADUATE ASSISTANTSHIPS Most of full-time candidate-level students are awarded graduate assistantships (GAs). The number of positions may vary each year according to institutional funding. Positions are awarded on a competitive basis. Students holding GAs may be assigned a number of different duties within the Department. For example, students may be assigned as instructors in the first-year course, 26-100 Composition. Teaching Composition allows students to combine theory and practice within their educational experience. (NOTE: GAs assigned to teach 26-100 Composition are required to enroll in 26-596, Composition Pedagogy: Theory and Practice). GAs are also assigned to other undergraduate literature and practicum courses, such as 26-305/306, Editing or Publishing Practicum.
A typical Graduate Assistantship (140 hours/term) requires approximately 10 hours of work per week during each term; a three-term GA secures approximately $5,278 (2017-2018 rates) per term. Partial assistantships with prorated stipends may also be awarded. GAs are represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), local 4580.
To be elgiible for a Graduate Assistantship, you must be: • registered full-time in the program • available to attend courses/exams at specified times • in good academic standing in the program 13
GRADUATE COURSES
GRADUATE SEMINARS
The Department of English offers between 2 to 3 graduate seminars in each of the fall and winter terms. Normally, one course is offered in the summer semester. Enrollment in a graduate seminar is usually limited to 10 students, and each member is expected to make a significant contribution to class discussion. Normally, the corresponding undergraduate course is the prerequisite for a graduate seminar, although instructors may have other criteria (see individual course descriptions). With the exception of those pursuing thesis work/creative writing projects, full-time students are expected to enroll in at least two to three graduate seminars per term. Part-time students will enroll in one seminar per term. Every student in a seminar is usually responsible for: • a seminar presentation • a seminar paper • the reading necessary for each weekly meeting of the seminar • a fair share of work within the seminar meeting, which includes asking questions, stating other points of view, probing the arguments that are advanced, querying documentation, etc.
,. GRADING
Although individual instructors provide assignment and grading information in their course descriptions, this information is subject to change. Any changes will be provided in writing by the instructor within the first two weeks of class. The Faculty of Graduate Studies requires that students maintain at least a 70% cumulative GPA at all times. The Department of English requires that any student who receives more than one final grade below 70% withdraw from the program. Courses in which a grade a 70% or higher is received will be accepted for graduate credit. The Department of English allows the grade of “Incomplete” to be assigned to a student who so requests, at the discretion of the instructor, after discussion between the student and the instructor concerning the nature of unfinished work and the time period for completion. A detailed letter, specifying the conditions required for completion must accompany the “Incomplete” form, which is available from the graduate secretary in the Department of English. If courses are not completed within twelve months, they will be permanently designated “Incomplete” on the student’s transcript. Normally, a student may carry only one “Incomplete” grade at a time. Graduate students carrying more than one “Incomplete” grade at the end of the term will have their progress reviewed by their program chair, and a recommendation will be forwarded in each case to the Faculty of Graduate Studies. “Incomplete” grades are not granted for major papers, theses, or dissertations. 14
LIST OF GRADUATE SEMINARS
All graduate courses are seminars. Enrollment is limited in the courses because considerable contribution is expected from each member of the seminar. The specific topics of individual courses may vary, depending upon the interests and needs of professors and students. Special topics courses having the same course number may be taken more than once providing the course content is different and with permission of both the program coordinator and professor offering the course. Full course descriptions of the proposed graduate seminars for 2018-2019 can be found below. 26-500: Scholarship and the Profession 26-501: Tutorials 26-505: The English Language and Linguistics 26-510: Literature of the Old English Period 26-515: Literature of the Middle English Period 26-520: Literature of the Renaissance 26-525: Renaissance Drama 26-530: Literature of the Restoration Period 26-535: Literature of the Eighteenth Century 26-540: Literature of the Romantic Period 26-545: Literature of the Victorian Period 26-550: Literature of the Twentieth Century 26-555: Literature of the United States 26-560: Literature of Canada 26-565: Post-Colonial Literature 26-570: Literary Genres: Poetry 26-575: Literary Genres: Drama 26-580: Literary Genres: Fiction 26-585: Literary Genres: Criticism/Cultural Studies 26-591/592: Creative Writing Seminar A and B 26-596: Composition Pedagogy: Theory and Practice (Required for Graduate Assistants assigned to teach 26-100) 26-794: Creative Writing Project 26-797: Thesis/Project 15
2018-2019 PROPOSED GRADUATE SEMINARS
INTERSESSION 2018
0126-550: LITERATURE OF THE 20TH CENTURY
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Thomas Dilworth The Celtic Tradition in Modern British and Irish Literature
David Jones thought there was such a tradition, distinguished by 3 factors: 1) realism involving affection for the intimate creatureliness of things, 2) a sense of mutability and metamorphosis, and 3) inclusiveness of entirety in a small space. He saw this tradition as first emerging in Shakespeare, the Metaphysical poets, and Blake. We will examine it in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-glass, the poetry of Hopkins, selections of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, Jones’s In Parenthesis, the poetry of Dylan Thomas, and O’Brien’s At Swim Two Birds and The Third Policeman. In this abbreviated Intersession course, we will examine Jones’s ‘The Hunt’, Carroll’s Through the Looking-glass, selections from Finnegans Wake, poetry by Hopkins, and poetry by Dylan Thomas. We will not discuss Jones’s In Parenthesis in class, but the prof will lecture on it at the end of the course, and students will write their essays on some aspect of that epic poem.
Assignments:
• Daily insight sheets: 40% • Class discussion: 20% • 10-15 page essay on In Parenthesis. 40% (to be submitted two weeks after the last meeting of class)
Required Texts:
• Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass. (any edition). Bookstore will have Mineola NY: Dover, 1999. • G.M. Hopkins, Poems and Prose. Penguin • James Joyce, selections from Finnegans Wake, via library link • Dylan Thomas, Collected Poems. New Directions • David Jones, In Parenthesis. London: Faber, 1937. 16
FALL 2018
0126-525: TOPICS IN RENAISSANCE DRAMA
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Mark Johnston TRANS-FORMATIONS ON THE EARLY MODERN STAGE Representations of gender transitioning, hermaphrodism, and androgyny feature prominently in early modern medical / sexological treatises but also haunt contemporary representations of cross-dressing, tales of hybridization, accounts of monstrous births and the like. As a conceptual and symbolic figure of alterity, ambiguity, and liminality, the (metaphoric) hermaphrodite alludes to other types of intermediacy, in-between-ness, and transformation (political, social, historical, linguistic, racial, economic, religious, geographic, generic, ageist, etc.). In this course, we will re-conceptualize tropes of hermaphrodism and trans-formation both through the lenses of modern queer theory, gender, and trans studies, as well as from various Renaissance perspectives, in order to trace and interrogate the early modern English appetite for staging hybridity/mediocrity/ alterity in cultural and dramatic contexts. How do early modern depictions of gender fluidity and hybridity relate to blurring and transition in other contexts, and how do these representations “play out” in terms of early modern theatre and culture more broadly? Assignments and Grading
• Seminar Presentations (2) 30% (15% each) • Response papers (2) 30% (15% each) • Conference Proposal Submission 10% • Final Paper 30%
Each student will present two seminars on primary or secondary readings and also write and present two response papers on any of the plays on the reading list. Students will produce and submit to the conference of their choosing an abstract for a conference-length paper. Students will then develop research papers that can later be altered for presentation at their chosen conferences should their proposals be selected. Primary Texts: I. Dramatic • Jonson, Ben Epicoene, or the Silent Woman • Dekker and Middleton The Roaring Girl • Lyly, John Gallatea; May Day • Marston, John Antonio and Mellida; Antonio’s Revenge • Shakespeare, William Twelfth Night, or What You Will; As You Like It; The Merchant of Venice; The Taming of the Shrew II. Non-Dramatic • Allen, Thomas An Exact Narrative of an Hermaphrodite now in London (1667) • Anonymous Hic Mulier / Haec Vir • Crooke, Helkiah Mikrocosmographia (excerpts) • de Montaigne, Michel “Of a Monstrous Child” and “Marie Germaine” (excerpts) (1580) in Complete Works (London, 1957) • Ovid Metamorphoses (Salmacis & Hermaphroditus) • Paré, Ambroise Of Monsters and Marvels (excerpts) Trans. Janice L. Pallister (U Chicago P, 1982) 17
0126-535: LITERATURE OF RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Katherine Quinsey “Joint Tenant of the Shade”: Animals and Environmentalism in the Long Eighteenth Century
The Enlightenment saw the radical redefinition of “humanity” and of the human place in the environment, the establishment of scientific empiricism and of a subject-object relationship between human observer and natural world, and the growth of urbanisation, with its concomitant growth in landscape aestheticism and environmental philosophy. In this course we will examine the idea of ecology—defined as the understanding of the non-human environment as separate from human definition / domination and as having its own reasons for being—in the works of a range of writers of the period, including Margaret Cavendish, Anne Finch, Aphra Behn, Alexander Pope, James Thomson, William Cowper, Sarah Trimmer, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft. The course will also consider the changing representation of animals in the period, in the shift from their traditional emblematic significance, to the renegotiation of traditional animal-human boundaries, to animals considered as separate creatures in themselves, “joint tenants of the Shade” (Pope, Essay on Man), to the growth of the concept of animal welfare in this period.
Assignments and Grading:
•Bibliographical exercise (5%) •oral reports (15%) •prospectus and bibliography (10%) •seminar presentation (20%) •research paper (35%) •class participation (15%).
Texts: Works by Cavendish, Finch, Thomson, and Pope; course pack including selections from other writers of the period. Students will be encouraged to do primary research in collating and studying non- canonical works in their consideration of the course’s theme. Materials for the course will be available both in published texts and as primary sources through online databases.
Prerequisites: Previous undergraduate courses in seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century literature are advisable though not essential. Courses in women's studies, philosophy, or history of the period are advantageous, as are courses in environmentalism or courses with an ecocritical perspective. 18
0126-596: COMPOSITION PEDAGOGY- THEORY AND PRACTICE
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Dale Jacobs
TEACHING COMPOSITION: THEORY AND PRACTICE
In this course, we will examine the relationship between theory and practice in the teaching of writing. We will look at a variety of composition pedagogies as a way to spur our discussion of current theoretical debates within the field. We will combine theory and practice by continually linking our readings and discussions to the actualities of teaching within our own writing classrooms. This course will introduce composition as a vibrant academic discipline and assist with critical and reflective thinking about teaching.
Assignments and Grading
Each student will be expected to write weekly teaching and reading journals, lead class discussion, observe and critique another student’s class, and undertake a final project that links composition theory and practice.
The final grade will be calculated as follows:
• Journals 30% • Leading class discussion 10% • Class Observation 10% • Class participation 20% • Final project 30%
Prerequisites:
This seminar is required for all Graduate Assistants assigned to Composition (26-100). Other students will be admitted with the consent of the instructor 19
WINTER 2019
0126-555: AMERICAN LITERATURE
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Richard Douglass-Chin Chinese American Literature
The influence of China upon 20th century American modernism has been profound. For example, Ezra Pound’s preoccupation with Chinese poetry led him to publish Cathay (1915); in Chinese writing, he found a model for a radical new poetry for the West. This course examines what and how Chinese Americans themselves have written about their own experiences of China and America. We investigate the importance of language, semiotics, and translation in Chinese American works. Rew Chow observes that some poststructuralists have enthusiastically but mistakenly described Chinese writing as non-phonetic and non-logocentric, thereby ironically construing China as timeless, mythical, stereotypical and fantastical “opposite” of the West. How do Chinese American writers grapple with such important problems of aesthetics, “othering,” and self-representation? In the 21st century, complex global realignments lead us to ask: what does “Chinese American” mean as an ethnic and racial signifier in an era of transnationalism where identity is produced beyond the parameters of the nation-state? In what some theorists call “The Chinese Century,” this course raises questions that are more relevant than ever.
Assignments and Grading • Insight papers 15% • Conference-style Seminar & moderate class discussion 25% • Paper proposal 15% • Final Journal-style Paper 25% • In-class participation 20%
Insight papers: You will be required to submit 5 brief insight papers (250-500 words) on some literary aspect(s) of the work under discussion. Conference-style seminar: You will present for 15-20 minutes on the text you have chosen (from our class list). After this presentation, you will moderate class discussion about your paper and/or the primary work for 40-45 minutes. 20
Paper proposal: You will submit a proposal (about 500-750 words not including bibliography) for your major essay. This proposal will include an annotated bibliography demonstrating that you have completed a basic literature review of your topic. Final paper: A journal-style essay (20-30 pages) will be the final product of your work in the class. In-class participation: You will be expected to attend class prepared to discuss the reading material listed for each session.
Texts • Louis Chiu, Eat a Bowl of Tea (Citadel Kensington reissue, 1986) Original 1961 • Chuang Hua, Crossings (New Directions, 2007) Original 1968 • Maxine Hong Kingston, Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Vintage 1989) Original 1976 • Eileen Chang, Lust Caution (Anchor, 2007) Original 1979 & Ang Lee, Lust Caution (Universal Studios, 2007) • David Huang, M Butterfly (Plume, 1993) Original 1988 & John Luther Long, “Madame Butterfly” http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/long/contents.html & Puccini, Madama Butterfly (Opera) • Frank Chin, Donald Duk (Coffee House Press, 1991) Original 1991 • Ha Jin, War Trash (Vintage, 2004) Original 2004 21
0126-570 LITERARY GENRES: POETRY
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Louis Cabri THE POSTMODERN LONGPOEM: ROBIN BLASER’S THE HOLY FOREST Robin Blaser (born in Denver, Colorado, 1925) is a gay poet whom critics often catalogue as having “arrived” with the midcentury poetry movement labelled the San Francisco Renaissance. But Blaser moved to Vancouver in 1966, where he soon gained international renown as a poet and essayist ranging from Plato, Dante, Bach, Blake to contemporary poetry (Jack Spicer’s), political thought (George Grant’s), and philosophy (Hannah Arendt’s). His writings are integral to the formation of Canadian postmodernism in its westward turn, notably The Holy Forest, published in 1993 in Toronto, then supplemented in a U.S. edition in 2008, a year before his death. Blaser’s trajectory through the twentieth century has contributed to major new thinking about “serial” poetic forms and modes of citation, “the outside” as human condition, the democratic impulse toward a public world, and homosocial desire, these being some of Blaser’s vectors we shall critically examine during this course on a writer whose widespread influence embodies post-World War II cultural and literary developments. Assignments and Grading • Insight sheets (3 X 10%) 30% • Presentation 20% • Final Essay 30% • Essay Abstract 5% • Participation 15%
Texts • Robin Blaser, The Holy Forest (U of California P, 2008) • ---, The Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser (U of California P, 2006) • Essay compilation (pdfs).
On Reserve • Michael Davidson, The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge UP, 1989) • Miriam Nichols, ed., Even on Sunday: Essays, Readings, and Archival Materials on the Poetry and Poetics of Robin Blaser (National Poetry Foundation, 2002) • ---, ed., The Astonishment Tapes: Talks on Poetry and Autobiography with Robin Blaser and Friends (U of Alabama P, 2015) • Charles Watts and Edward Byrne, eds., The Recovery of the Public World: Essays on Poetics in Honour of Robin Blaser (Talonbooks, 1999)
Prerequisites: None 22
FALL & WINTER 2018-2019
0126-591/592: CREATIVE WRITING SEMINAR A&B
INSTUCTOR: Dr. Nicole Markotic
This seminar is an advanced writing workshop focusing on process, development, and completion of new writing. This course involves the theory and practice of advanced writing skills, with particular attention given to literary structure and process. This course will improve students’ writing, editing, and critical skills, as students read, analyze, and critically comment on published writing, as well as analyze edit, revise, and critically comment on each other’s unpublished writing. Students will write a great deal, develop, articulate, and clearly formulate theoretical arguments about creative texts (both published and in- process). While students may produce some work based on their thesis project, this class provides the space to experiment in any genre which they would like to investigate. Throughout each semester, students will be expected to regularly submit approximately 50 pages of high quality, polished prose, poetry, or mixed genre (revised, not first draft), workshop each other’s writing, and theorize class work in the context of contemporary poiesis.
Assignments and Grading Grades will be based on writing, oral and written abilities, as well as class participation, productive critiquing of fellow students’ works, and formal presentations.
On a rotating basis, students will regularly submit writing packages of their own work for workshop review. Students will also be responsible for preparing thoughtful, detailed, and insightful written critiques of each other’s writing. Students will be required to present one seminar during each semester.
• Short Critical Assignments: 15% • Workshop Contribution & Participation: 15% • Presentations: 20% • Creative Submissions: 50%
Texts
• Adams, Hollie – Things You’ve Inherited from Your Mother (NeWest, 2015) • Bryan, Dawn – Gerbil Mother (NeWest, 2008) • Couture, Kevin – Lost Animal Club (NeWest, 2016) • Kroetsch, Robert – David Thompson chapbooks (Wrinkle Press, 2009) • Murakami, Sachiko – Get Me Out of Here (Talon Books, 2015) • Ondaatje, Michale – Coming Through Slaughter (Anansi, 1976) In addition, there will be a course-pack including creative work by George Bowering, Suzette Mayr, Harryette Mullen, Rosemary Nixon, Nancy Shaw, Bob Perelman, Gertrude Stein, Fred Wah, and Rosemarie Waldrop among others. There will also be a course-pack of essays, including work by Charles Bernstein, Wade Compton, Dennis Cooley, Erica Hunt, Hoa Nguyen, Ezra Pound, and Sina Queyras, among others. 23
ENGLISH GRADUATE FACULTY Click on the names below to view each faculty member’s biography, areas of research, contact information and recent publications. Please note that you are not required to arrange a thesis/creative writing project supervisor prior to being admitted to the program. Students in program arrange for a supervisor during their first semester.
Louis Cabri Carol Margaret Davison Thomas Dilworth Richard Douglass-Chin Johanna Frank Susan Holbrook Dale Jacobs Karl Jirgens Mark Johnston Joanna Luft Nicole Markotic Suzanne Matheson Stephen Pender Katherine Quinsey 24
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Department of English Language, Literature & Creative Writing Room 2106 Chrysler Hall North 401 Sunset Ave. Windsor, ON N9B 3P4 Phone: 519-253-3000 ext. 2288 Fax: 519-971-3676 Website: www.uwindsor.ca/english Email: [email protected]