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Department of Courses of Study: Minor Major (B.A.) English and American Literature Master of Arts Doctor of Philosophy

Objectives Creative Writing Students interested in the Creative Writing Program should consult the pamphlet, Creative Writing at Brandeis, obtainable from the main Undergraduate Major in English and American Literature office of the department. The pamphlet is also available at The English major is designed to train students in the analysis of www.brandeis.edu/departments/english/newcwrite1.html. literary texts and to introduce them to the various literary and cultural traditions that influence creative work in the English language. How to Be Admitted to the Graduate Program Undergraduate Major in Creative Writing The major in creative writing is designed to help students Candidates for admission should have a bachelor’s degree, preferably explore and develop their creative writing and understanding of with a major in English and American literature, and a reading literary and cultural traditions. This major is distinguished by knowledge of French, Italian, Spanish, German, Greek, or Latin. They the requirement of completing a book-length collection of poetry, are required to submit a sample of their critical writing not to exceed short stories, or a novel in the senior year as an Honors Senior 35 pages; the 35-page maximum may consist of a single critical essay Thesis. The writing is expected to be of high imaginative caliber, or two shorter essays of approximately equal length. All applicants rigorously conceived and crafted. are required to submit scores on the Graduate Record Examination Verbal Aptitude test. The GRE Advanced Test in Literature is also Graduate Program in English and American Literature required for Ph.D. applicants and recommended for joint M.A. The Graduate Program in English and American Literature is applicants. The general requirements for admission to the Graduate designed to offer training in the interpretation and evaluation of School, as specified in an earlier section of this Bulletin, apply to literary texts in their historical and cultural contexts. candidates for admission to this area of study.

How to Become an Undergraduate Major

Literature There are no prerequisites for declaring the English major, and students may declare the major at any time. Prospective majors are encouraged to take two or three courses in the department in their first and second years. ENG 11a (Introduction to Literary Method) focuses on the basic skills needed for studying literature and is required for the major. Courses with numbers below 100 are especially suitable for beginning students.

Faculty Patricia Chu Jayne Anne Phillips Modernism. American literature. Asian- Fiction, Writer-in-Residence. American literature. Michael Gilmore, Chair John Plotz Puritanism. Literature of the American William Flesch Victorian literature. The novel. Politics and Revolution. American Renaissance. Film Poetry. Renaissance. Theory. aesthetics. studies. Caren Irr Laura Quinney, Undergraduate John Brereton (Director of University Twentieth-century American literature. Advising Head Writing) Theory. Cultural studies. Romanticism. Literature and philosophy. Composition and rhetoric. Pedagogy. 18th-century literature. Literary nonfiction. Thomas King, Graduate Advising Head Performance studies. Gender studies. Gay Mark Sanders Olga Broumas (Director of Creative Writing) studies. 17th- and 18th-century drama. 20th-century Anglophone and comparative Poetry. literature. South African literature and Susan S. Lanser intellectual history. Literary theory. John Burt 18th- and 19th-century British and French American literature. Romanticism. studies. Women writers. The novel. Faith Smith Composition. Philosophy of education. Women’s studies and lesbian/gay studies. African and Afro-American literature. Literature of the American South. Poetry. Comparative literature. Caribbean literature.

Mary Baine Campbell Kate Lilley Ramie Targoff Medieval literature. Poetry. Renaissance Fannie Hurst Poet. Renaissance literature. Shakespeare. literature. Religion and literature. Jill McCorkle Jacob Ziskind Visiting Fiction Writer. Michaele Whelan Contemporary Anglophone literature. Paul Morrison American literature. Theory. Modernism. Literary criticism and theory. 140 English and American Literature

Course Numbers G. Advanced Placement credits do not count toward the major. Honors Track:Track Graduation with honors in English requires a GPA of Except for courses in the 90-99 range, English department courses 3.50 or higher in courses counting towards the major, and satisfactory are numbered systematically. The final digit for any course completion of a Seniors Honors Essay (one-semester ENG 99a or 99b), number identifies the subject, as follows: which counts as a 10th course. In rare cases, students may elect instead to complete the Senior Honor Thesis (two-semesters ENG 0 - Courses in a literary genre 99d). To write an Honors Essay or Thesis, students must arrange to be 1 - Courses in literary theory and literary criticism advised by a faculty member in the department who has agreed to 2 - Medieval British literature (roughly before 1500) direct the essay or thesis. The undergraduate advising head can assist 3 - Renaissance British literature (circa 1500-1660) students in finding appropriate directors. Departmental honors are 4 - Restoration/18th-century British literature awarded on the basis of excellence in all courses taken in the 5 - 19th-century British literature department, including the senior essay or theses. Students in the 6 - 19th-century American literature creative writing major who complete ENG 96d will be considered to 7 - 20th-century literature have completed a Senior Honors Thesis. 8 - Miscellaneous literary subjects 9 - Writing courses A student majoring in literature may double-major or minor in creative writing.

Requirements for the Undergraduate Major Creative Writing Major AA. A semester course in literary method, ENG 11a, which should be taken in as early as possible but no later than during the student’s Literature Major first year as an English major. Nine semester courses are required, including the following: B. Two semester courses in directed writing (poetry, prose, or both): AA. A semester course in literary method, ENG 11a. ENG 19a, ENG 19b, ENG 109a, ENG 109b, ENG 119a, ENG 119b, ENG 129a, ENG 129b. At least one course in directed writing must be B. Three semester courses dealing primarily with literature in completed before the end of the sophomore year. A student may take English written before 1850. All courses ending in 2, 3, or 4 as many workshops as she or he might like, but the two required fulfill this requirement, as well as certain courses ending in 5 or must be concluded before the beginning of the senior year. No more 6. For specific information about whether a particular course than one course in directed writing can be taken in any semester in fulfills the pre-1850 requirement please consult the instructor or the same genre. Two such courses may be taken in different genres. the undergraduate advising head. A listing is provided below and is also available from the main office in the department. C. One course in foundational texts; either ENG 10a or HUM 10a.

Pre-1850 courses: ENG 3a, 4a, 23a, 25a, 33a, 43a, 44a, 53a, 63a, D. One course in World Anglophone Literature; or a 20th-century 103a, 104a, 114b, 115b, 122a, 124a, 125b, 132b, 133a, 134a, 135b, literature course in translation or original language, to be agreed upon 142b, 143a, 144b, 152b, 164b, 173a, 174b. by the director of creative writing.

The following courses usually fulfill the pre-1850 requirement, E. Two English electives. however, students must check with the instructor and the undergraduate advising head for final approval: ENG 105a, 105b. F. An elective course in a studio or performing art, to be agreed upon with the director of creative writing. C. One semester course in world literature (exclusive of the United States and England) from the list given below. For the G. ENG 96d (Senior Creative Writing Thesis). The student will purposes of this requirement, world literature includes literature produce, under the direction of his or her advisor, a body of writing written in English in places outside the United States and (usually a book of poems, collection of stories, or a novel) of England (e.g., Irish, Canadian, Australian, Indian, African, or appropriate scope (two semesters). Caribbean literature). Courses in foundational texts (ENG 10a or HUM 10a), or certain cross-listed courses also fulfill this H. The writing major also requires an essay on a tutorial bibliography: requirement. Other courses may also be suitable; students with a list of 8-12 books, chosen by the candidate in collaboration with the questions should consult the undergraduate advising head. thesis advisor and/or the director of creative writing. This essay will be due at the end of the senior year, along with the thesis. World literature courses: AAAS 133b, COML 102a, 147b, 165a, ENG 10a, 17b, 77b, 107a, 111b, 127a, 147b, 197b, HUM 10a I. Advanced placement credits do not count toward the major.

D. Four elective semester courses, which may include any course Admission to the creative writing major is by application only. offered, or cross-listed, in the department, with the following Admission will be decided by the creative writing faculty on exceptions: no more than one creative writing workshop may be completion by the student of at least one course in directed writing. counted as an elective; USEM, COMP, and UWS courses do not The deadline for admission is at the end of April. Students are count toward the major requirements in English and American notified by the end of the spring examination period. literature. Cross-listed courses are considered to be outside the department and are subject to the restriction in (F) below. Recommendations for honors in the creative writing major will be made to the English department by the creative writing faculty, based E. No course with a final grade below C- can count toward on the student’s work as exemplified by the senior thesis. fulfilling the major requirements in English and American literature. A student majoring in creative writring may double-major in English and American literature, or may minor in English, American and F. A maximum of three courses taught by persons other than Anglophone literature. members of the faculty of the English and American literature department may be counted towards the major. This restriction includes courses taken while studying abroad, cross-listed courses, and transfer credits. English and American Literature 141

Requirements for the English and American Literature/Creative Or, students might take courses clustered around a particular topic, Writing Double Major such as gender: ENG 46a (Nineteenth-Century American Women Fourteen semester courses are required, including the following: Writers), ENG 107 (Caribbean Women Writers), ENG 114b (Gender and the Rise of the Novel in England and France), and ENG 131b A. A semester course in literary methods (ENG 11a). (Feminist Theory). Students may also wish to select courses that concentrate on a particular historical period (such as the 18th B. ENG/HUM 10a. century) or a methodological approach (such as postcolonial studies). These options are not exhaustive. C. Three courses dealing primarily with literature in English written before 1850. All courses ending in a 2, 3, or 4 fulfill this No course with a final grade below C- can count toward the requirement. Some courses ending in a 5 or 6 will fulfill this requirements for the minor in English literature. requirement. If you are in doubt, check with the professor or the undergraduate advising head. Minor in Creative Writing Four semester courses are required, including the following: D. One course in world literature taught in the English language. For the purpose of this requirement, world literature includes A. Three writing courses in poetry or fiction conducted as workshops. literature written in English outside the United States and Such courses facilitate writing under directions in a creative and England (e.g., Irish, Canadian, Australian, Indian, African, or critical community, and are offered exclusively on a Credit/No Credit Caribbean literature). Courses in foundational texts (e.g., HUM basis. 10a or ENG 10a) or comparative literature (if taught in the English language) also fulfill this requirement. B. A literature course in the Department of English and American Literature to compliment the student’s chosen genre; for instance E. Three electives, which may include any course offered by someone whose focus is on poetry would take a literature course in faculty in the department, cannot be fulfilled by creative writing that subject, one pursuing the short story would take a course workshop. covering some aspect or period of that genre.

F. A minimum of two semester courses in directed writing F. Creative Writing Major/English, American, and Anglophone (poetry, prose, or both): e.g., ENG 19a, ENG 19b, ENG 109a, ENG Literature Minor 109b, ENG 119a, ENG 119b, or ENG 129a. At least one course in Thirteen courses are required, including the following: directed writing must be completed before the end of the sophomore year. All required courses in directed writing must be A. A semester course in literary method, ENG 11a, which should be concluded before the beginning of the senior year. taken in as early as possible but no later than during the student’s first year as a creative writing major. G. An elective course in a studio or performing art, to be agreed upon with the director of the writing track. B. Two semester courses in directed writing (poetry, prose, or both): ENG 19a, ENG 109a, ENG 109b, ENG 119a, ENG 119b, ENG 129a, H. H. ENG 96d (Senior Creative Writing Thesis). The student will ENG 129b. At least one course in directed writing must be completed produce, under the direction of his or her advisor, a body of before the end of the sophomore year. A student may take as many writing (usually a book of poems or a collection of stories) of workshops as she or he might like, but the two required must be appropriate scope (two semesters). concluded before the beginning of the senior year. No more than one course in directed writing can be taken in any semester in the same I. I. An essay on a tutorial bibliography done at the end of the genre. Two such courses may be taken in different genres. student’s senior year. C. One course in foundational texts; either ENG 10a or HUM 10a No course wirth a final grade below C- can count toward fulfilling requirements for the major in English and American D. One course in world Anglophone literature; or a 20th-century literature. Advanced Placement credits do not count toward the literature course in translation or original language, to be agreed upon double major. by the director of creative writing.

E. An elective course in a studio or performing art, to be agreed upon Requirements for the Undergraduate Minor with the director of creative writing.

F. ENG 96d (Senior Creative Writing Thesis). The student will Minor in English, American, and Anglophone Literature Five courses are required, including the following: produce, under the direction of his or her advisor, a body of writing (usually a book of poems, collection of stories, or a novel) of appropriate scope (two semesters). A. ENG 11a (Introduction to Literary Methods). G. The writing major also requires an essay on a tutorial bibliography: B. Any four additional courses in the Department of English and G. American Literature, with the following exception: only one a list of eight to 12 books, chosen by the candidate in collaboration creative writing workshop may count toward the minor. with the thesis advisor and/or the director of creative writing. This essay will be due at the end of the senior year, along with the thesis. C. Advanced placement credits do not count toward the minor. H. Any five additional courses in the Department of English and American Literature, with the following exception: only one creative D. Students are encouraged to take courses on related topics; the Undergraduate Advising Head can assist students in grouping writing workshop may count toward fulfilling this requirement. courses appropriately. For instance, students may wish to take I. courses in one national literature: ENG 6a (American Literature I. Advanced placement credits do not count toward the minor. from 1832 to 1900), ENG 16a (Nineteenth-Century African- J. American Literature), ENG 7a (American Literature, 1900-2000), J. For the minor, students are encouraged to take courses on related ENG 8a (21st-Century American Literature). Alternatively, topics; the undergraduate advising head can assist students in students might elect to take a sequence of courses in a single grouping courses appropriately. For instance, students may wish to genre: e.g., ENG 63a (Renaissance Poetry), ENG 25a take courses in one national literature: ENG 6a (American Literature (Romanticism I: Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge), ENG 157a from 1832 to 1900), ENG 16a (19th-Century African-American (Contemporary Poetry), and ENG 109a (Directed Writing: Poetry). Literature), ENG 7a (American Literature, 1900-2000), ENG 8a (21st- Century American Literature). Alternatively, students might elect to 142 English and American Literature take a sequence of courses in a single genre: e.g., ENG 63a Language Requirement (Renaissance Poetry), ENG 25a Romanticism I (Blake, A reading knowledge of a major foreign language (normally modern Wordsworth, and Coleridge), ENG 157a (Contemporary Poetry), European, classical Greek, or Latin) must be demonstrated by passing and ENG 109a (Directed Writing: Poetry). Or, students might a written translation examination. The completion of the language take courses clustered around a particular topic, such as gender: requirement at another university does not exempt the student from ENG 46a (Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers), ENG the Brandeis requirement. 107 (Caribbean Women Writers), ENG 114b (Gender and the Rise of the Novel in England and France), and ENG 131b (Feminist Theory). Students may also wish to select courses that Requirements for the Joint Degree of Master of Arts in concentrate on a particular historical period (such as the 18th English and American Literature and Women’s Studies century) or a methodological approach (such as postcolonial studies). These options are not exhaustive. A. ENG 200a (Methods of Literary Study). No course with a final grade below C- can count toward these requirements. B. WMNS 205a, or a foundational course alternative.

C. Five additional courses in the English department selected from Special Notes Relating to Undergraduates 100-level courses and graduate seminars (200-level courses). At least two of these courses must be at the 200 level. One of these five courses must be listed as an elective with the women’s studies This department participates in the European cultural studies program. major and, in general, its courses are open to ECS majors. D. One cross-listed women’s studies course in a department other Transfer credit toward the major: Application for the use of than the English department. transfer credit (awarded by the Office of the University Registrar) toward the major requirements must be accompanied by a E. Attendance at the year-long, noncredit, Women’s Studies Requirement Substitution Form provided by the English and Colloquium Series. American literature department office. The student may be asked to provide a syllabus, a transcript of grades, and in some cases F. Language requirement: A reading knowledge of a major foreign examples of written work for which credit is being sought. The language (normally modern European, classical Greek, or Latin) must number of major requirements that can be satisfied with transfer be demonstrated by passing a written translation examination. The credit is at the discretion of the undergraduate advising completion of the language requirement at another university does committee. not exempt the student from the Brandeis University requirement.

More detailed descriptions of the courses offered each semester G. First-year students must present a paper at the First-Year will be available in the English and American literature Symposium in the spring term. department office. H. Thesis requirement: This project must be 25 to 35 pages long. Papers written for course work, papers presented at conferences, and Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts (as part papers written specifically for the M.A. degree are all acceptable. The of the Ph.D. Program) paper must engage a feminist perspective or deal with literary subjects appropriate to women’s studies. Each paper will be evaluated by a reader for whom the paper was not originally written. The paper Program of Study must satisfy the reader’s standards for excellence in M.A. degree-level First-year students are expected to take six courses in the English work. For further information, contact the women’s studies advisor in department. Each student will take ENG 200a (Methods of the English and American literature department. Literary Study); this seminar includes attention to research methods. Each student will complete a series of workshops in the teaching of writing. Other courses may be selected from Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy departmental offerings at the 100 and 200 level, although at least two of these electives must be 200-level seminars. Any course taught at the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies at Program of Study Radcliffe College by a faculty member in the department, and Second-year students continue to take courses, usually two each approved by the department, shall be deemed the equivalent of a term. Students have an obligation to review their preparation in the 200-level course within the English department for the purposes field with their advisors and to ensure that they are acquiring a of meeting departmental requirements. First-year students may comprehensive knowledge of the various historical periods and genres apply to the director of graduate studies for permission to take of English and American literature and a deeper knowledge of the courses in other departments at Brandeis, courses offered at other particular period or field they propose to offer as a specialty. With the universities through various consortium arrangements, and exception of ENG 200a and the teaching workshops, no specific courses offered by the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies courses are required of all Brandeis Ph.D. candidates; each student’s at Radcliffe College but not taught by department faculty program will be designed in light of the strengths and weaknesses of members. First-year students may participate in monthly his or her previous preparation and in accord with his or her own workshops on teaching and research methods offered by the interests. director of graduate studies and department faculty. At the annual First Year Symposium, held in the spring, first-year A student who comes to Brandeis with a B.A. degree is required to students present a paper to an audience of graduate students and take 12 courses for the Ph.D. degree. A student with an M.A. degree faculty. The department meets at the end of every academic year in English is required to take eight additional courses, six of which to discuss the progress of its graduate students, particularly first- are normally taken in the Brandeis English department. Additional and second-year students. courses may be taken in other departments at Brandeis, through the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies at Radcliffe College, and Residence Requirement through consortium arrangements with Boston College, Boston The minimum residence requirement is one year, though University, and Tufts University. students with inadequate preparation may require more. English and American Literature 143

Second- and third-year students may participate in monthly Dissertation Field Examination workshops on teaching and research methods offered by the All candidates for the Ph.D. will be asked to pass an oral examination director of graduate studies and department faculty. The in the historical period or genre in which the candidate expects to Graduate Committee offers annual workshops for third-year write a dissertation. This examination should be taken in the third students on such topics as publication, the field exam, and the year. dissertation prospectus. The job placement officer offers an annual workshop for doctoral candidates and recent graduates on Dissertation and Defense the job search and provides ongoing mentoring for job seekers. Each student submits to the dissertation director and second reader a Advanced graduate students have opportunities to present their brief (four- to seven-page) dissertation proposal describing the topic, work to other scholars in their field by participating in an the questions to be explored, the method of research, and reasons for ongoing Graduate Feminist Colloquium and in various national believing the dissertation will be an original contribution to and international conferences, for which some travel funds are knowledge. The student’s director and/or second reader may also available. Each year graduate students plan a lecture series in require a bibliography. which they and faculty members come together to share their work. Each student will submit a dissertation in a form approved by his/her dissertation director and by a committee appointed by the director of Teaching Requirement graduate studies. The student will defend the dissertation at a Final Training in teaching is provided through workshops offered in Oral Examination. the first year. Second-, third-, and fourth-year students are normally given a variety of supervised teaching assignments, Completion of Degree including University Writing Seminars, University Seminars in Students entering the Ph.D. program with a B.A. must earn the degree Humanistic Inquiries, and/or in English and American literature within eight years. Students entering the Ph.D. program with an M.A. department courses. must earn the degree within seven years. A student requesting an extension must demonstrate significant progress toward completing Residence Requirement the dissertation by submitting a prospectus (or equivalent, including a The minimum residence requirement is two years beyond the chapter outline) and at least one chapter to the student’s advisor. If master’s degree or three years beyond the bachelor’s degree. the student’s advisor agrees to support the requested extension, the advisor will refer the case to the graduate committee for approval. Language Requirement In addition to the first language requirement, the student must (1) demonstrate a reading knowledge of a second major foreign Special Notes Relating to the Graduate Program language; or (2) demonstrate an advanced competence in the first foreign language and a knowledge of its literature; or (3) take a graduate course, ordinarily a seminar, in a field closely related to Students should also consult the general degree requirements and research on the dissertation. Approval of the graduate committee academic regulations found in an earlier section of this Bulletin. must be sought before such a course is taken; the student must demonstrate the relevance of the proposed course to the dissertation.

Courses of Instruction HUM 10a The Western Canon ENG 6a American Literature from 1832 to This course may not be taken for credit by 1900 students who have taken ENG 10a. [ hum ] (1-99) Primarily for Undergraduate [ hum ] The transformation of our literary culture: Students Foundational texts of the Western canon: the literary marketplace, domestic fiction, Bible, Homer, Virgil, and Dante. Thematic transcendentalism, and the problem of race. emphases and supplementary texts vary Cooper, Poe, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Fanny COMP 1a Composition from year to year. Fern, Harriet Wilson, Kate Chopin, and Prerequisite: Placement by the director of Ms. Quinney Melville. Usually offered every year. Will be University writing. Enrollment limited to offered in the fall of 2003. 10 per section. Successful completion of ENG 4a The Restoration and the Eighteenth Mr. Burt or Mr. Gilmore this course does NOT satisfy the first-year Century writing requirement. [ hum ] ENG 7a American Literature from 1900 to A course in the fundamentals of writing, 1660-1800: The age of reason and 2000 required as a prerequisite to the first-year contradiction, enlightenment, and [ hum ] writing requirement for selected students xenophobia. Surveys literary, critical, Focus on literature and cultural and identified by the director of University philosophical, political, and life writing, historical politics of major authors. Prose writing. Several sections will be offered in investigating the emergence of a literary and poetry. May include Eliot, Frost, the fall semester. public sphere, a national canon, and the Williams, Moore, Himes, Cather, and Staff first professional women writers. Usually Faulkner as well as contemporary authors. offered every second year. Will be offered in Usually offered every year. Will be offered the fall of 2003. in the fall of 2003. UWS ##a and ##b University Writing UWS ##a and ##b University Writing Mr. King Mr. Burt, Ms. Chu, or Ms. Irr Seminar Enrollment limited to 17. ENG 5a Nineteenth-Century Survey A course in college writing, with stress on [ hum ] writing sound argumentative essays that Offers general coverage of the major literary demonstrate mechanical and stylistic genres in the 19th century. The course expertise. This course satisfies Option II of studies the cultural context forged by the the first-year writing requirement. Offered interaction of fiction, prose, and poetry. every semester. Usually offered every third year. Last Staff offered in the spring of 2003. Mr. Plotz 144 English and American Literature

ENG 8a Twenty-First Century American ENG 16a Nineteenth-Century African- ENG 21a Adolescent Literature from Literature American Literature: Texts and Contexts Grimm to Voldemorte [ hum ] [ hum ] [ hum ] An introductory survey of trends in recent Examines some of the major 19th-century Literature for adolescents can’t afford any American literature. Focus on prose. texts of African-American literature and self-indulgences: its audience is too Readings vary yearly but always include why they are at the center of often heated impatient. So it’s a great place to see what’s winners of major literary prizes such as the debates about the canon today. Considers essential to story-telling. Authors include Pulitzer, National Book Award, PEN/ why the issues raised by these texts— Shelley, Twain, Salinger, Pullman, and Faulkner Award, Pushcart Prize, O. Henry gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, Rowling, whom we’ll use to test basic Award, or the Nobel Prize. Usually offered the limits of democracy, and the narrative theory. Usually offered every every second year. Last offered in the fall of relationship of African-Americans to the second year. Will be offered in the spring of 2002. United States and other national spaces— 2004. Ms. Irr resonate so profoundly in literary and Mr. Flesch cultural studies, and in national life. ENG 9a Advanced Writing Seminar Usually offered every third year. Last ENG 23a Domains of Seventeenth-Century [ hum ] offered in the fall of 2000. Performance Signature of the instructor required. Ms. Smith [ hum ] A workshop in nonfiction designed mainly Seventeenth-century London performance for juniors and seniors who want to develop ENG 17a The Alternative Press in the investigated through the domains of its skills in the critical or personal essay, in United States: 1910-2000 production—the court, the city, and the memoir, autobiography, or scholarly [ hum ] emerging “town,” center of a new leisure writing. Readings include short works of A critical history of journalism in the class. Drama, masques, and music drama nonfiction by a wide variety of writers. United States. Topics to be covered include studied as modes of representation Usually offered every year. Last offered in the muckrakers, partisan reportage of Spain, negotiating class mobility, changing the spring of 2000. propaganda in World War II, the black press, concepts of state authority and personal Staff censorship of the counter-culture, identity, and shifts in gender and sexual industrialization, and the Internet. Daily relations. Usually offered every second year. ENG 10a Canonical Precursors: Genesis, reading of major newspapers required. Last offered in the spring of 2003. Homer, Sappho, Ovid, Virgil Usually offered every third year. Last Mr. King [ hum ] offered in the spring of 2000. This course may not be repeated for credit Ms. Irr ENG 25a Romanticism I: Blake, by students who have taken HUM 10a in Wordsworth, and Coleridge previous years. ENG 17b African Novel [ hum ] Helps prepare majors for study of most [ nw hum ] Examines the major poetry and some prose premodern and even modern literature in Examines the African novel in English, by the first generation of English Romantic English through readings of major texts along with works in translation. Attention poets who may be said to have defined central to a literary education for writers in to language address, and narrative form, in, Romanticism and set the tone for the last English from the Middle Ages through among others: Achebe, Ousmane, Thiong’o, two centuries of English literature. Usually Modernism. Genesis, Iliad, Odyssey, Farah, Head, Hove, Gordimer, and Coetzee. offered every second year. Will be offered in Sappho’s lyrics, Aeneid, Metamorphoses. Usually offered every second year. Last the fall of 2003. Usually offered every year. Will be offered offered in spring 2001. Mr. Burt or Ms. Quinney in the spring of 2004. Mr. Sanders Ms. Campbell or Mr. Flesch ENG 26a Detection and Analysis: ENG 19a Introduction to Creative Writing Deciphering Theories of “Madness” ENG 10b Poetry: A Basic Course [ hum ] [ hum ] [ hum ] Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit Enrollment limited to 15. Enrollment limited to 12. basis. Signature of the instructor required. The expert reader is a detective, a gatherer Designed as a “first” course for all persons A workshop for beginning writers. Practice of clues and intimations. The field of interested in the subject. It is intended to and discussion of short literary and oral detection will range from poems to short be basic without being elementary. The forms: lyric, poetry, the short story, tales, stories, from novels to drama and span five subject matter will consist of poems of curses, spells. Usually offered every year. centuries. First-person narrators, poetic short and middle length in English from the Will be offered in the spring of 2004. speakers, and soliloquizers characterized as earliest period to the present. Usually Ms. Broumas, Ms. Campbell, or Ms. Lilley marginal, “Other,” distressed, disturbed, offered every fourth year. Last offered in the meandering, and even “mad” will unite our fall of 1999. ENG 19b The Autobiographical Imagination reading and critical thinking. Usually Staff (formerly ENG 117b) offered every year. Last offered in the fall of [ hum ] 2002. ENG 11a Introduction to Literary Method Students wishing to enroll should submit a Ms. Whelan [ hum ] sample of writing to the English department Enrollment limited to 15 per section in the office, Rabb 144, before the first class ENG 28b Queer Readings: Before Stonewall fall and 18 per section in the spring. meeting. This course may not be repeated [ hum ] The course’s purpose is to train students in for credit by students who have taken ENG This course may not be repeated for credit the critical reading of literary texts. There 117b in previous years. Signature of the by students who have taken TUTR 21b in will be frequent assignments of writing that instructor required. the spring of 2002. involve literary analysis. Multiple sections. Combines the study of contemporary Students read texts as artifacts of social Usually offered every semester. Will be autobiographical prose and poetry with beliefs, desires, and anxieties about sexed offered in the fall of 2003. intense writing practice arising from these bodies and their pleasures. Readings may Staff texts. Examines—as writers— what it include Plato, Virgil, Spenser, Marlowe, means to construct the story of one’s life, Shakespeare, Phillips, Behn, Gray, and ways in which lies, metaphor, and Tennyson, Lister, Whitman, Dickinson, imagination transform memory to reveal Wilde, Freud, Woolf, Barnes, Stein, Larsen, and conceal the self. Usually offered every Genet, and Baldwin. Usually offered every second year. Will be offered in the fall of second year. Will be offered in the spring of 2003. 2004. Ms. Broumas Mr. King English and American Literature 145

ENG 33a Shakespeare ENG 47b Modern English Fiction ENG 64b Restoration and Eighteenth- [ hum ] [ hum ] Century Drama and Performance A survey of Shakespeare as a dramatist. A survey of English fiction written during (formerly ENG 164b) From nine to 12 plays will be read, the first half of the 20th century, including [ hum ] representing all periods of Shakespeare’s works by Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, This course may not be repeated for credit dramatic career. Usually offered every year. Katherine Mansfield, and Virginia Woolf. by students who have taken ENG 164b in Will be offered in the fall of 2003. Usually offered every second year. Last previous years. Mr. Flesch or Ms. Targoff offered in the spring of 2001. Investigates the exchange between Staff performance texts and contemporaneous ENG 38b Narratives of Paranoia in discussions of class, nationality, and Contemporary American Fiction ENG 48a Sadists, Vampires, and Fallen political party. Emphasizes the emergence [ hum ] Angels: The Byronic Figures from Byron to of modern gender and sexual roles and the Paranoia is a persistent theme in the Present Day impact of the first professional women contemporary American fiction. Explores [ wi hum ] actors. Usually offered every second year. the perils and pleasures of paranoia as a Monster, pervert, rebel, radical: the Last offered in the fall of 2002. cultural phenomenon and narrative form Romantic poet Lord Byron has been called Mr. King that expresses anxieties about power, all these. Examine the Byron figure as it knowledge, and identity. Authors include developed in literature and on screen, ENG 67b Modern Poetry Pynchon, Burroughs, Atwood, DeLillo, and asking why it has such consistency and [ hum ] others. Special one-time offering. Will be staying power, and what it reveals about A course on the major poets of the 20th offered in the spring of 2004. society and psychology. Special one-time century. Usually offered every third year. Mr. Bottorff offering. Will be offered in the fall of 2003. Will be offered in the fall of 2003. Ms. Bernhard-Jackson Mr. Morrison ENG 43a Major English Authors, Chaucer to Milton ENG 57a Modern British and Irish Fiction ENG 75b The Victorian Novel [ hum ] [ hum ] [ hum ] A survey of major English authors from the Twentieth-century British and Irish fiction The rhetorical strategies, themes, and Middle Ages through the Renaissance, in its worldwide context. Begins with the objectives of Victorian realism. Texts may including Chaucer, Wyatt, Spencer, Modernism of Woolf, Beckett, and O’Brien; include Eliot’s Middlemarch, Thackeray’s Marlowe, Shakespeare, Sidney, Donne, usually includes Iris Murdoch, Caryl Vanity Fair, Brontë’s Villette, Gaskell’s Herbert, Marvell, Milton. No prior Phillips, Commonwealth writers Salman Mary Barton, Dickens’s Bleak House, and experience in medieval or Renaissance Rushdie, George Lamming, Peter Carey, and Trollope’s The Prime Minister. Usually literature is required. Usually offered every Kazuo Ishiguro. Includes comparisons with offered every fourth year. Last offered in the year. Last offered in the spring of 2003. contemporary British films such as fall of 2002. Ms. Targoff Trainspotting and My Beautiful Staff Launderette. Usually offered every second ENG 44a Rights: Theory and Rhetoric year. Will be offered in the spring of 2004. ENG 77b Literatures of Global English [ hum ] Mr. Plotz (formerly ENG 177b) Classic enlightenment texts about political, [ nw hum ] intellectual, economic, gender, and human ENG 60b Writing about the Environment This course may not be repeated for credit rights: Milton, Locke, Adam Smith, the Bill [ hum ] by students who have taken ENG 177b in of Rights, Paine, and Wollstonecraft. A course on writing persuasively about previous years. Usually offered every second year. Last humans’ interactions with, and Survey of world Anglophone literatures, as offered in the spring of 2001. responsibilities for, the world around us. well as in translation, with attention to Staff Practice in several forms of non-fiction literary responses of writers to aspects of prose; readings from various cultures and English as a global language with a colonial ENG 46a Nineteenth-Century American periods, mainly from the United States history. Focus on Indian subcontinent, Women Writers since Thoreau, including Berry, Carson, Africa, the Caribbean, North America. [ hum ] Dillard, and Lopez. Usually offered every Writers may include Rushdie, Devi, How did American women writers engage second year. Last offered in the spring of Coetzee, Kincaid, Atwood, Anzaldua. with the social, political, and economic 2001. Usually offered every year. Last offered in changes of the 19th century? Focuses on Staff the fall of 2002. gendered rhetorics of industrialization, Mr. Sanders imperialism, immigration, and abolition, as ENG 63a Renaissance Poetry well as concepts of national identity. [ hum ] ENG 96d Senior Creative Writing Thesis Examines how these writers related Examines lyric and narrative poetry by Signature of the instructor and the director themselves to literary movements of the Wyatt, Surrey, Marlowe, Sidney, Spenser, of creative writing required. period. Usually offered every second year. Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, and Herbert. Required for English majors on the creative Will be offered in the spring of 2004. Usually offered every second year. Will be writing track. Usually offered every year. Ms. Chu offered in the spring of 2004. Staff Mr. Flesch or Ms. Targoff ENG 47a Asian-American Literature ENG 97a Senior Essay [ hum ] Signature of the instructor required. Examines literature in English by North For seniors interested in writing an essay American writers of Asian descent from the outside of the honors track. Usually offered 19th century to the present. Focuses on every year. issues of literary collectivity based on Staff national origin and race, and how gender, sexuality, and class have affected critical ENG 97d Senior Thesis approaches to this literature. Usually Signature of the instructor required. offered every second year. Last offered in For seniors interested in writing a thesis the fall of 2001. outside of the honors track. Usually offered Ms. Chu every year. Staff 146 English and American Literature

ENG 98a Independent Study ENG 105b Nineteenth-Century Novel ENG 109a Directed Writing: Poetry Signature of the instructor required. [ hum ] [ hum ] Usually offered every year. Focuses on Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit Staff Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas basis. Signature of the instructor required. Hardy, and Joseph Conrad. Explores the Students wishing to enroll should submit a ENG 98b Independent Study relationship between the novel, the era’s writing sample consisting of three poems to Signature of the instructor required. most popular culture, and our own popular the English department office, Rabb 144, Usually offered every year. culture. It examines desire, concealment, before the first meeting of class. Staff sex, and romance, as well as the role that A workshop for poets willing to explore and literature plays in creating and upsetting develop their craft through intense reading ENG 99a The Senior Honors Essay communities, defining racial and ethnic in current poetry, stylistic explorations of Signature of the instructor and the categories. Film screenings. Usually offered content, and imaginative stretching of undergraduate advising head required. every third year. Will be offered in the fall forms. Usually offered every year. Will be For seniors interested in qualifying for of 2003. offered in the fall of 2003. departmental honors when combined with a Mr. Plotz Ms. Broumas or Ms. Lilley 10th course for the major. Usually offered every year. ENG 106b American Utopias ENG 109b Directed Writing: Short Fiction Staff [ hum ] [ hum ] Introduction to utopian fiction of 19th- Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit ENG 99b The Senior Honors Essay century America. Readings include classic basis. Signature of the instructor required. Signature of the instructor and the sources and utopian novels by major Students will be selected after the undergraduate advising head required. authors (Melville, Hawthorne, Twain). submission of sample writing, preferably For seniors interested in qualifying for Some consideration will also be given to three pages of fiction. The deadline for departmental honors when combined with a actually existing successful utopian submission of application manuscripts to 10th course for the major. Usually offered communities. Usually offered every third the English department office, Rabb 144, is every year. year. Last offered in the spring of 2003. the day before the first meeting of class. Staff Ms. Irr A workshop for motivated students with a serious interest in pursuing writing. ENG 99d The Senior Honors Thesis ENG 107a Caribbean Women Writers Student stories will be copied and Signature of the instructor and the [ hum ] distributed before each class meeting. undergraduate advising head required. About eight novels of the last two decades Students’ stories, as well as exemplary For seniors interested in qualifying for (by Cliff, Cruz, Danticat, Garcia, published short stories, will provide the departmental honors with a thesis. Usually Kempadoo, Kincaid, Mittoo, Nunez, Pineau, occasion for textual criticism in class. offered every year. Powell, or Rosario), drawn from across the Usually offered every year. Will be offered Staff region, and read in dialogue with popular in the fall of 2003. culture, theory, and earlier generations of Ms. McCorkle male and female writers of the region. (100-199) For Both Undergraduate Usually offered every third year. Will be ENG 111b Post-Colonial Theory and Graduate Students offered in the spring of 2004. [ hum ] Ms. Smith Seminar in postcolonial theory with relevant background texts, with an ENG 107b Literature and Healing emphasis on the specificity of its ENG 101a Studies in Popular Culture ENG 101a Studies in Popular Culture [ hum ] theoretical claims. Readings from Spivak, [ hum ] Signature of the instructor required. Said, Bhabha, Appiah, Mudimbe, Marx, A critical analysis of contemporary culture, Students wishing to enroll should submit a Lenin, Freud, Derrida, Césaire, and Fanon, including television, film, video, statement of intent on why they would like among others. Usually offered every second advertising, and popular literature. to enroll to the English department office, year. Last offered in the spring of 2001. Combines applied criticism and theoretical Rabb 144, before the first meeting of class. Mr. Sanders readings. Will be offered in the spring of Examines the various intersections between 2004. literature (especially poetry) and healing: In ENG 114b Gender and the Rise of the Mr. Morrison what ways may the disquieted physical Novel in England and France body be fully represented in language? How [ hum ] ENG 101b Cyber-Theory ENG 101b Cyber-Theory might creative self-expression abet the Explores the emergence of the novel as a [ hum ] healing process, by way of such rich modern genre in the 18th century, asking How has the Internet changed the practice tensions as between authorship/authority, why the novel arises first in England and of writing? How can writing map identity/immunity, and confession/ France, and what the new genre’s cyberspace? What happens to the personnel confinement? Works by Broumas, Dory, preoccupations with women and gender can of writing (author, reader, publisher) in Hacker, Holub, O. Fisher, Gurin, Kincaid, teach us about European society, culture, context of cybernetics? Immerses students Kumin, Lorde, L. Perillo, Plath, Sexton, A. and literature. Usually offered every second in critical and utopian theories of cyber Shapiro, W.C. Williams, and others. Usually year. Will be offered in the spring of 2004. textuality. Usually offered every second offered every year. Last offered in the fall of Ms. Lanser year. Last offered in the spring of 2002. 2001. Ms. Irr Mr. Campo ENG 115b Fictions of Liberty: England in a Revolutionary Age ENG 103a John Donne and the ENG 103a John Donne and the [ hum ] Metaphysical Poets Metaphysical Poets Explores the intersections of English [ hum ] literature and European revolution in Examines the poetry of Donne and his tumultuous period from 1789 to 1848. contemporaries, including George Herbert, Reading fiction, autobiography, poetry, and Richard Crashaw, and Andrew Marvell. philosophy, the class considers textual These “metaphysical poets” will be read practices that tested the political, religious, alongside critical accounts by Samuel ethnic, sexual, social, and economic limits Johnson, T.S. Eliot, and others. Usually of English liberties. Usually offered every offered every third year. Last offered in the second year. Last offered in the spring of spring of 2003. 2002. Ms. Targoff Ms. Lanser English and American Literature 147

ENG 117a Directed Studies in Current ENG 121b Contemporary Literary Theory ENG 127a The Novel in India Literature [ hum ] [ nw hum ] [ hum ] Recommended preparation: A course in the Survey of novel and short story of the Writing sample and signature of the history of criticism. Indian subcontinent, their formal instructor required. A broad consideration of recent issues and experiments in context of nationalism and Examines prose and poetry that enlarge our trends in literary theory, primarily post-colonial history. Authors may include perception of the possible, in literature and formalist, structuralist, psychoanalytic, Tagore, Anand, Manto, Desani, Narayan, the imagination. Looks at sentence patterns poststructuralist, feminist, and Marxist. Desai, Devi, Rushdie, Roy, Mistry, and as choreographers, write under their Usually offered every third year. Will be Chaudhuri. Usually offered every second influence, and generate a hands-on offered in the spring of 2004. year. Last offered in the spring of 2003. understanding of literary invention and the Staff Mr. Sanders exciting generosities of form. Usually offered every third year. Last offered in the ENG 122a The Medieval World ENG 127b Migrating Bodies, Migrating fall of 2000. [ hum ] Texts Ms. Broumas A survey of early English literature. The [ hum ] first half will be Old English in translation: Beginning with the region’s representation ENG 119a Directed Writing: Fiction charms, riddles, elegiac poetry, the epic as a tabula rasa, examines the textual and [ hum ] poem Beowulf. The second half will consist visual constructions of the Caribbean as Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit of selected Canterbury Tales in Middle colony, homeland, backyard, paradise, and basis. Signature of the instructor required. English and some literature in translation: Babylon, and how the region’s migrations Those wishing to enroll should submit a lyric poetry, the Gawain Romance, and have prompted ideas about evolution, sample of their fiction writing to the Malory’s Morte d’Arthur. Usually offered hedonism, imperialism, nationalism, and English department office, Rabb 144, before every year. Last offered in the spring of diaspora. Usually offered every second year. the first meeting of class. May be repeated 2001. Last offered in the fall of 2001. for credit. Staff Ms. Smith An advanced fiction workshop for students primarily interested in the short story. ENG 124a Reason and Ridicule: The ENG 129a Writing Workshop Students are expected to compose and Literature of Britain in the Enlightenment [ hum ] revise three stories, complete typed [ hum ] Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit critiques of each other’s work weekly, and Writers’ concern with “criticism” broadly basis. Signature of the instructor required. discuss readings based on examples of understood, including literary criticism in Students must submit a three- to five-page various techniques. Usually offered every Johnson and Sheridan, skeptical writing sample to the English department year. Will be offered in the fall of 2003. historiography in Gibbon and Hume, and office, Rabb 144, before the first meeting of Ms. McCorkle or Ms. Phillips political criticism in Paine and class. Wollstonecraft. Debates on the A workshop for writers. Usually offered ENG 119b Directed Writing: Poetry effectiveness and propriety of wit in every second year. Last offered in the [ hum ] reasoned argument and political debate. summer of 2003. Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit Usually offered every third year. Last Mr. Coroniti basis. Signature of the instructor required. offered in the spring of 2000. Students wishing to enroll should submit a Staff ENG 129b Understanding the Screenplay: A writing sample consisting of three poems to Workshop the English department office, Rabb 144, ENG 125b Romanticism II: Byron, Shelley, [ hum ] before the first meeting of class. May be and Keats Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit repeated for credit. [ hum ] basis. Signature of the instructor required. For those who wish to improve as poets This course may not be repeated for credit Students must submit a three- to five-page while broadening their knowledge of poetry. by students who have taken ENG 135b in writing sample to the English department Half the semester will be devoted to previous years. ENG 25a (Romanticism I) is office, Rabb 144, before the first meeting of prosody, with formal exercises as not a prerequisite for this course. class. preparation for later “free-assignments.” The “younger generation” of Romantic Examines the screenplay as a unique Student’s poems will be discussed in a poets. Byron, Shelley, and Keats continue literary genre, and investigates the “workshop” format with emphasis on and react against poetic, political, and differences between writing stories in prose revision. Remaining time will cover philosophical preoccupations and positions and writing for the screen. The course is assigned readings and issues of craft. of their immediate elders. Examines their divided into three equal parts: reading Usually offered every second year. Last major works, as well as Mary Shelley’s theory; reading published screenplays; offered in the spring of 2003. Frankenstein. Usually offered every second editing a published story into screenplay Staff year. Will be offered in the spring of 2004. format. Usually offered every fourth year. Mr. Burt, Mr. Flesch, or Ms. Quinney Last offered in the summer of 2003. ENG 121a Sex and Culture Mr. Coroniti [ hum ] ENG 126a American Realism and An exploration of the virtually unlimited Naturalism, 1865-1900 ENG 131b Feminist Theory explanatory power attributed to sexuality in [ hum ] [ hum ] the modern world. “Texts” include Focuses on how some of the central Introduces students to critical feminist examples from literature, film, television, American Realists and Naturalists set about thought by focusing closely each year on a pornography, sexology, and theory. Usually representing and analyzing American social different specific “problem,” for example: offered every second year. Last offered in and political life. Topics include the 19th- and 20th-century modernity as the spring of 2003. changing status of individuals, classes, and manifested in the development of Mr. Morrison genders, among others. Usually offered globalizing capitalism, the racialized every third year. Will be offered in the democratic citizen and wage work; our spring of 2004. understanding of cultural production; Mr. Burt or Ms. Chu debates about the nature, applications, and constitution of feminist theory. Usually offered every second year. Last offered in the fall of 2002. Ms. Chu 148 English and American Literature

ENG 132b Chaucer I ENG 142b Introduction to Old Norse ENG 151a Lesbian and Gay Studies: Desire, [ hum ] [ hum ] Identity, and Representation Prerequisite: ENG 10a or ENG 11a. Designed to introduce students to the [ hum ] In addition to reading Chaucer’s major linguistic structure of Old Norse, to Recommended preparation: WMNS 5a, work, The Canterbury Tales, in Middle develop reading proficiency in Old Norse, WMNS 105a, ENG 131b or another English, pays special attention to situating and to introduce students to some of the foundation course in feminist/gender The Tales in relation to linguistic, literary, classic texts of the Old Norse sagas, theory. and social developments of the later Middle especially those with parallels to Beowulf. Historical, literary, and theoretical Ages. No previous knowledge of Middle Usually offered every third year. Last perspectives on the construction and English required. Usually offered every offered in the fall of 2000. performance of homosexual identities. How second year. Last offered in the fall of 2002. Ms. Maling has the sin that cannot be named been Ms. Campbell overdetermined as the margin against ENG 143a Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama which heterosexuality defines itself? How ENG 133a Advanced Shakespeare [ hum ] has that margin provided a space for radical [ hum ] A study of the revenge tradition in the work praxis? Usually offered every second year. Signature of the instructor required. of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The Last offered in the fall of 2002. An intensive analysis of a single play or a problem of blood-revenge will be looked at Mr. King small number of Shakespeare’s plays. as a historical phenomenon in Renaissance Usually offered every second year. Last society and as a social threat transformed ENG 151b Theater/Theory: Investigating offered in the spring of 2002. into art in such dramatists as Shakespeare, Performance Mr. Flesch Marlowe, Kyd, Marston, Tourneur, [ hum ] Chapman, and Webster. Usually offered Recommended preparation: A course in ENG 134a The Woman of Letters, every fourth year. Last offered in the spring dramatic literature and familiarity with 1600-1800 of 1999. theatrical production. [ hum ] Staff The theater, etymologically, is a place for Women writers from Behn to Austen; viewing. Theory, etymologically, begins novels, plays, pamphlets, diaries, and ENG 144b The Body as Text: Castiglione to with a spectator and a viewing. Reading letters. The culture’s attitudes to women Locke theories of theater and performance against writers; women’s attitudes to literary [ hum ] paradigmatic dramatic texts and documents achievement and fame, women’s resistance A library-intensive course. of social performance, speculation and to stereotypes, and women’s complicity in How are our bodies the material for our spectatorship are reviewed. Usually offered the promulgation of images of the “good presentations of self and our interactions every second year. Last offered in the spring woman.” Usually offered every fourth year. with others? Examines contemporary of 2003. Last offered in the fall of 1999. theories and histories of the body against Mr. King Staff literary, philosophical, political, and performance texts of the 16th- through the ENG 152b Arthurian Literature ENG 137a Primal Pictures 18th-centuries. Usually offered every third [ hum ] [ hum ] year. Last offered in the spring of 2002. Prerequiste: ENG 10a or HUM 10a Signature of the instructor required. Mr. King or ENG 11a. Students wishing to enroll should submit a A survey of (mostly) medieval treatments of writing sample consisting of fiction, a film ENG 147a Film Noir the legendary material associated with King or book review, or critical writing on [ hum ] Arthur and his court, in several genres: contemporary fiction. A study of classics of the genre (The Killers, bardic poetry, history, romance, prose Novels to be read feature finely etched The Maltese Falcon, Touch of Evil) as well narrative. Usually offered every second portrayals of change within the primal as more recent variations (Chinatown, year. Will be offered in the spring of 2004. family structure, specifically death or loss Bladerunner). Readings include source Ms. Campbell of a parent and resulting transformation in fiction (Hemingway, Hammett) and essays the family gestalt. Films of four of the in criticism and theory. Usually offered ENG 155a Provincialism and Imperialism, novels read will be screened. Usually every third year. Last offered in the fall of 1870-1930 offered every second year. Last offered in 2002. [ hum ] the spring of 2003. Mr. Flesch or Ms. Quinney Explores ideas about the local, regional, Ms. Phillips national, international, and cosmopolitan in ENG 147b South African Literature and Empire-era “Greater Britain.” What role ENG 137b Studies in Modernism Apartheid does literature play in the global movement [ hum ] [ hum ] of British and “colonized” culture? Includes An attempt to explore the concept of Survey of South African literature, its Emily Eden, R.D. Blackmore, Hardy, Flora “modernism” through an intensive reading engagement with apartheid and its Steel, Conrad, Woolf, Waugh, and E.M. of seminal poems, novels, and plays. aftermath: fiction, drama, poetry. Authors Forster. Usually offered every second year. Focuses on the formal innovations of may include Paton, Millin, Louw, Last offered in the spring of 2003. modernism and their relation to various Gordimer, Fugard, Head, Serote, Sepamla, Mr. Plotz ideological and political issues. Usually Matshoba, Coetzee, and Wilcomb. Usually offered every second year. Last offered in offered every second year. Last offered in ENG 156b The James Family the fall of 2002. the fall of 2002. [ hum ] Ms. Chu or Mr. Morrison Mr. Sanders Focuses on William, Henry, and Alice James, and on the different ways they ENG 140a Satire and its Uses approach the representation of human [ hum ] interaction, thought, perception, and Examines the forms and methods of suffering in their novels, philosophical satirical fiction and poetry, with emphasis essays, and diary. Pays particular attention on writers from classical Greece and Rome, to their intellectual and aesthetic contexts. Britain, and the United States. Usually offered every third year. Last Staff offered in the spring of 2000. Mr. Flesch or Ms. Quinney English and American Literature 149

ENG 157a Contemporary Poetry ENG 167a Women Writers and the Avant- ENG 180a The Modern American Short [ hum ] Garde Story An introduction to recent poetry in English, [ hum ] [ hum ] dealing with a wide range of poets, as well Close reading of American women writers Signature of the instructor required. as striking and significant departures from who work in an experimental vein: Stein, Close study of American short fiction the poetry of the past. Looks, where Barnes, Nin, Bowles, diPrima, Acker, masterworks. Students read as writers possible, at individual volumes by Anderson, Hejinian, and others. Situates write, discussing solutions to narrative representative authors. Usually offered writers in relation to movements such as obstacles, examining the consequences of every third year. Last offered in the spring cubism, surrealism, existentialism, alternate points of view. Studies words and of 2003. performance art, and language poetry. syntax to understand and articulate how Ms. Quinney Usually offered every third year. Last technical decisions have moral and offered in the spring of 2001. emotional weight. Usually offered every ENG 157b American Women Poets Ms. Irr second year. Last offered in the summer of [ hum ] 2001. Prerequisite: ENG 10a or HUM 10a or ENG ENG 171a History of Literary Criticism Staff 11a. Enrollment limited to 20. [ hum ] Students imagine meanings for terms like This course may not be repeated for credit ENG 181a Making Sex, Performing Gender “American” and “women” in relation to by students who have taken ENG 71a in [ hum ] poetry. After introductory study of Anne previous years. Prerequisite: WMNS 5a or equivalent Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, and Emily Explores major documents in the history of recommended. Dickinson, readings of (and about) women criticism from Plato to the present. Texts Gender and sexuality studied as sets of whose work was circulated widely, will be read as representative moments in performed traits and cues for interactions especially among other women poets, will the history of criticism and as documents of among social actors. Readings explore the be selected from mainly 20th-century self-sufficient literary and intellectual possibility that differently organized gender writers. Usually offered every second year. interest. Usually offered every second year. and sexual practices are possible for men Last offered in the spring of 2002. Last offered in the spring of 2003. and women. Usually offered every third Ms. Campbell Mr. Morrison or Ms. Quinney year. Will be offered in the spring of 2004. Mr. King ENG 161a Introduction to Cultural Studies ENG 173a Spenser and Milton [ hum ] [ hum ] ENG 187a American Fiction since 1945 Introduces theories of culture—what it is, A course on poetic authority: the poetry of [ hum ] who has it, where it is located, when it authority and the authority of poetry. Readings of contemporary post-realist and changes, and why it endures. Emphasis on Spenser and Milton will be treated post-modernist fiction. Authors and themes analyzing assumptions and consequences of individually, but the era they bound will be vary but always include major figures such theories, with short papers applying major examined in terms of the tensions within as Nabokov, Pynchon, DeLillo. Usually concepts and a scavenger hunt. Usually and between their works. Usually offered offered every second year. Last offered in offered every third year. Last offered in fall every second year. Last offered in the spring the spring of 2003. of 2000. of 2003. Ms. Irr Ms. Irr Mr. Flesch ENG 197b Testimony, Law, Literature ENG 165b Victorian Poetry and its Readers ENG 174b Eighteenth-Century Novel [ hum ] [ hum ] [ hum ] A study of the cross-disciplinary linkages Studies how poetry was written and read The early development of the novel in between literature, law, and psychanalysis, during the last time poetry held a England, with particular attention to through works of witnessing such as slave prominent role in England’s public life. The contemporary theories of the novel and the narrratives, testimonio, and holocaust course centers on Tennyson’s career as poet relationship between the literary history of narrative, as well as testimony from South laureate, but also gives full attention to genre and the social history of class. Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Robert Browning’s work. The course also Authors include Defoe, Richardson, Commission. Possible authors: Levi, surveys the work of E. B. Browning, the Pre- Fielding, Sterne, and Burney. Usually Lanzmann, Prince, Menchu, Krog, Wigmore, Raphaelites, and others, and concludes with offered every second year. Last offered in Freud. Usually offered every second year. the poetry of Hardy and of the early Yeats. the spring of 2001. Last offered in the spring of 2002. Usually offered every fourth year. Last Ms. Lanser Mr. Sanders offered in the fall of 1999. Staff ENG 177a Hitchcock’s Movies [ hum ] (200 and above) Primarily for ENG 166b Whitman, Dickinson, and A study of thirteen films covering the Graduate Students Melville whole trajectory of Hitchcok’s career, as [ hum ] well as interviews and critical responses. Prerequisite: ENG 10a or HUM 10a. Usually offered every second year. Will be Seminars Poetry of Whitman, Dickinson, Emerson, offered in the fall of 2003. Seminars ENG 200a Methods of Literary Study and Melville, with representative poems of Mr. Flesch ENG 200a Methods of Literary Study Whittier, Bryant, Longfellow, Poe, Required of all first-year graduate students. Sigourney, and Tuckerman. Usually offered Usually offered every year. Will be offered every third year. Last offered in the spring in the fall of 2003. of 2000. Ms. Irr or Mr. Morrison Mr. Burt ENG 202a Thomas Malory: Fiction before Novels Reading of the complete Works of Malory, also known as the Morte D’Arthur, as the postponed climax of high and late medieval romance and the early triumph of a nascent English fiction in the modern vernacular. Usually offered every third year. Last offered in the spring of 2002. Ms. Campbell 150 English and American Literature

ENG 203a Religion and Literature in ENG 208a American Fins de Siecles ENG 227a Studies in Modernism Renaissance England Centuries’ ends have always been periods of An exploration of the concept of the Explores the relationship between religion intense cultural ferment, with great modern through an intensive reading of The and literature from the English Reformation expectations often vying with apprehension Waste Land, Ulysses, Between the Acts, and through the Civil War. Readings include and despair. Considers works produced in Endgame. Usually offered every third year. poetry by Wyatt, Donne, Herbert, Milton, the United States in the 1790s, 1890s, and Last offered in the spring of 2003. and Marvell; plays by Marlowe and 1990s. Authors include Franklin, Crane, Mr. Morrison Shakespeare; and religious tracts by St. Jewett, Morrison, Updike. Usually offered Augustine, Luther, Calvin, and Hooker. every third year. Last offered in the fall of ENG 230b Feminist Theory Usually offered every third year. Last 2002. This course, primarily devoted to literary offered in the fall of 2002. Mr. Gilmore theory, will also pay some attention to Ms. Targoff feminist scholarship in related disciplines, ENG 213a Milton including history, anthropology, and legal ENG 204a American Romanticism in Milton’s poetry and selected prose, with studies. Usually offered every second year. Poetry and Fiction particular attention to Paradise Lost and its Last offered in the fall of 2002. Romanticism as a philosophical movement, intellectual, historical, and literary Ms. Chu a poetic movement, and fictional style. contexts. Usually offered every third year. Essays and poetry of Emerson and Thoreau’s Last offered in the fall of 2001. ENG 231a Seminar in Performance Studies: Walden. Major poetry of Whitman and Mr. Flesch Performing the Early Modern Self Dickinson (and some Melville). The Scarlet Examines contemporary performance theory Letter, selected stories of Poe, Moby Dick. ENG 213b Alternative Worlds: Utopia, against everyday and formal performances Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Science, and Gender of the Restoration and 18th-century Alcott’s Transcendental Wild Oats. Usually This course may not be repeated for credit England. Investigates agents’ negotiations offered every third year. Last offered in the by students who have taken it as part of the of social and personal space in plays, spring of 2003. Radcliffe Women’s Consortium. diaries, novels, and treatises. Usually Mr. Burt Explores the intersections between two offered every third year. Last offered in the early modern developments: the new genre spring of 2002. ENG 206b Surface and Depth: Explorations of Utopia, and the new ideas about the goals Mr. King in American Legibility and methods of natural inquiry identified Examines the American commitment to with the “Scientific Revolution.” Authors ENG 232b Chaucer external and internal legibility or include Christine de Pizan, Raleigh, Bacon, A survey of the historically pivotal literary accessibility. Readings span the nation’s Campanella, Catalina de Erauso, Cyrano de career of Chaucer, with emphasis on The history from the Federalist Papers to Bergerac, Margaret Cavendish, Octavia Canterbury Tales. Chaucer’s works as Ellison’s Invisible Man. Topics include the Butler, Thomas More, Francis Godwin. social analysis and critique, from the point Americanization of cinema and Usually offered every third year. Will be of view of a bourgeois outsider in an psychoanalysis in the 20th century. Usually offered in the spring of 2004. aristocratic milieu; Chaucer’s medieval offered every third year. Last offered in the Ms. Campbell genres and their transformation into fall of 2000. vehicles of early modern sensibility; Mr. Gilmore ENG 215a Representation, Embodiment, medieval relations of secular literature to and Portability in Victorian Literature its audience(s); orality, literacy, and the ENG 207a Topics in African Literature What is the relationship between aesthetics book. Usually offered every fourth year. Concentrating on Africa, and drawing and cultural authority? Places major 19th- Last offered in the spring of 1999. relavant comparisons, this course prepares century writers in the context of the rise of Ms. Campbell graduate students pursuing research in realism, capitalism, empire, and emerging postcolonial literatures and theory. Possible democratic debates about representation. ENG 233a Shakespeare Seminar topics: orature and literature; Will include Scott, Carlyle, Dickens, Marx, An intensive reading of Shakespeare’s work multilingualism and translation; Bronte, Mill, Eliot, and Conrad; theoretical from a theoretical and historical viewpoint. colonialism and apartheid; Négritude and texts include Habermas, Foucault, Kittler, Usually offered every third year. Last pan-Africanism, gender and human rights; and Arendt. Usually offered every third offered in the fall of 2000. testimony, truth and, reconciliation. year. Will be offered in the fall of 2003. Mr. Flesch Usually offered every second year. Last Mr. Plotz offered in the spring of 2002. ENG 234a Writing British Women 1660- Mr. Sanders ENG 216b The James Family 1800: Critical Inquires Focuses on the powerful and competing Through an engagement with women’s ENG 207b Fiction of the American South ideas of human nature and social writing, with social configurations of Examines fiction of the era of interaction that Henry William and Alice gender, and with 21st-century practices, modernization and desegregation. Readings James articulated and embodied, in their explores new issues in 18th-century literary include novels by Robert Penn Warren, writing considered on its own and in the and cultural studies and grapples with Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, Ernest intense familial interaction that so affected thorny problems in feminist theory and Gaines, Margaret Walker, Caroline Gordon, their thinking. Usually offered every third scholarship. Usually offered every fourth Ellen Glasgow, and William Faulkner. year. Will be offered in the spring of 2004. year. Last offered in the spring of 2003. Usually offered every fourth year. Last Mr. Flesch Ms. Lanser offered in the spring of 1999. Mr. Burt ENG 217a American Literature after Television Examines how and why the project of American literature changes after the advent of television. Readings include theoretical essays on technology and representation, and literary texts by Nabokov, Mailer, Didion, DeLillo, Bernstein, Reed, Pynchon, Silko, and Wallace. Usually offered every third year. Last offered in the fall of 2001. Ms. Irr English and American Literature 151

ENG 236a American Poetry of the ENG 247b Contemporary Poetry Medieval Literature Nineteenth Century A study of major recent poetry in English. A graduate seminar on American poetry of Authors include Merrill, Ashbery, Heaney, COML 102a the 19th century, including Dickinson, Ammons, and Glück. Usually offered every Love in the Middle Ages Whitman, Emerson, Melville, Tuckerman, third year. Will be offered in the fall of the “Fireside poets” (Longfellow, Whittier, 2003. 20th-Century British or American Lowell, Bryant), the “Nightingales” Ms. Quinney Literature (Sigourney and Oakes-Smith), religious and patriotic lyrics, and much more. Usually ENG 280a Making it Real: Tactics of AAAS 133b offered every third year. Last offered in the Discourse The Literature of the Caribbean spring of 2001. An investigation of the discursive Mr. Burt realization of bodies and agents. Queries COML 120a representational practices as modes of Art for the People ENG 237a Reading the Black Transnation agency, problematizing identity and Fiction, theory, film of what is variously differences and negotiating hegemony. Our COML 147b termed the African diaspora or the Black lenses: performance and cultural studies, The City: Metropolitan Glory and Urban Atlantic. Aquaints students with major and visual studies, literature and theory, and Alienation lesser-known figures, concepts, and historiography. Usually offered every fourth strategies. Usually offered every third year. year. Will be offered in the spring of 2004. COML 165a Will be offered in the fall of 2003. Mr. King Reading, Writing, and Teaching Across Ms. Smith Cultures ENG 352a and b Directed Research ENG 240a Sex and Culture Specific sections for individual faculty NEJS 172a Studies in the cultural construction and members as requested. Permission of the Women in American Jewish Literature representation of the self and its sexuality; director of graduate studies required. focuses primarily on the various Staff RECS 154a technologies of self-knowledge and self- Nabokov fashioning (literary and otherwise) in the ENG 402d Dissertation Research modern West. Usually offered every third Specific sections for individual faculty THA 150a year. Last offered in the spring of 2001. members as requested. The American Drama Since 1945 Mr. Morrison Staff Miscellaneous Literary Subjects ENG 240b The Ethics of Representation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Fiction Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Fiction Cross-Listed Courses COML 125a Examining exemplary works of 19th- and Introduction to East Asian Literature 20th-century fiction, the class studies the ways in which narrative construction Courses in Literary Genre COML 160b (plotting, rhetoric, narrative voice, Narrative in Literature and Film ideological motivation) represent personal COML 150b and social reality. Raises questions about Japanese Women Writers LING 8b the relationship between the real and the The Grammar of English ethical, between what is and what ought to COML 180a be, and how our own ethical concerns The Theater of the Absurd complicate our understanding of the novels we read. Usually offered every third year. NEJS 172a Last offered in the fall of 2000. Women in American Jewish Literature Staff Courses in Literary Theory and Literary Criticism

COML 198a Feminist Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies

PHIL 12b Philosophy and Literature